Abel Tasman's Second Voyage
Feb 29 Abel Tasman sets out on his second exploratory expedition for the VOC to the southern Pacific from Banda, in the Moluccas, with three ships (will chart northern coast of New Holland / Australia) [1]
- Mar 7 Massachusetts establishes 1st two-chamber legislature in colonies
- Mar 14 England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island)
- Mar 19 200 members of Peking imperial family and court commit suicide in loyalty to the Emperor
- Mar 31 Pope Urbanus VIII and Duke of Parma sign Peace of Ferrara
- Apr 29 Farm leader Li Zicheng becomes Emperor of China and flees Peking
- May 6 Johan Mauritius resigns as governor of Brazil
- May 23 Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists
- May 27 Battle of Shanhai Pass: Li Zicheng's army defeated by combined Ming and Manchu force
- May 28 Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of the Earl of Derby (English Civil War)
- Jun 11 Florentine scientist Evangelista Torricelli describes his invention of the mercury barometer in 1643 in a letter to Michelangelo Ricci
- Jul 2 Battle of Marston Moor, North Yorkshire: Parliamentary forces under Lords Fairfax and Manchester defeat royalists led by Prince Rupert
- Sep 2 Robert Devereux's Parliamentarian infantry surrenders to Royalist forces in Battle of Lostwithiel, Cornwall, during English Civil War
Conquest of Sas of Gen
Sep 5 Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange conquers Sas van Gent and absorbs it into the Dutch Republic
Pope Innocent X
Sep 15 Giambattista Pamfili replaces Pope Urban VIII as Innocent X
- Nov 19 First protestant ministry society in New England
Areopagitica
Nov 23 "Areopagitica", a pamphlet by John Milton decrying censorship, is published
- Dec 4 First European peace congress opens in Munster
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