Editing 1626 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 25]] &ndash; [[Thirty Years' War]]: [[Battle of Dessau Bridge]] &ndash; [[Albrecht von Wallenstein]] defeats [[Ernst von Mansfeld]]s army.
* [[May 4]] &ndash; Peter Minuit becomes director-general of [[New Netherland]], for the [[Dutch West India Company]].
* [[May 24]] &ndash; [[Peter Minuit]] buys [[Manhattan]] from a [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] tribe ([[Lenape]] or [[Shinnecock Indian Nation|Shinnecock]]) for trade goods, valued at 60 [[Dutch gulden|guilder]]s (''$1,143 U.S. dollars as of 2020'').
* [[May 30]] &ndash; [[Wanggongchang Explosion]] in [[Beijing]], China: a gunpowder factory explosion destroys part of the city and kills 20,000 people.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allbestessays.com/History-Other/Solving-a-Mystery-of-400-Years-An-Explanation-to/47238.html|title=Solving a Mystery of 400 Years - An Explanation to the "explosion" in Downtown Beijing in the Year of 1626 - Research Paper|website=www.allbestessays.com|language=en|access-date=2018-09-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180919211340/https://www.allbestessays.com/History-Other/Solving-a-Mystery-of-400-Years-An-Explanation-to/47238.html|archive-date=2018-09-19|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[June 15]] &ndash; King [[Charles I of England]] dissolves the English [[Parliament]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Parliament of 1626|website=History of Parliament Online |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/survey/parliament-1626|access-date=2019-03-31}}</ref>
* [[June 20]] &ndash; Nine Jesuit Christian missionaries, six of them Japanese and three from Spain, are executed in Japan, followed by eight Japanese converts to Christianity on July 12.
* [[June 28]] &ndash; A [[1626 Lingqiu earthquake|7.0 magnitude earthquake]] strikes [[Lingqiu County]], in [[China]], killing 5,200 residents.