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.
February 24 » L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, receives its première performance.
May 24 » One hundred English settlers disembark in Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in America.
September 4 » The Flight of the Earls takes place in Ireland.
September 14 » Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland.
October 5 » Assassins sent by the Pope attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist Paolo Sarpi.
January 17 » Emperor Susenyos I of Ethiopia surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat; his army reportedly kills 12,000 Oromo at the cost of 400 of his men.
May 14 » The Protestant Union, a coalition of Protestant German states, is founded to defend the rights, land and safety of each member against the Catholic Church and Catholic German states.
June 3 » Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
July 3 » Québec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.
August 24 » The first official English representative to India lands in Surat.
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