May 17 Earl Johann Tilly attacks Maagdenburg

May 18 English colony Massachusetts Bay grants puritarian voting right

May 18 John Winthrop is elected first governor of Massachusetts

May 20 German army under earl Johann Tilly conquerors Maagdenburg

May 30 France/Maximilian van Bavarian signs Accord of Fontainebleau

Jan 23 France &Sweden sign anti-German Treaty of Bärwald

Feb 08 Charles I grants Cape Breton Island to Robert Gordon of Lochinvar and son Robert

Feb 05 Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams arrives in Boston from England

Feb 08 King Louis XIII 1601-1643 names Charles de La Tour Governor and Lieutenant-General of New France and Acadia

Nov 07 Pierre Gassendi observes transit of Mercury predicted by Kepler

Nov 03 First Protestant Missionary arrives in America

Dec 06 The first predicted transit of Venus (Kepler) is observed

Dec 16 Mount Vesuvius, Italy erupts, destroys 6 villages & kills 4,000

Aug 19 The birth of John Dryden, English poet, dramatist and satire writer