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.
May 15 » The Peace of Münster is ratified, by which Spain acknowledges Dutch sovereignty.
June 15 » Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
August 20 » Battle of Lens: French Duc d'Enghien defeats Spaniards
August 28 » The Siege of Colchester ends when Royalists Forces surrender to the Parliamentary Forces after eleven weeks, during the Second English Civil War.
October 24 » The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years' War.
December 6 » Colonel Thomas Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England, in order for the King's trial to go ahead; came to be known as "Pride's Purge".
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