January 30 » An estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in England are destroyed by massive flooding, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths.
March 10 » Susenyos I defeats the combined armies of Yaqob and Abuna Petros II at the Battle of Gol in Gojjam, making him Emperor of Ethiopia.
April 26 » English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
May 14 » Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
May 24 » One hundred English settlers disembark in Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in America.
October 5 » Assassins sent by the Pope attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist Paolo Sarpi.
March 16 » The Long Parliament of England is dissolved so as to prepare for the new Convention Parliament.
April 4 » Declaration of Breda by King Charles II of Great Britain promises, among other things, a general pardon to all royalists for crimes committed during the English Civil War and the Interregnum.
April 23 » Treaty of Oliva is established between Sweden and Poland.
May 29 » English Restoration: Charles II is restored to the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland.
October 17 » The Nine regicides who signed the death warrant of Charles I of England are hanged, drawn and quartered.
November 28 » At Gresham College, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.
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