Editing 1626 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 7]] &ndash; [[Polish–Swedish War (1625–1629)|Polish-Swedish War]]: [[Battle of Wallhof]] in [[Latvia]] &ndash; [[Gustavus Adolphus]], King of [[Sweden]], defeats a Polish army. 
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[Peter Minuit]] sails from [[Texel]] Island for America's [[New Netherland]] colony, with two ships of Dutch emigrants.
* [[February 2]] &ndash; King [[Charles I of England]] is crowned, but without his wife, [[Henrietta Maria]], who declines to participate in a non-Catholic ceremony.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Eugene M. Waith|title=Patterns and Perspectives in English Renaissance Drama|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r46Ze0M0TUwC&pg=PA180|year=1988|publisher=University of Delaware Press|isbn=978-0-87413-325-7|pages=180|language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 5]] &ndash; The [[Huguenot]] rebels and the French government sign the [[Treaty of Paris (1626)|Treaty of Paris]], ending the second [[Huguenot rebellion]].
* [[February 10]] &ndash; [[Battle of Ningyuan]]: In [[Xingcheng]] in [[China]], after an 8-day battle, [[Ming dynasty]] commander [[Yuan Chonghuan]] defeats the much larger force of [[Manchu people|Manchu]] leader [[Nurhaci]], who dies soon after and is succeeded by [[Huang Taiji]].
* [[February 11]] &ndash; Emperor [[Susenyos of Ethiopia]] and Patriarch [[Afonso Mendes]] declare the primacy of the Roman See over the [[Ethiopian Church]], and [[Roman Catholicism]] the state religion of [[Ethiopia]].
* [[March 5]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Monzón]] is signed between France and Spain to end the [[Valtellina War]] and the [[First Genoese-Savoyard War]]. 
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[Ambrósio I of Kongo|Ambrósio I Nimi a Nkanga]] becomes the new monarch of [[Kingdom of Kongo|Kongo]] (in what is now [[Angola]]) after the overthrow of [[Garcia I of Kongo|Garcia I Mvemba a Nkanga]], restoring the Kwilu dynasty to power. 
* [[March 15]] &ndash; Portugal declares war on [[Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba|Queen Nzinga]] of the [[Ndongo|Kingdom of Ndongo]], located in what is now Angola.{{fact|date=March 2025}} A [[dam failure]] causes the sudden [[1626 Potosí flood|flooding of the mining city of Potosí]] in present-day Bolivia leading to the death of thousands and the massive release of toxic [[mercury (element)|mercury]] into the environment.<ref name=frances>{{Cite journal |title=Les ruptures de barrages dans le monde: un nouveau bilan de Potosi (1626, Bolivie) |journal=La Houille Blanche |last=Gioda |first=Alain |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gioda-Alain/publication/279971878_Dam_collapses_in_the_world_A_new_estimation_of_the_Potosi_disaster_1626_Bolivia/links/5c08c2fc4585157ac1ab137c/Dam-collapses-in-the-world-A-new-estimation-of-the-Potosi-disaster-1626-Bolivia.pdf?origin=publication_detail&_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIiwicGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uRG93bmxvYWQiLCJwcmV2aW91c1BhZ2UiOiJwdWJsaWNhdGlvbiJ9fQ&__cf_chl_tk=WAHZbFSO.KE0i8QkGaqGOZhfU5MDzpalYWjMO4mu0VI-1741358538-1.0.1.1-CXkEhP0cZ6WpuD29tqP9XfmEbJNI_MhQzd96DUhbBO4 |pages=165-170 |last2=Serrano |first2=Carlos |last3=Forenza |first3=Ana |trans-title=Dam collapses in the world: a new estimation of the Potosi disaster (1626, Bolivia) |language=French|year=2002|issue=4/5}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Historia de la minería andina boliviana (siglos XVI–XX)|last=Serrano Bravo|first=Carlos|url=https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/6EF6AA797C1749E905257EFF005C493F/$FILE/Historia_de_Miner%C3%ADa_Andina_Boliviana.pdf|year=2004|location=Potosí, Bolivia|language=es|pages=39, 90}}</ref>