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January - Galileo observes Neptune, but mistakes it for a star and so is not credited with its discovery.
February 7 - An Assembly of the Russian Empire elects Mikhail Romanov to be Tsar of Russia, and establishes the Romanov Dynasty.
June 29 - Fire destroys London's Globe Theatre
Francesco Andreini's L'Adamo is published.
King James I of Scotland successfully mediates the Peace of Knäred treaty between Denmark and Sweden.
The New River was opened, to supply London with drinking water from Hertfordshire
Adriaen Block's ship Tyger is destroyed by fire, forcing him and his crew to spend the winter on Manhattan
James I of England comdemns duels in his proclamation Against Private Challenges and Combats
Ottoman Empire invades Hungary
Locust swarm destroys La Camarque, France
Births
André Le Nôtre, French landscape gardener (died 1700)
Claude Perrault, French architect (died 1688)
Henry Vane, English politician (died 1662)
Richard Crashaw, English religious poet (died 1649)
François de la Rochefoucauld, French writer (died 1680)
Deaths
January 28 - Thomas Bodley, English scholar and diplomat (born 1545)
April 27 - Robert Abercromby
September 8 - Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer
September 15 - Thomas Overbury, English poet (born 1581)
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