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== Events == <onlyinclude> === January– March === * [[January 12]] – [[James I of England]]'s [[Banqueting House, Whitehall]] in London is destroyed by fire.<ref name=Fires>"Fires, Great", in ''The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance'', Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p. 29</ref> [[Inigo Jones]] is commissioned to design a replacement. * [[February 14]] – [[Earthquake]] flattens the town of [[Trujillo, Peru]], killing hundreds in the town and causing landslides in the surrounding countryside killing hundreds more.<ref>{{cite book|title=Early Earthquakes of the Americas|author1=Robert L. Kovach|author2=Robert Louis Kovach|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2004}}</ref> * [[March 20]] – [[Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor]] dies, leaving the Holy Roman Empire without an official leader, to deal with the [[Thirty Years' War|Bohemian Revolt]]. === April–June === * [[April 18]] – [[Battle of Sarhu]]: [[Manchu people|Manchu]] leader [[Nurhaci]] is victorious over the [[Ming dynasty|Ming]] forces.<ref>{{cite book|title=Oriens extremus: Zeitschrift für Sprache, Kunst und Kultur de Länder des Fernen Ostens|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eh8tAQAAIAAJ|year=1981|publisher=O. Harrassowitz|page=32|language=en}}</ref> * [[May 8]] – The [[Synod of Dort]] has its final meeting. * [[May 13]] ** [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[Politician|statesman]] [[Johan van Oldenbarnevelt]] is executed in [[The Hague]], after having been convicted of [[treason]]. ** [[Anne of Denmark]], queen consort of England, is [[Death and funeral of Anne of Denmark|buried]] at [[Westminster Abbey]].<ref>[[Jemma Field]], ''Anna of Denmark: The material and visual culture of the Stuart courts, 1589-1619'' (Manchester, 2020), p. 202.</ref> * [[May 30]] – [[Jan Pieterszoon Coen]], Governor General of the Dutch East Indies, conquers [[History of Jakarta|Jayakarta]], and renames it [[History of Jakarta|Batavia]]. * [[June 10]] – [[Thirty Years' War]] – [[Battle of Sablat]]: Protestant forces are defeated.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Richard Ernest Dupuy|author2=Trevor Nevitt Dupuy|title=The Encyclopedia of Military History from 3500 B.C. to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I5wOCyiM-mQC|year=1986|publisher=Harper & Row|isbn=978-0-06-181235-4|page=534|language=en}}</ref> * [[June 21]] – [[Dulwich College]] founded by [[Edward Alleyn]], in [[Dulwich]], London.<ref>{{cite book|author=Schools inquiry commission|title=Report of the commissioners|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8zMIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA109|year=1868|pages=109|language=en}}</ref> === July–September === * [[July 30]] – In [[Jamestown, Virginia]], the first English-speaking representative assembly in the Americas, the [[Virginia General Assembly]] (later named [[House of Burgesses]]), convenes for the first time.<ref>{{cite web | title=The First Legislative Assembly, Historic Jamestowne | website=Colonial National Historical Park | publisher = U.S. National Park Service | date=2019-07-22 | url= https://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/the-first-legislative-assembly.htm | access-date= 2019-08-03}}</ref> * [[August 5]] – [[Thirty Years' War]]: [[Battle of Věstonice]] – [[Bohemia]]n forces defeat the Austrians. * [[August 10]] – The [[Treaty of Angoulême]] ends the civil war between [[Louis XIII of France]] and his mother, [[Marie de' Medici]]. * [[August 20]] – A [[First Africans in Virginia|group "twenty and odd" enslaved Africans]], onboard the [[privateer]] ship ''[[White Lion (privateer)|White Lion]]'' (the first in the state of Virginia), are landed at [[Old Point Comfort|Point Comfort]] in [[Colony of Virginia|colonial Virginia]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/08/24/slaverys-bitter-roots-in-1619-20-and-odd-negroes-arrived-in-virginia/|title= Slavery's bitter roots: In 1619, '20 And odd Negroes' arrived in Virginia |last=Brown|first= DeNeen L|date=August 24, 2018|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=January 9, 2019}}</ref><ref>[https://historicjamestowne.org/history/the-first-africans/ "The First Africans"]. ''Jamestowne Rediscovery''. Historic Jamestowne. Retrieved August 18, 2019.