March 8 » Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
May 15 » Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).
May 23 » The Second Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years' War.
July 31 » Maurice, Prince of Orange disbands the waardgelders militia in Utrecht, a pivotal event in the Remonstrant/Counter-Remonstrant tensions.
September 18 » The twelfth baktun in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar begins.
October 29 » English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
January 28 » Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts.
June 10 » Signing of the Treaty of Compiègne between France and the Netherlands.
August 12 » The president of Louis XIII of France's royal council is arrested, leaving Cardinal Richelieu in the role of the King's principal minister.
August 13 » The French king Louis XIII appoints Cardinal Richelieu as prime minister.
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