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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 23]] &ndash; [[Thirty Years' War]]: [[Sweden]] and [[Kingdom of France|France]] sign the [[Treaty of Bärwalde]], a military alliance in which France provides funds for the Swedish army invading northern Germany.<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=PA50|year=1991|publisher=American Philosophical Society|isbn=978-0-87169-192-7|pages=50}}</ref>
* [[February 5]] &ndash; Puritan leader [[Roger Williams]] arrives in [[Boston]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Reuben Aldridge Guild|title=Footprints of Roger Williams|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gd94AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA7|year=1886|publisher=Tibbitts & Preston|pages=7}}</ref>
* [[February 16]] &ndash; The [[Reval Gymnasium]] is founded in [[Tallinn]], [[Estonia]], by Swedish king [[Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden|Gustavus II Adolphus]].
* [[February 20]] &ndash; A fire breaks out in [[Westminster Hall]], but is put out before it can cause serious destruction.<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) p29</ref> 
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[Ambrósio I of Kongo|Ambrósio I Nimi a Nkanga]], the ruler of the [[Kingdom of Kongo]] (in what is now [[Angola]]) dies after a reign of five years.
* [[March 10]] &ndash; [[Al Walid ben Zidan]] becomes the new [[Sultan of Morocco]] upon the death of [[Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik II]].
* [[March 20]] &ndash; The siege of the Protestant German city of [[Magdeburg]] by the [[Catholic League (German)|Catholic League]] begins and lasts for more than two months before the city falls and the inhabitants are massacred.