Manchu invaders of China's
Fujian province capture Spanish Dominican priest
Francisco Fernández de Capillas, torture him and then behead him. Capillas will be canonized more than 350 years later in 2000 in the Roman Catholic Church as one of the
Martyr Saints of China.
February 11 – England's parliament passes stricter laws against performance of stage plays, providing for demolition of seats in theatres, imprisonment for actors and fines for spectators.[2] The vote comes six days after the King's Men Players are arrested at the Cockpit Theatre during an illegal performance of Rollo Duke of Normandy.
February 28 –
King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway dies after a reign of almost 60 years without having named a successor. The Rigsraadet (Royal Council) and the Estates of the Realm will debate the matter for more than four months before deciding on July 6 to select Christian's oldest surviving son to become
King Frederick III.
March 31 – A major earthquake strikes
Van in Ottoman Armenia.[3]
May 12 – Construction of the
Kaunghmudaw Pagoda is completed in the Kingdom of Burma on the 6th waning of Kason, 1010, near the end of the reign of King
Thalun. Hmannan Yazawin[4]
May 15 – The
Peace of Münster is ratified by both the United Netherlands and the Spanish Empire.
May 16 – England's Commonwealth Army massacres 70
Cornish royalists at
Penzance, leading to
a rebellion against England's Parliamentarians.
June 1 – The
Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
June 20 – Russian explorer
Semyon Dezhnyov departs from Srednekolymsk to begin the first recorded voyage through the
Bering Strait, between Asia and North America, and arrives in September.[5]
July–September
July 19 – The last major battle of the
Thirty Years' War, the
Battle of Prague ends in a Swedish victory after three days of fighting over the army of
Bohemia. The troops loot the
Prague Castle and steal many of Bohemia's most valuable artifacts.
Manchu invaders of China's
Fujian province capture Spanish Dominican priest
Francisco Fernández de Capillas, torture him and then behead him. Capillas will be canonized more than 350 years later in 2000 in the Roman Catholic Church as one of the
Martyr Saints of China.
February 11 – England's parliament passes stricter laws against performance of stage plays, providing for demolition of seats in theatres, imprisonment for actors and fines for spectators.[2] The vote comes six days after the King's Men Players are arrested at the Cockpit Theatre during an illegal performance of Rollo Duke of Normandy.
February 28 –
King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway dies after a reign of almost 60 years without having named a successor. The Rigsraadet (Royal Council) and the Estates of the Realm will debate the matter for more than four months before deciding on July 6 to select Christian's oldest surviving son to become
King Frederick III.
March 31 – A major earthquake strikes
Van in Ottoman Armenia.[3]
May 12 – Construction of the
Kaunghmudaw Pagoda is completed in the Kingdom of Burma on the 6th waning of Kason, 1010, near the end of the reign of King
Thalun. Hmannan Yazawin[4]
May 15 – The
Peace of Münster is ratified by both the United Netherlands and the Spanish Empire.
May 16 – England's Commonwealth Army massacres 70
Cornish royalists at
Penzance, leading to
a rebellion against England's Parliamentarians.
June 1 – The
Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
June 20 – Russian explorer
Semyon Dezhnyov departs from Srednekolymsk to begin the first recorded voyage through the
Bering Strait, between Asia and North America, and arrives in September.[5]
July–September
July 19 – The last major battle of the
Thirty Years' War, the
Battle of Prague ends in a Swedish victory after three days of fighting over the army of
Bohemia. The troops loot the
Prague Castle and steal many of Bohemia's most valuable artifacts.