Jan 01 Papal Chancery adopts Jan 1 as beginning of the year (was Mar 25)

Jan 07 Germany &Transylvania sign Peace of Nikolsburg

Jan 01 Papal Chancery adopts January as beginning of the year

Jan 06 Pope Gregory XV forms Congregatio the Propagande Fide

Jan 07 Germany &Transylvania sign Peace of Nikolsburg

Jan 15 The birth of Molière, French writer

Feb 08 King James I disbands the English parliament

Mar 12 Ignatius of Loyola declared a saint

Mar 22 In the first major massacre of European colonists by Native Americans, Algonquian Indians led by Opechancanough, chief of the Pamunkey, slaughter 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia--nearly a third of the settlement’s total population