February 17 » On his way to be burned at the stake for heresy, at Campo de' Fiori in Rome, the philosopher Giordano Bruno has a wooden vise put on his tongue to prevent him continuing to speak.
February 19 » The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
August 5 » The Gowrie Conspiracy against King James VI of Scotland (later to become King James I of England) takes place.
October 6 » Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance, beginning the Baroque period.
October 21 » Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara and becomes shōgun of Japan.
December 31 » The British East India Company is chartered.
July 4 » The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France (now Quebec, Canada).
August 18 » Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France.
September 6 » Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nördlingen, the Catholic Imperial army defeats Swedish and German Protestant forces.
September 12 » A gunpowder factory explodes in Valletta, Malta, killing 22 people and damaging several buildings.
October 11 » The Burchardi flood kills around 15,000 in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany.
November 11 » Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery.
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