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The British East India Company completes the construction of Fort St George in Madras
The Powhatan leader Opechancanough launches another surprise attack on the Virgiinia settlements, killing about 500 colonists
The last Ming emperor hangs himself, and China acquires a new and final dynasty - the Qing
In his Principles of Philosophy Descartes gives priority to reason, summed up in his famous phrase cogito ergo sum
In the first decisive battle of the English Civil War the king's nephew, Rupert of the Rhine, is heavily defeated at Marston Moor
Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell form England's first professional army, calling it the New Model Army
The Dutch artist Aelbert Cuyp paints landscapes that glow with the warmth of gentle sunlight
The royalist forces, again under the command of Rupert of the Rhine, suffer another major defeat at Naseby
The aged Powhatan leader Opechancanough is captured by the English and executed, ending the last significant Indian threat to Virginia
With a parliamentary army surrounding royalist Oxford, Charles I escapes in disguise and heads north
With the help of his more robust brother-in-law, Blaise Pascal provides physical proof that atmospheric pressure varies with altitude
A young Hindu prince, Shivaji, captures Bijapur in a campaign against Muslim rulers, enabling him to establish the large and long-lasting Maratha empire
Charles I puts himself in the hands of a Scottish army, opposed at the time to the English parliament
The Swiss cantons agree on joint action to defend their external borders, in the pact known as the Defensionale of Wyl
The Scottish army holding Charles I makes peace with parliament, and hands the king to parliamentary commissioners
Peter Stuyvesant begins a 17-year spell as director-general of the Dutch colony of New Netherland in North America
Charles I is held at his palace of Hampton Court, as a prisoner of Cromwell and parliament
Charles I comes to a secret arrangement with a group of Covenanters in Scotland, winning their support
Scottish Covenanters invade England in support of the English king, Charles I, in his struggle against parliament
A Cossack rebellion leads to the eventual transfer of their territory from Poland to Russia
Iroquois raids drive the Huron west to the Great Lakes
A rebellion of nobles against Mazarin, the principal minister of the young Louis XIV, becomes known as the Fronde
The Dutch chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont suggests that there are insubstantial substances other than air, and coins a name for them - gases
The Peace of Westphalia finally brings to an end the Thirty Years' War
Parliamentary forces defeat the Scottish invaders and suppress other new outbreaks of royalist support
