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January 1 - In the Gregorian calendar, January 1 is declared as the first day of the year, instead of March 25.
February 8 - King James I of England disbands the English Parliament.
March 22 - In the Jamestown massacre, Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population).
Étienne Brûlé is the first European to see Lake Superior.
Portugal loses control of the island of Ormus, after 107 years.
Albertus Magnus is beatified by the Roman Catholic Church.
Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha sinks off the Florida Keys, while carrying copper, silver, gold, tobacco, and indigo. (Wreck discovered 1985).
Births
January 15 - Molière, French playwright
November 18 - King Charles X of Sweden
Deaths
January 23 - William Baffin, explorer
February 11 - Alfonso Fontanelli, composer
May 20 - Osman II, sultan of Turkey
Melchior Adam - German divine and biographer.
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