Editing 1624 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 13]] &ndash; [[Garcia I of Kongo|Garcia Mvemba a Nkanga]] is enthroned as King Garcia I of the southern African nation of [[Kingdom of Kongo|Kongo]] (now in [[Angola]]), upon the death of his father, [[Pedro II of Kongo|King Pedro II]]. 
* [[April 15]] &ndash; The [[University of Saint Francis Xavier]] is founded in [[Bolivia]].
* [[April 29]] &ndash; [[Louis XIII of France]] appoints [[Cardinal Richelieu]] to the ''[[Conseil du Roi]]'' (Royal Council).
* [[May 8]] &ndash; [[Capture of Bahia]]: A [[Dutch West India Company]] fleet captures the Brazilian city of [[Salvador, Bahia]] from the [[Portuguese Empire]] (at this time in the [[Iberian Union]]).
* [[May 11]] &ndash; a [[1624 Fez earthquake|major earthquake in Fez, Morocco]], estimated magnitude 6.0 {{M|w|link=yes}}, causes severe damage and thousands of casualties.
* [[May 24]]
**  The city of [[Oslo]], Norway, is destroyed by fire for the fourteenth time.<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>  King [[Christian IV of Denmark]]–Norway decrees its rebuilding on a new site, where it will be renamed ''Christiania''.
** After years of unprofitable operation, [[Colony of Virginia|Virginia]]'s charter is revoked, and it becomes a royal colony.  
* [[May 25]] &ndash; The Scottish city of [[Dunfermline]] is destroyed by fire, but [[Dunfermline Abbey|The Abbey]], [[Dunfermline Palace|The Palace]], the [[Abbot House, Dunfermline|Abbot House]] and many other buildings survive.
* [[May]] &ndash; The first Dutch settlers arrive in [[New Netherland]]; they disembark at [[Governors Island]].
* [[June 10]] &ndash; [[Treaty of Compiègne]] is signed between the [[Kingdom of France]] and the [[Dutch Republic]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Richard Bonney|title=The King's Debts: Finance and Politics in France 1589-1661|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_M9nAAAAMAAJ|year=1981|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-822563-8|page=122|language=en}}</ref>