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* The Venezuelan city of [[Petare]] is founded by Spanish conquistadors, as ''San Jose de Guanarito''.
* The Swedish city of [[Gothenburg]] is founded by King [[Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Maurice Willmore Barley|author2=Council for British Archaeology|title=European towns: their archaeology and early history|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SLYnAAAAYAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Published for the Council for British Archaeology by Academic Press|isbn=978-0-12-078850-7|page=117}}</ref>  The king also grants city rights to [[Luleå]], [[Piteå]] and Torneå ([[Tornio]]).  [[Riga]] falls under the rule of [[Sweden]].
* [[Tamblot]] rallies an unknown, large number of people in [[Bohol]], [[Captaincy General of the Philippines]] to revolt against the [[Spanish Empire]].<ref>{{cite book |title= Philippine Political and Cultural History: The Philippines Since Pre-Spanish Times|last=Zaide|first=Gregorio|year=1949|volume=1 |location= Manila |publisher=R.P. Garcia Publishing Company|pages=348}}</ref>
* The [[Dutch East India Company]] sends 2,000 soldiers, under the command of [[Jan Pieterszoon Coen]], to the [[Banda Islands]], in order to force the local inhabitants to accept the Dutch trade monopoly on the lucrative [[nutmeg]], grown almost exclusively on those islands. The soldiers proceed to massacre most of the 15,000 indigenous inhabitants.
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