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=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 14]] &ndash; Second [[Battle of Playa Honda]]: The [[Spain|Spanish]] navy defeats a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] fleet in the [[Philippines]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Philippine Journal of Education|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ubcqAAAAMAAJ|year=1966|page=754|language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 19]] &ndash; The town of [[Uusikaupunki]] ({{langx|sv|Nystad}}, lit. "New Town") was founded by King [[Gustavus Adolphus|Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden]].<ref>[https://uusikaupunki.fi/kaupunki-ja-hallinto/tietoa-uudestakaupungista/yleista-uudenkaupungin-historiasta Yleistä Uudenkaupungin historiasta] (in Finnish)</ref>
* [[April 24]] &ndash; Encouraged by [[Charles de Luynes|Charles d'Albert]], seventeen-year-old [[Louis XIII]], king of France, forces his mother [[Marie de Medici]], who has held ''de facto'' power, into retirement and has her favourite, [[Concino Concini]], assassinated.<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Appelbaum|title=Terrorism Before the Letter: Mythography and Political Violence in England, Scotland, and France 1559-1642|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ix_uCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA17|year=2015|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-874576-1|pages=17–}}</ref>
* [[May 13]] &ndash; [[James VI and I|King James I]] of [[England]] is escorted by [[Alexander Home, 1st Earl of Home|the Earl of Home]] across the border to return to [[Scotland]] (where he reigns as King James VI) for the first time since the [[Union of the Crowns]] 14 years earlier in 1603. He is given lodging at Home's [[Dunglass Castle, East Lothian]].
* [[May 22]] &ndash; Portuguese Christian Missionary João Baptista Machado de Távora is killed, becoming the first of the [[205 Martyrs of Japan]].
* [[May 24]] &ndash; King James VI of Scotland authorizes the Scottish East India Company, led by [[James Cunningham, 7th Earl of Glencairn|Lord Glencairn]] to trade to the East Indies, the Levant, Greenland, Muscovy and all other islands in the north, north-west and north-eastern seas. James VI is advised that the authorization is not in conflict with charters granted by him in his capacity as King James I of England to England's East India Company, the Levant Company, and the Muscovy Company.
* [[May 26]] &ndash; [[Eliya VIII]] becomes the new [[Patriarch of the Church of the East]] and leader of the [[Church of the East|Christians of Mesopotamia]]. 
* [[May 27]] &ndash; In Germany, the Prince-Bishops of Bamberg, Eichstädt and Würzburg, and the Prince-Provost of Ellwangen, withdraw their states from the [[Catholic League (German)|Catholic League]].
* [[June 5]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor|Ferdinand II]], Archduke of Inner Austria, is elected [[King of Bohemia]]. Ferdinand's forceful Catholic counter-reformation causes great unrest, amongst the Protestants and moderates in Bohemia.