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May 13 - Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after having been accused of treason.
July 30 - In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
16 November - foundation of William Parker School, Hastings by the will of Rev William Parker.
December 4 - Thirty-eight colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (this is considered by some to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas).
Slaves are first brought to the Americas.
Ferdinand II elected as Holy Roman Emperor.
England establishes its first outpost in India.
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth reaches the height of its territorial extent.
Births
February 24 - Charles Le Brun, French painter and art theorist
March 6 - Cyrano de Bergerac, soldier, poet
Deaths
March 4 - Anne of Denmark, Consort of James I of England
March 13 - Richard Burbage, actor
March 20 - Mathias, Holy Roman Emperor
May 13 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman
August 30 - Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord
Hans Lippershey, Dutch lensmaker (* 1570(?))
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