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The Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn develops a life-long interest in self-portraiture
After years of warfare, the truce of Altmark gives Estonia and most of Latvia to Sweden
The sculptor and architect Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini is given the task of adding the drama of baroque to the newly completed St Peter's in Rome
Charles I dismisses his parliament in Westminster, and fails to summon another in the following eleven years
Rival Dutch, English and French colonies are established in Guiana, the northeast coast of south America
John Winthrop, appointed governor of the new Massachusetts Bay Company, sails from England with 700 settlers
John Winthrop selects the site of Boston for the first Massachusetts settlement
John Winthrop, arriving in Massachusetts, begins the journal that is eventually published as The History Of New England
Gustavus II and the Swedish army win a conclusive victory over the imperial forces at Breitenfeld
Rembrandt moves from his home town of Leiden to set up a studio in Amsterdam
Samuel Fortrey builds a house with gables, in the Dutch style, in what is now Kew Gardens.
The Inquisition convicts Galileo of heresy and he denies the truth of Copernicus - on being shown the instruments of torture
Shah Jahan orders that all recently built Hindu temples shall be destroyed, ending the Mughal tradition of religious tolerance
The Swedish army wins another convincing victory at Lützen, but Gustavus II dies leading a cavalry charge
Maryland is granted to Lord Baltimore as a haven for English Roman Catholics
Van Dyck moves to London and becomes portrait painter to the British court and aristocracy
Charles I acquires Raphael’s cartoons for The Acts of the Apostles (now in the Victoria and Albert Museum), to be copied as tapestries in the workshops at Mortlake
Shah Jahan begins building the Taj Mahal as a memorial for his wife, Mumtaz Mahal
Williamsburg, first known as Middle Plantation, is founded in Virginia
The four years of tulip mania in Holland provide the first example of speculative frenzy in a capitalist market
George Herbert's only volume of poems, The Temple, is published posthumously
A Passion play is performed for the first time at Oberammergau, in the spirit of the Counter-Reformation
Charles I demands ship money to increase his revenue, albeit in the absence of its conventional justification - a crisis of national defence
Francesco Borromini begins work on his intricate baroque masterpiece, the Monastery of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (1634-43), in Rome
Rembrandt marries Saskia van Uylenburgh, who will feature in many of his paintings
