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Events
April 9 - Spanish troops capture Calais
July 14 - King Dominicus (Domingos) Corea was behaded by the Portugese in Colombo Ceylon
September 17 - The Spanish capture Amiens
September 20 - Diego de Montemayor founded the city of Monterrey, Mexico.
First water closet, by Sir John Harrington, is installed in a manor near Kelston in England
Births
January 13 - Jan van Goyen, painter (+ 1656).
March 31 - René Descartes, French philosopher.
June 23 - Johan Banér, Swedish soldier in the Thirty Years War.
June 29 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan
August 16 - Frederick V, elector palatine of the Rhine Palatinate and briefly titled King of Bohemia.
August 19 - Princess Elizabeth Stuart of Scotland, later Queen consort Elizabeth of Bohemia.
September - James Shirley, English dramatist.
Thomas Francis, prince of Carignano.
Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet.
Praise-God Barebone, English leather-seller and Fifth Monarchy man.
Moses Amyraut, French Protestant theologian and metaphysician.
Michael I of Russia.
Pietro da Cortona, Italian painter.
Deaths
January 28 - Sir Francis Drake, English explorer, soldier.
February 17 - Friedrich Sylburg, German classical scholar.
Blaise de Vigenère, Cryptographer, diplomat, scientist, and author.
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