Editing 1626 (section)

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* [[1626 influenza pandemic]] begins in Asia, then spreads into Europe, Africa, North America,<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Sen|first=Rajendra Kumar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MdUSAQAAMAAJ&q=influenza+of+1627|title=A Treatise on Influenza: With Special Reference to the Pandemic of 1918|date=1923|publisher=|isbn=|location=|pages=7|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=|first=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2M_nAAAAMAAJ&q=1626+influenza+pandemic|title=Annals of Medical History|date=1933|publisher=P.B. Hoeber.|isbn=|location=|pages=537|language=en}}</ref> and South America.<ref name=":0" />
* The [[Würzburg witch trials|Würzburg]] and [[Bamberg witch trials]], which will lead to the mass executions of hundreds of people until [[1630]]/[[1631|31]], begin.
* [[Samuel de Champlain]] decides to build ''Cap tourmente (Kap toor-mont) Farm'' to raise livestock to provide food for settlers in [[Quebec]], rather than depending on supplies sent from France.<ref>Champlain describes the construction in one of his journals.</ref>
* Establishment of the coastal settlement of [[Salem, Massachusetts]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Rantoul |first1=Robert S. |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5479/sil.81485.39088002108736 |title=Old-time ships of Salem |last2=Chapman |first2=William O. |date=1922 |publisher=Essex Institute|doi=10.5479/sil.81485.39088002108736 }}</ref>