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=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 30]] &ndash; [[Eighty Years' War]]: The nine-month [[Siege of Schenkenschans]] ends, when forces of the Dutch Republic recapture the strategically important fort from the Spanish.
* [[May 14]] &ndash; [[William Pynchon]] and his men establish the settlement of Agawam Plantation (now [[Springfield, Massachusetts]]) in territory controlled by the [[Agawam people]], a subset of the [[Algonquian peoples]], and negotiate for its purchase for Britain's [[Connecticut Colony]].<ref>Esther M. Swift, ''West Springfield Massachusetts: A Town History'' (West Springfield Heritage Association, 1969)</ref> The Agawams deed the land to Connecticut on [[July 15]], and the area is later deeded by Connecticut to the [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]].
* [[June 20]] &ndash; [[Roger Williams]] and other Puritan settlers become founders of the colony of [[Providence Plantations]], which later joins neighbouring territory to become the [[colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations]]. The area today is the U.S. state of [[Rhode Island]].
* [[June 22]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Tornavento]] is fought in north-west Italy in the course of the [[Thirty Years' War]], as France and Savoy respond to an attack by Spain. While the battle is a stalemate, the city of [[Castano Primo]] is heavily damaged.