- Jan 3 Dutch Premier Van Joost speaks of "Hostage rights of Aemstel"
- Jan 3 Schouwburg Theater, the 1st in Amsterdam, opens
- Jan 5 Petition in Recife Brazil leads to closing of their 2 synagogues
- Feb 28 Scottish Presbyterians sign National Convent, Greyfriars, Edinburgh
- Mar 3 Duke Bernard of Saxe-Weimar occupies Rheinfelden
- Mar 22 Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Mar 29 1st permanent white settlement in Delaware (Swedish Lutherans)
- May 7 Cornelis Gooyer establishes the first permanent Dutch settlement on Mauritius, then uninhabited
- May 12 Emperor Shah Jahan commissions construction of the Red Fort at Shahjahanabad, Mughal Empire (now Dehli, India)
- May 13 Construction of the Red Fort begins at Shahjahanabad, Mughal Empire (now Dehli, India)
- May 14 Admiral Adam Westerwolt conquers Batticaloa, Ceylon
- Jun 1 1st earthquake recorded in US, at Plymouth, Massachusetts
- Jun 25 Lunar eclipse is 1st astronomical event recorded in the American Colonies
- Aug 9 Jonas Bronck of Holland becomes 1st European settler in Bronx
- Sep 1 -4] French queen-mother Maria de' Medici visits Amsterdam
- Dec 17 French and Swedish troops occupy Breisach on the Rhine
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