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September 6 - English emigrants on the Mayflower depart from Plymouth, England for the future New England and arrive at the end of the year. The Mayflower Compact is signed on November 11.
November 8 - The Battle of White Mountain
Two officers of the British East India Company attempt to claim the Table Mountain region (in present-day South Africa) for England, but fail.
Shogun Tokugawa Hidetada restores Osaka Castle. Its current appearance dates from this remodelling.
René Descartes witnesses the Battle of White Mountain
Modern violin
Witch hunts begin in Scotland
Cornelius Drebbel builds an undersea boat
J.P.Donnet, teacher of deaf children in the Spanish court, creates sign alphabet
Bonesetting becomes a science
Births
February 16 - Friedrich Wilhelm, the "Great Elector" of Brandenburg, Duke of Prussia (d. 1688)
October 31 - John Evelyn, English diarist and writer (d. 1706)
Deaths
March 1 - Thomas Campion, poet and composer
May 16 - William Adams, English navigator and Japanese samurai
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