January 27 » Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31.
January 31 » Gunpowder Plot: Four of the conspirators, including Guy Fawkes, are executed for treason by hanging, drawing and quartering, for plotting against Parliament and King James.
April 10 » The Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.
April 12 » The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of English and Scottish ships.
December 19 » The ships Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery depart England carrying settlers who founded, at Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States.
December 20 » The Virginia Company loads three ships with settlers and sets sail to establish Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
May 5 » King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.
August 28 » Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn.
October 26 » The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Covenanter Scotland and King Charles.
December 1 » End of the Iberian Union: Portugal acclaims as King João IV of Portugal, ending 59 years of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain and the end of the rule of the Philippine Dynasty.
February 14 » The Mapuches launch coordinated attacks against the Spanish in Chile beginning the Mapuche uprising of 1655.
March 25 » Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
April 23 » The Siege of Santo Domingo begins during the Anglo-Spanish War, and fails seven days later.
September 8 » Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge, making it the first time the city is captured by a foreign army.
December 18 » The Whitehall Conference ends with the determination that there was no law preventing Jews from re-entering England after the Edict of Expulsion of 1290.
December 27 » Second Northern War/the Deluge: Monks at the Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa are successful in fending off a month-long siege.
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