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=== January&ndash; March ===
* [[January 12]] &ndash; [[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]] &ndash; [[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]] &ndash; [[Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor]] dies, leaving the Holy Roman Empire without an official leader, to deal with the [[Thirty Years' War|Bohemian Revolt]].