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Events
August 6 - Pope Urban VIII is elected to the Papacy.
Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Osman II (1618-1622) to Murat IV (1623-1640).
The Safavids recapture Baghdad.
England first colonizes Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Wilhelm Schickard invents his "Calculating Clock", and early mechanical calculator.
Procopius's long-lost Secret History is rediscovered in the Vatican Library.
Giambattista Marini publishes his long poem Adone.
Tommaso Campanella publishes The City of the Sun.
Johannes Rudbeck founds Rudbeckianska Gymnasiet, first gymnasium in Sweden.
The Avedis Zildjian Company begins making cymbals at Constantinople.
Second Thanksgiving celebrated at Plymouth Plantation.
Erotomania is first mentioned in a psychiatric treatise.
Births
January 9 - Empress Meisho of Japan
June 19 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher
August 5 - Antonio Cesti, composer (data of baptism) (+ 1669)
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (+ 1673)
Sir William Petty
Deaths
March 19 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord
July 4 - William Byrd, composer
July 8 - Pope Gregory XV
12 November - Josaphat Kuncevyc, archbishop from Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, key figure in Union of Brest
Andrea Andreani, Italian engraver
William Camden, historian
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