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."
January 14 » The "Fundamental Orders", the first written constitution that created a government, is adopted in Connecticut.
March 13 » Harvard College is named after clergyman John Harvard.
April 14 » Imperial forces are defeated by the Swedes at the Battle of Chemnitz. The Swedish victory prolongs the Thirty Years' War and allows them to advance into Bohemia.
August 22 » Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.
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