See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
February 22 - Native American Quadequine introduces
Popcorn to English colonists.
July 6 - Swedish troops under
Gustavus Adolphus land in Germany.
July 8 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony celebrates its first
Thanksgiving Day.
September 17 - The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.
Johann Heinrich Alsted's Encyclopaedia is published.
The first account of the Childes Tomb story is published.
Paramaribo, Suriname is first settled by the British.
Births:
Willem Drost, Baroque painter and printmaker.
May 29 -
Charles II, future king of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
October 14 -
Sophia of Hanover, later heir to the throne of Great Britain.
Deaths:
December 27 -
Johannes Kepler, German astronomer.
Thijsje Pauwelsdr.
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