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.
March 8 » Treaty of Roskilde: After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars (1655–1661), Frederick III, the King of Denmark–Norway is forced to give up nearly half his territory to Sweden to save the rest.
June 3 » Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.
June 25 » Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Rio Nuevo during the Anglo-Spanish War.
September 3 » The death of Oliver Cromwell; Richard Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England.
September 17 » The Battle of Vilanova is fought between Portugal and Spain during the Portuguese Restoration War.
October 29 » Second Northern War: Naval forces of the Dutch Republic defeat the Swedes in the Battle of the Sound.
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