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* Easter &ndash; Persian [[Safavid dynasty|Safavid]] hordes, led by Shah [[Abbas the Great]], kill all the monks at the [[David Gareja monastery complex]] in [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], and set fire to its collection of manuscripts and works of art.
* [[Mary Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury]], is released from the [[Tower of London]], in recognition of her role in helping to discover the murder of Sir [[Thomas Overbury]].
* The [[Somers Isles Company]] is founded to administer [[Bermuda]].
* [[John Browne (King's Gunfounder)|John Browne]] is created the first ''King's Gunfounder'' in England.
* Austrian merchants receive economic privileges in the [[Ottoman Empire]].
* [[The Perse School]] in [[Cambridge]], England, is founded by Dr [[Stephen Perse]].
* [[Wilson's School]] in [[Wallington, London|Wallington]], near London, is founded by Royal Charter.
* The [[Grolsch Brewery]] is founded in [[Groenlo]], [[Dutch Republic|Netherlands]].
* Konoike Shinroku opens an office in [[Osaka]], and begins shipping tax-rice from western [[Japan]] to Osaka.
* [[Johannes Kepler]] publishes ''Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo'', in response to [[Galileo]]'s discovery of [[Jupiter]]'s moons.<ref>{{cite book|title=Crerar Current|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pv0OAQAAIAAJ|year=1954|page=6}}</ref>
* [[Manuel Dias the Younger|Manuel Dias]], a Portuguese [[Jesuit China missions|Jesuit missionary]], introduces the [[telescope]] for the first time in [[China]], in his book ''Tian Wen Lüe'' (''Explicatio Sphaerae Coelestis'').
* The second volume of [[Miguel de Cervantes]]'s ''[[Don Quixote]] ("El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha")'' is published, and is as successful as the first. ''Don Quixote'' eventually becomes the only truly famous work its author ever writes.</onlyinclude>