Mar 01 Battle at Smolensk; Polish King Wladyslaw IV beats Russians

Mar 04 Proprietor Samuel Cole opens the first tavern in Boston

Mar 13 Académie Française opens

Mar 03 The first tavern in Boston opens, it is not Cheers

Mar 25 Lord Baltimore founded Catholic colony of Maryland

Feb 19 Battle at Smolensk Polish king Wladyslaw IV beats Russians

Feb 25 Irish captain Walter Devereaux kills duke Wallenstein

Feb 18 Ferdinand II orders commander Albrecht von Wallenstein, execution

May 04 Johan van Walbeecks fleet departs to West-Indies

May 31 US colony Massachusetts Bay annexes Maine colony

Jan 24 Emperor Ferdinand II declares Albrecht von Wallenstein a traitor