May 18 Delegates from four New England colonies meet in Boston to form a confederation

May 13 Battle at Grantham: English parliamentary armies beat royalists

May 14 Louis XIV becomes King of France at age 4 upon the death of his father, Louis XIII

May 19 Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut &New Harbor form United Colonies of New England

May 13 Heavy earthquake strikes Santiago Chile; kills 1/3 of population

May 19 Battle at Rocroi/Allersheim French army destroys Spanish army

May 13 Battle at Grantham English parliamentary armies beat royalists

May 19 Battle at Rocroi/Allersheim: French army destroys Spanish army

Jan 23 Sir Thomas Fairfax takes Leeds for the Parliamentarians

Jan 04 The birth of Sir Isaac Newton, British scientist

Jan 06 Near Montreal, Quebec Paul de Chomedy, Sieur de Maisonneuve, plants a wooden cross on Mount Royal to offer thanks to God for saving the settlement of Ville Marie from flooding.

Jan 21 Dutch mariner Abel Tasman discovers Tonga in the Pacific

Jan 06 Near Montreal, Quebec Paul de Chomedy, Sieur de Maisonneuve, plants a wooden cross on Mount Royal to offer thanks to God for saving the settlement of Ville Marie from flooding.

Feb 25 Dutch US colonists kill Algonquin-Indians

Jul 05 First recorded tornado in US (Essex County, Massachusetts)