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1625 - the Dutch attack the Philippines a third time. Hostilities would not end until 1648 with the Treaty of Munster

1624 - Mail service begins in Denmark.

1623 - 11 Dutch ships depart to conquer Peru

1622 - In the Gregorian calendar, January 1 is declared as the first day of the year, instead of March 25.

1621 - Miles Standish appointed 1st commander of Plymouth colony

1620 - The first merry-go-round is seen at a fair in Philippapolis, Turkey and the Mayflower arrives at Cape Cod.

1619 - A captain in Mexico reports to Spain that a Filipino community has formed in Mexico City. The community seemed to be a combination of exiles from Tondo and shipmen from the Manila-Acapulco galleons who fell in love with Mexico.

Looks like Filipino have been globetrotters for a long, long time.

1618 - Pluto reaches, according to sophisticated mathematical calculations, its second most recent aphelion.
The next one occurs in 1866, and the following one will occur 2113.

Dang! We missed the aphelions. Oh well. Just goes to show how SLOOOOOOW Pluto is in orbiting around the

1617 - Sweden and Russia sign Peace of Stolbova to end the Ingrian War. The English and the Dutch contributed a lot during the negotiations.

1616 - After overwintering with the Huron Indians, Samuel de Champlain and Recollect Father Joseph Le Caron visit the Petun and Ottawa Indians of the Great Lakes.
This is Champlain's last trip in North America before returning to France.
Having secured Canada, he helps create French America, New France, or L'Acadie.

1615 - The end of the Sengoku, or Warring States Period, in Japan. The period lasted about 150 years, and only ended when the Tokugawa Shogunate pacified all other factions from 1603 to 1615.

1614 - Pocahontis marries John Rolfe.

Meanwhile, in Europe, Countess Elizabeth Bathory de Ecsed passes away. Known today as the "Blood Countess" and "Countess Dracula," she was rumored to have murdered 650 young women and, though neither tried nor convicted, she spent the last four years of her life imprisoned in a bricked-in series of rooms in a castle in what is now Slovakia.

1613 - Hasekura Rokuemon Tsunenaga sets out on his ambassadorial journey from Japan to Rome and the Christian West. He converts to Christianity during his journey.

His journey would take him to California, Mexico, Cuba, Spain, France, Rome, and the Philippines.

1612 - – Four women and one man are hanged following the Northamptonshire Witch Trials in Northampton, England.

1611 - The word "telescope" is first used, by Prince Federico Cesi at a banquet held to honor Galileo. The telescope was used to view Jupiter's moons.

1610 - The previously mentioned Galileo Galilei first observes the four Galilean moons of Jupiter: Ganymede, Callisto, Europa and Io.

1609 - Bermuda becomes an English colony. Sadly, I doubt whether Galileo was able to observe it through his telescope.

1608 - Quebec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.

1607 - Jamestown, Virginia, is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.

1606 - the first definite sighting of Australia by European explorers. The man was Willem Janszoon of the Dutch East India Company.

1605 - Pope Leo XI succeeds Pope Clement VIII as the 232nd pope.

1604 - First presentation of William Shakespeare's Othello, at Whitehall Palace, London.

1603 - Elizabeth I of England dies at Richmond Palace and is succeeded by her cousin's grandson, King James VI of Scotland, uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.

1602 - Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold

1601 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, longtime favorite of Queen Elizabeth I of England, rebels against the queen; his revolt is quickly crushed.
He is beheaded 16 days later.