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Events
- May 13 - Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after having been accused of treason.
- July 30 - In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
- 16 November - foundation of William Parker School, Hastings by the will of Rev William Parker.
- December 4 - Thirty-eight colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (this is considered by some to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas).
- Slaves are first brought to the Americas.
- Ferdinand II elected as Holy Roman Emperor.
- England establishes its first outpost in India.
- The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth reaches the height of its territorial extent.
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Births
- February 24 - Charles Le Brun, French painter and art theorist (d. 1690)
- March 6 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier and poet (d. 1655)
- Jean Claude, French protestant clergyman (d. 1687)
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Deaths
- March 4 - Anne of Denmark, queen of James I of England (b. 1574)
- March 13 - Richard Burbage, English actor
- March 20 - Mathias, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1557)
- May 13 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (b. 1547)
- August 30 - Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
- October 14 - Samuel Daniel, English poet (b. 1562)
- Hans Lippershey, Dutch lensmakeraf:1619
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