</ref> * [[August 26]] – [[Frederick V of the Palatinate]] is elected [[King of Bohemia]] by the states of the Bohemian Confederacy. * [[August 28]] – [[Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor|Ferdinand II]], Archduke of Austria and King of Bohemia, is elected [[Holy Roman Emperor]] unanimously by the [[prince-elector]]s. * [[September 5]] – In the course of a revolt against the Habsburg Empire, Prince [[Gabriel Bethlen]] of [[Principality of Transylvania (1570–1711)|Transylvania]] (now in Romania) conquers [[Košice|Kassa]] (now Košice in Slovakia) with the help of [[George I Rákóczi]]. * [[September 7]] – [[Gaj Singh of Marwar|Gaj Singh Rathore]] becomes the new Raja of [[Marwar]] (within the Mughal Empire) at [[Jodhpur]] in what is now the Indian state of Rajasthan, succeeding his father, [[Sur Singh]]. * [[September 9]] – The coronation of Ferdinand II takes place in Vienna. * [[September 18]] (7 Thout 1336 on the [[Coptic calendar]]) – Abba Yoannis El-Mallawany of Egypt becomes the new head of the Coptic Christian Church as [[Pope John XV of Alexandria]] succeeding the late [[Pope Mark V of Alexandria|Pope Mark V]], who died on September 11. === October–December === * [[October 8]] – [[Thirty Years' War]] – The [[Treaty of Munich (1619)|Treaty of Munich]] is signed by Ferdinand II and [[Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Kenneth Meyer Setton|title=Venice, Austria, and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XN51y209fR8C&pg=PA34|year=1991|publisher=American Philosophical Society|isbn=978-0-87169-192-7|pages=34|language=en}}</ref> * [[November 10]] – While stationed along the Danube river with Bavarian troops, [[René Descartes]], according to his biographer [[Adrien Baillet]], has a series of dreams giving him the idea of applying the mathematical method to philosophy. * [[November 16]] – [[William Parker School]], [[Hastings]], England, is founded by the will of Reverend William Parker. * [[November 23]] – [[Thirty Years' War]]– [[Battle of Humenné]]: Polish [[Lisowczycy]] troops assist the Holy Roman Emperor by defeating a Transylvanian force, forcing [[Gabor Bethlen]] to raise his siege of [[Vienna]]. * [[December 4]] – Thirty-eight [[Colony|colonists]] from [[Kingdom of England|England]] disembark in [[Berkeley Hundred]], [[Virginia]] from the ''Margaret'' of Bristol and have a day of celebration to give thanks to [[God]], in what is considered by some historians to be the first [[Thanksgiving]] in the Americas. === Date unknown === * [[Jahangir]] grants a British mission important commercial concessions at [[Surat]], on the west coast of India. * [[Salé Rovers]] declare the port of [[Salé]] on the [[Barbary Coast]] to be the [[Republic of Salé]], independent of the [[Sultan of Morocco]], with the Dutch-born [[Barbary corsair|corsair]] [[Jan Janszoon]] as president. * The Danish–Dutch [[History of whaling|whaling]] settlement of [[Smeerenburg]] is founded in [[Svalbard]]. * An expedition in [[Sri Lanka]], led by [[Phillippe de Oliveira|Filipe de Oliveira]], deposes and executes the last Jaffna king ([[Cankili II]]), putting an end to the [[Jaffna kingdom|Jaffna Kingdom]]. * [[Garcia de Nodal expedition|A Spanish expedition]] sails around [[Tierra del Fuego]], mapping the coast and discovering the [[Diego Ramírez Islands]].</onlyinclude>
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