The world's oldest newspaper, Haarlem, published its first paper in the Netherlands.
English forces invaded and captured the Spanish colony of Jamaica.
Freed black man Richard Johnson was granted 100 acres of land in the state of Virginia.
King Louis XIV of France was coronated.
Oliver Cromwell dissolved England's Rump Parliament.
Jan van Riebeeck departed for Cape of Good Hope to found the first permanent European settlement.
The Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi, a fountain, was unveiled in Rome.
Henry Robinson opened the first dating agency in the world.
The Wars of Castro ended when Pope Innocent X and his forces destroyed the Italian city of Castro.
The Second Battle of Newbury was fought in the English Civil War.
The Chongzhen Emperor died by suicide during a peasant rebellion.
East India Company's Captain William Mynors becomes the first European to sail by Christmas Island.
Oliver Cromwell's forces from Cambridgeshire and forces from Nottingham met near Gainsborough, ready to battle the following day in the Battle of Gainsborough.
The US recorded its first tornado.
The first legal divorce of the American colonies was granted to Anne Clarke.
The first European explorer discovered New Zealand.
Abel Tasman became the first European to discover Tasmania and named it Van Diemen's Land.
The first major battle of the First English Civil War began near Edge Hill, Warwickshire.
The Long Parliament ordered all theaters to close in London, including The Globe Theatre, which was once partly owned by William Shakespeare.
King Charles I and the Queen fled from London to Oxford, Hampton Court.
King Charles I attacked the House of Commons.
The Richard Fairbanks Tavern and Post Office in Massachusetts became the first American colonial post office.
The first printing press was set up in New England, US.
American colonies recorded their first astronomical event after observing a lunar eclipse.
The Great Colonial Hurricane hit the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the Jamestown Settlement in New England, USA.
The Catholic Church forces Galileo Galilei to renounce his heliocentric world view.
Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for his trial before the Roman Inquisition.
The Holy Roman Empire appointed a new supreme military commander, Albrecht von Wallenstein.
Using Johannes Kepler's predictions, French scientist Pierre Gassendi became the first person to witness Mercury's transit between the Earth and the Sun.
Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan I decided to begin construction of the Taj Mahal.
Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, arrived from England in the Massachusetts Bay Colony to become a minister in a Boston church.
The village of Shawmut in Massachusetts adopted the name Boston.
Boston, Massachusetts, was founded by Governor Winthrop.
Charles I dissolved the Parliament of England, which was the start of the eleven-year period known as the Personal Rule.
The Spanish government became bankrupt.
St. Peter's Basilica in The Vatican City was consecrated, becoming the world's largest Christian basilica.
English parliament was dissolved by King James I of England after a disagreement about his son Charles marrying Princess Maria of Spain.
Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony forbade game playing on Christmas.
The Dutch Republic granted a charter for New Netherlands to the Dutch West India Company.
Samoset became the first Native American to make contact with the Plymouth colony.
Thirty Native Americans attacked Myles Standish and a group of eighteen settlers. This became known as the 'First Encounter.'
English military officer Myles Standish lead 16 men to explore Cape Cod.
The Mayflower, filled with Puritan Pilgrims, spotted land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
The first merry-go-round debuted at a fair in Philippopolis, Turkey.
Spanish Catholic priest Joseph Calasanz started the first public and free school in Europe.
English poet William Shakespeare died at the age of 52.
American Indian princess Pocahontas married English tobacco planter, John Rolfe.
A fire destroyed Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London.
William Shakespeare had his first known performance of 'The Tempest.'
English navigator Henry Hudson, his teenage son, and seven supporters set adrift aboard a tiny boat on the Hudson Bay.
