• February 22 - Native American Quadequine[?] introduces Popcorn to English colonists
• July 6 - Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus land in Germany.
• 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