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• Jan 3 Dutch Premier Van Joost speaks of "Hostage Rights of Aemstel"

• Jan 3 Schouwburg Theater, the 1st in Amsterdam, opens

• Jan 5 Petition in Recife Brazil leads to closing of their 2 synagogues

• Feb 28 Scottish Presbyterians sign National Convent, Greyfriars, Edinburgh

• Mar 3 Duke Bernard of Saxe-Weimar occupies Rheinfelden

• Mar 22 Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony

• Mar 29 1st permanent white settlement in Delaware (Swedish Lutherans)

• May 7 Cornelis Gooyer establishes the first permanent Dutch settlement on Mauritius, then uninhabited

• May 12 Emperor Shah Jahan commissions construction of the Red Fort at Shahjahanabad, Mughal Empire (now Dehli, India)

• May 13 Construction of the Red Fort begins at Shahjahanabad, Mughal Empire (now Dehli, India)

• May 14 Admiral Adam Westerwolt conquers Batticaloa, Ceylon

• Jun 1 1st earthquake recorded in US, at Plymouth, Massachusetts

• Jun 25 Lunar eclipse is 1st astronomical event recorded in the American Colonies

• Aug 9 Jonas Bronck of Holland becomes the first European settler in the Bronx

• Sep 1 -4] French queen-mother Maria de' Medici visits Amsterdam

• Dec 17 French and Swedish troops occupy Breisach on the Rhine