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Events
January 20 - Mathias becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
Antonius Magirus's Koock-boeck ofte Familieren kevken-boeck is published.
Popular uprising in Moscow expels Polish troops.
Trial of the witches in Pendle, Lancashire is held.
December 28 - Galileo Galilei was the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune when it was in conjunction with Jupiter, yet he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star because of its extremely slow motion along the ecliptic. Neptune was not truly discovered until 1846, about 234 years after Galileo first sighted it with his telescope.
Births
Thomas Fairfax, English general, commander in chief of the Parliamentary army in the English Civil War (d. 1671)
Samuel Butler, English satirist (d. 1680)
Anne Bradstreet, English-born American poet (d. 1672)
Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French colonial missionary and first governor of Montréal (d. 1676)
Antoine Arnauld, French theologian (d. 1694)
James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Scottish soldier (d. 1650)
Deaths
January 20 - Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor
May 24 - Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English statesman and minister (b. 1563)
August 12 - Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer (b. c. 1555)
November 6 - Henry, Prince of Wales
Ahmed I - Ottoman emperor
Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian poet (b. 1538)
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