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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Galileo Galilei]], having been summoned to [[Rome]] on orders of [[Pope Urban VIII]], leaves for [[Firenze|Florence]] for his journey. His carriage is halted at Ponte a Centino at the border of Tuscany, where he is quarantined for 22 days because of an outbreak of the plague. <ref>William R. Shea and Mariano Artigas, ''Galileo in Rome: The Rise and Fall of a Troublesome Genius'' (Oxford University Press, 2004)</ref> 
* [[February 6]] &ndash; the formal coronation of [[Władysław IV Vasa]] as [[King of Poland]] takes place at the cathedral in [[Kraków]]. He had been elected as king on November 8.
* [[February 9]] &ndash; the Duchy of [[Hesse-Cassel]] captures [[Dorsten]] from the Electorate of Cologne without resistance.
* [[February 13]]
** [[Galileo Galilei]] arrives in Rome for his trial before the [[Inquisition]].
** Fire engines are used for the first time in [[England]] in order to control and extinguish a fire that breaks out at [[London Bridge]], but not before 43 houses are destroyed.<ref name=Firesb> "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 1]] &ndash; [[Samuel de Champlain]] reclaims his role as commander of [[New France]], on behalf of [[Cardinal Richelieu]].