May 13 » Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after being convicted of treason.
June 10 » Thirty Years' War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
July 30 » In Jamestown, Virginia, the first Colonial European representative assembly in the Americas, the Virginia General Assembly, convenes for the first time.
August 28 » Election of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor.
November 7 » Elizabeth Stuart is crowned Queen of Bohemia.
December 4 » Thirty-eight colonists arrive at Berkeley Hundred, Virginia. The group's charter proclaims that the day "be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God."
March 1 » Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine), becomes the first incorporated city in the United States.
April 15 » Irish Confederate Wars: A Confederate Irish militia is routed in the Battle of Kilrush when it attempts to halt the progress of a Royalist Army.
May 30 » From this date all honors granted by Charles I of England are retroactively annulled by Parliament.
November 13 » First English Civil War: Battle of Turnham Green: The Royalist forces withdraw in the face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to take London.
November 24 » Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).
December 13 » Abel Tasman is the first recorded European to sight New Zealand.
May 17 » Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River.
June 17 » French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the Mississippi River and become the first Europeans to make a detailed account of its course.
November 11 » Second Battle of Khotyn in Ukraine: Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets made by Kazimierz Siemienowicz are successfully used.
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