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Wikipedia.
Events:
August 6 - Pope
Urban VIII is elected to the Papacy.
Mustafa I becomes Ottoman Emperor succeeding
Osman II, but is then succeeded
by
Murat IV.
The
Safavids recapture Baghdad.
England first colonizes Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Wilhelm Schickard invents his "Calculating Clock", and early mechanical calculator.
Procopius's long-lost Secret History is rediscovered in the Vatican Library.
Giambattista Marini publishes his long poem Adone.
Tommaso Campanella publishes The City of the Sun.
Johannes Rudbeck founds Rudbeckianska Gymnasiet, first gymnasium in Sweden.
The Avedis Zildjian Company begins making cymbals at Constantinople.
Second Thanksgiving celebrated at Plymouth Plantation.
Erotomania is first mentioned in a psychiatric treatise.
Births:
June 19 -
Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher.
August 5 -
Marc Antonio Cesti, composer (+ 1669).
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (+ 1673).
Empress
Meisho of Japan.
Baptized:
September 19 -
Niclaes van der Willigen.
Deaths:
January -
Josias van den Houten.
July 4 -
William Byrd, composer.
July 18 -
Pope Gregory XV.
Andrea Andreani, Italian engraver.
William Camden, historian.
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