March 12 » Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Society of Jesus, are canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.
March 22 » Jamestown massacre: Algonquians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War.
April 22 » The Capture of Ormuz by the East India Company ends Portuguese control of Hormuz Island.
June 24 » Battle of Macau: The Dutch make a failed attempt to capture Macau.
December 18 » Portuguese forces score a military victory over the Kingdom of Kongo at the Battle of Mbumbi in present-day Angola.
December 22 » The town of Bucaramanga, Colombia, is founded by Andres Paes de Sotomayor.
February 29 » Abel Tasman's second Pacific voyage begins.
March 18 » The Third Anglo-Powhatan War begins in the Colony of Virginia.
May 25 » Ming general Wu Sangui forms an alliance with the invading Manchus and opens the gates of the Great Wall of China at Shanhaiguan pass, letting the Manchus through towards the capital Beijing.
May 27 » Manchu regent Dorgon defeats rebel leader Li Zicheng of the Shun dynasty at the Battle of Shanhai Pass, allowing the Manchus to enter and conquer the capital city of Beijing.
July 2 » English Civil War: Battle of Marston Moor.
November 23 » John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.
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