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The Netherlands establish a trading colony at Kaohsiung on Taiwan.
Thirty Walloon families settle in the New Netherland colony.
Oslo is destroyed by fire. When rebuilt by Christian IV, it would be renamed Christiania.
Claudio Monteverdi publishes Tancredi e Clorinda.
Jean Louis Guez de Balzac publishes his Lettres.
Bernardo de Balbuena publishes El Bernardo.
Santa Rosalia makes a miraculous appearance during a plague in Palermo.
Kalmia latifolia (mountain laurel) first recorded in America.
Jakob Bartsch records the constellation Camelopardalis.
Dr Challoner's Grammar School is founded.
The Palace of Versailles is first built, as a hunting lodge.
Chateau Cheverny begins construction.
Pembroke College, Oxford founded.
Japanese Shogun expels Spanish from the land and severs trade with the Philippines
Mail service begins in Denmark
University founded in Bolivia
War between England and Spain
Cornelius Drebbel discover gases
Births
July - George Fox, Quakers founder (+ 1691)
August 25 - Père François de La Chaise (+ 1709)
October 30 - Paul Pellisson, French author (+ 1693)
Koxinga, Chinese military leader (+ 1662)
Deaths
December 5 - Gaspard Bauhin, botanist
December 26 - Simon Marius, German astronomer
Francesco Andreini, Italian actor
Gaspard Bauhin, botanist
Category:1624
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