January 12 –
Şehzade Mehmed, the 15-year old half-brother of Ottoman Sultan
Osman II, is put to death by hanging on Osman's orders. Before dying, Mehmed prays aloud that Osman's reign as Sultan be ruined.
January 18 – The Dutch East India Company formally names its fortress at Jayakarta in Indonesia, calling it
Batavia. Upon the independence of the Dutch East Indies as Indonesia in 1945, Batavia will be renamed Jakarta.
January 24 – Twelve days after the murder of Prince Mehmed on orders of Sultan Osman II, Constantinople is hit by bitter winter weather, leading to rioting by persons who believe that the punishment of Osman is the will of Allah.
January 28 –
Pope Paul V (Camillo Borghese) dies at the age of 70 after 15 years as Pontiff.
September 2 – The
Battle of Khotyn begins as a force of more than 120,000 Ottoman troops attacks the Moldavian city of Khotyn. Despite the Ottomans' numerical superiority, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth wins the battle and forces a surrender five weeks later. [5]
October 9 (September 29 O.S.) – The
Pilgrims of
Plymouth Colony and
Wampanoags celebrate a harvest feast (three days), later regarded as the First Thanksgiving, noted for the temporary peace between the English and the local Indians. The celebration is believed by later historians to have coincided with
Michaelmas, observed on September 29 by the Anglican Communion on the calendar used in England at the time.
The
Dutch East India Company sends 2,000 soldiers, under the command of
Jan Pieterszoon Coen, to the
Banda Islands, in order to force the local inhabitants to accept the Dutch trade monopoly on the lucrative
nutmeg, grown almost exclusively on those islands. The soldiers proceed to massacre most of the 15,000 indigenous inhabitants.
^Zaide, Gregorio (1949). Philippine Political and Cultural History: The Philippines Since Pre-Spanish Times. Vol. 1. Manila: R.P. Garcia Publishing Company. p. 348.
^Lund, Emil Ferdinand Svitzer (1897).
"Leonora Christina, Grevinde Ulfeld". Danske malede portraetter: en beskrivende katalog (in Danish). Vol. 2. Copenhagen: Gyldendal. pp. 193–203.
January 12 –
Şehzade Mehmed, the 15-year old half-brother of Ottoman Sultan
Osman II, is put to death by hanging on Osman's orders. Before dying, Mehmed prays aloud that Osman's reign as Sultan be ruined.
January 18 – The Dutch East India Company formally names its fortress at Jayakarta in Indonesia, calling it
Batavia. Upon the independence of the Dutch East Indies as Indonesia in 1945, Batavia will be renamed Jakarta.
January 24 – Twelve days after the murder of Prince Mehmed on orders of Sultan Osman II, Constantinople is hit by bitter winter weather, leading to rioting by persons who believe that the punishment of Osman is the will of Allah.
January 28 –
Pope Paul V (Camillo Borghese) dies at the age of 70 after 15 years as Pontiff.
September 2 – The
Battle of Khotyn begins as a force of more than 120,000 Ottoman troops attacks the Moldavian city of Khotyn. Despite the Ottomans' numerical superiority, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth wins the battle and forces a surrender five weeks later. [5]
October 9 (September 29 O.S.) – The
Pilgrims of
Plymouth Colony and
Wampanoags celebrate a harvest feast (three days), later regarded as the First Thanksgiving, noted for the temporary peace between the English and the local Indians. The celebration is believed by later historians to have coincided with
Michaelmas, observed on September 29 by the Anglican Communion on the calendar used in England at the time.
The
Dutch East India Company sends 2,000 soldiers, under the command of
Jan Pieterszoon Coen, to the
Banda Islands, in order to force the local inhabitants to accept the Dutch trade monopoly on the lucrative
nutmeg, grown almost exclusively on those islands. The soldiers proceed to massacre most of the 15,000 indigenous inhabitants.
^Zaide, Gregorio (1949). Philippine Political and Cultural History: The Philippines Since Pre-Spanish Times. Vol. 1. Manila: R.P. Garcia Publishing Company. p. 348.
^Lund, Emil Ferdinand Svitzer (1897).
"Leonora Christina, Grevinde Ulfeld". Danske malede portraetter: en beskrivende katalog (in Danish). Vol. 2. Copenhagen: Gyldendal. pp. 193–203.