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.

Feb 05 First US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut

Nov 19 First Protestant ministry society in New England

May 06 Johan Mauritius resigns as Governor of Brazil

May 23 Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists

Jul 02 Battle of Marston Moor; Parliamentary forces defeat royalists

Jul 02 William Gascoigne introduced telescopic sights, is killed at 24

Jan 18 Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's first UFO sighting

Jan 24 Battle at Nantwich Cheshire Parliamentary armies win

Oct 14 The birth of William Penn, English Quaker who gave his name to Pennsylvania