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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 15]]
** Manchu invaders of China's [[Fujian]] province capture Spanish Dominican priest [[Francis Ferdinand de Capillas|Francisco Fernández de Capillas]], torture him and then behead him.  Capillas will be canonized more than 350 years later in 2000 in the Roman Catholic Church as one of the [[Martyr Saints of China]].
** [[Alexis of Russia|Alexis, Tsar of Russia]], marries [[Maria Miloslavskaya]], who later gives birth to two future tsars (Feodor III and Ivan V) as well as [[Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia|Princess Sophia Alekseyevna]], the regent for Peter I. 
* [[January 17]] &ndash; By a vote of 141 to 91, England's [[Long Parliament]] passes the [[Vote of No Addresses]], breaking off negotiations with [[Charles I of England|King Charles I]], and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the [[English Civil War]].
* [[January 20]] &ndash; France's Royal Council votes to create the [[Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture|Académie royale]] after accepting the proposal of Martin de Charmois.
* [[January 26]] &ndash; The [[Khmelnytsky Uprising]] in [[Ukraine]], at the time part of the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth|Republic of Both Nations (Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)]], begins as [[Bohdan Khmelnytsky]] becomes Hetman of the Cossacks.
* [[January 30]] &ndash; The Dutch and the Spanish sign the [[Peace of Münster]], ending the [[Eighty Years' War]]. The [[Spanish Empire]] recognizes the [[Dutch Republic]] of United Netherlands as a sovereign state (governed by the [[House of Orange-Nassau]] and the [[States General of the Netherlands|States General]]), which was previously a province of the [[Spanish Empire]].  The treaty is ratified by the Netherlands on May 15.
* [[February 11]] &ndash; England's parliament passes stricter laws against performance of stage plays, providing for demolition of seats in theatres, imprisonment for actors and fines for spectators.<ref>Jane Milling and Peter Thomson, ''The Cambridge History of British Theatre'' (Cambridge University Press, 2004) p. 459</ref>  The vote comes six days after the King's Men Players are arrested at the Cockpit Theatre during an illegal performance of ''[[Rollo Duke of Normandy]]''.
* [[February 28]] &ndash; [[Christian IV of Denmark|King Christian IV]] of Denmark and Norway dies after a reign of almost 60 years without having named a successor.  The ''Rigsraadet'' (Royal Council) and the Estates of the Realm will debate the matter for more than four months before deciding on July 6 to select Christian's oldest surviving son to become [[Frederick III of Denmark|King Frederick III]].
* [[March 31]] &ndash; A major earthquake strikes [[Van, Turkey|Van]] in Ottoman Armenia.<ref>{{cite book|title=A History of Persian Earthquakes|first1=N. N.|last1=Ambraseys|author-link1=Nicholas Ambraseys|first2=C. P.|last2=Melville|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1JkfKub5vakC&pg=PA50|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1982|page=50|isbn=0-521-24112-X}}</ref>