Events

• January 20 - Tidal wave swept along the Bristol Channel, killing 2000 people. (Possibly tsunami)
• April 25 - Battle of Gibraltar Dutch fleet destroys anchored Spanish fleet
• April 26 - English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia, later moving up the James River to found Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America.
• Spain is effectively bankrupt.
• The British national anthem, God Save the King, is first sung.
• Rule of Andorra is passed jointly to the king of France and the Bishop of Urgell.
• June 8 - Newton Rebellion: 40-50 peasants killed by landowners Tresham family during protests against enclosure of common land in Newton, Northamptonshire,UK - culmination of Midlands Revolt.

Births

• March 12 - Paul Gerhardt, hymnist (d. 1676)
• March 24 - Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter, Dutch Admrial (d. 1676)
• November 26 - John Harvard, cleric (d. 1638)

Deaths

• October 31 - Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and ecclesiastical historian (b. 1538)
• Domenico Fontana, Italian architect (b. 1543)