Editing 1628 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 6]] &ndash; [[Damat Halil Pasha]] is fired from his position as [[Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire]] by Sultan [[Murad IV]] after failing again to suppress the rebellion started by [[Abaza Mehmed Pasha]] or to win the war of the Ottomans against Persia. Halil is replaced by [[Gazi Hüsrev Pasha]].
* [[April 8]] &ndash; A decree of the [[Sacred Congregation of Rites]] of the Roman Catholic Church is made to prohibit the veneration of saints whose sanctity has not been declared by the [[Holy See]].
* [[April 21]] &ndash; Generalissimo [[Albrecht von Wallenstein]] of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] is made Admiral of the Baltic Sea by [[Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor|Emperor Ferdinand II]]. 
* [[April 26]] &ndash; Cardinal [[Girolamo Grimaldi-Cavalleroni]] is appointed as the Governor of Rome by [[Pope Urban VIII]].
* [[May 5]] &ndash; Catholic League Field Marshal [[Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly]], succeeds in taking control of the German city of [[Stade]] after a long siege. Tilly allows the remaining 3,500 Danish and English defenders safe passage out of Germany, and captures most of the [[Bremen-Verden|Duchy of Bremen]] except for the city of Bremen itself, which he turns to next.
* [[May 13]]
**In North America, [[Matthew Cradock]] is elected by shareholders as the first [[List of colonial governors of Massachusetts|Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company]]. 
**[[Thirty Years' War]]: As a result of its refusal to accept the [[capitulation of Franzburg]], the [[Siege of Stralsund (1628)|siege of Stralsund is begun]] by Field Marshals [[Hans Georg von Arnim-Boitzenburg]] and [[Albrecht von Wallenstein|Wallenstein]]'s of the Holy Roman Imperial Army, and lasts until August 4. <ref>''The Cambridge Modern History, Volume IV: The Thirty Years's War'' (The University Press, Cambridge, 1906) pp. 107-108</ref>
* [[May 21]] &ndash; (17 Ramadan 1037 AH) [[Muhsin ibn Husayn]], Emir of Mecca and King of Hejaz, surrenders control to [[Ahmad ibn Abd al-Muttalib]].
* [[May 31]] &ndash; [[Mehmed III Giray]], the [[Crimean Khanate|Khan of Crimea]], is forced to leave after an invasion of 4,000 Cossacks and a four week siege of the capital [[Bakhchysarai]]. The attack is led by [[Mykhailo Doroshenko]], who is killed in the battle.
* [[June 7]] &ndash; King Charles I reconvenes the English Parliament, and accepts the [[Petition of Right]] as a concession to gain his subsidies.