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===April&ndash;June===
* [[April 10]] &ndash; [[Plymouth Colony]] grants the "tenn menn of Saugust" a new settlement on Cape Cod, later named [[Sandwich, Massachusetts]].
* [[April 30]] &ndash; King [[Charles I of England]] issues a proclamation, attempting to stem [[emigration]] to the North American colonies.<ref name=CBH>{{cite book|last1=Palmer|first1=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=177–178|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
* [[May 26]] &ndash; [[Pequot War]]: [[Mystic massacre]] &ndash; A band of English settlers under Captain [[John Mason (c. 1600–1672)|John Mason]], and their [[Narragansett people|Narragansett]] and [[Mohegan people|Mohegan]] allies, set fire to a fortified village of the [[Mashantucket Pequot Tribe]] near the [[Mystic River]]. Between 400 and 700 people, mostly women, children and old men, are killed.<ref>{{cite book|last=Vowell|first=Sarah|author-link=Sarah Vowell|title=The Wordy Shipmates|year=2008|publisher=Riverhead Books|isbn=978-1-59448-999-0|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/wordyshipmates00vowe |pages=190–193}}</ref>
* [[May]] &ndash; Chinese [[encyclopedist]] [[Song Yingxing]] publishes his ''Tiangong Kaiwu'' ("Exploitation of the Works of Nature"), considered one of the most valuable encyclopedias of classical China.
* [[June 27]] &ndash; The first English venture to China is attempted by Captain [[John Weddell]], who sails into port in [[Macau]] and [[Guangzhou|Canton]] during the late [[Ming dynasty]] with six ships. The voyages are for trade, which is dominated here by the [[Portuguese Empire|Portuguese]] (at this time combined with the [[Spanish Empire|power of Spain]]). He brings 38,421 pairs of [[eyeglasses]], perhaps the first recorded European-made eyeglasses to enter China.<ref>[[Timothy Brook (historian)|Brook, Timothy]] (1998). ''[[The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China]]'' p. 57. {{ISBN|0520221540}}.</ref>