Historical Events In 1644
May 06 Johan Mauritius resigns as Governor of Brazil
May 23 Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists
Jan 18 Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's first UFO sighting
Jan 24 Battle at Nantwich Cheshire Parliamentary armies win
Feb 05 First US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut
Nov 19 First Protestant ministry society in New England
Oct 14 The birth of William Penn, English Quaker who gave his name to Pennsylvania
Jul 02 Battle of Marston Moor; Parliamentary forces defeat royalists
Jul 02 William Gascoigne introduced telescopic sights, is killed at 24
Mar 19 200 members of Peking imperial family/court commit suicide
Mar 31 Pope Urbanus VIII and duke of Parma signs Peace of Ferrara
Mar 14 England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island)
Mar 07 Massachusetts establishes first 2-chamber legislature in colonies
Mar 30 Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve 1612-1676 defeats a large band of marauding Iroquois on the site of the Place d'Armes; aided by force of 30 settlers; they had massacred several habitant families.

