| January 3 | Dutch Premier Van Joost speaks of "Hostage rights of Aemstel" |
| January 3 | Schouwburg Theater, the 1st in Amsterdam, opens |
| January 5 | Petition in Recife Brazil leads to closing of their 2 synagogues |
| February 11 | Dutch countess Louise of Solms marries earl John of Brederode |
| February 28 | Scottish Presbyterians sign National Convent, Greyfriars, Edinburgh |
| March 3 | Duke Bernard van Saksen-Weimar occupies Rheinfelden |
| March 22 | Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Mass Bay Colony |
| March 29 | 1st permanent white settlement in Delaware (Swedish Lutherans) |
| May 7 | Cornelis S. Goyer takes possession of Mauritius (uninhabited) |
| May 14 | Admiral Adam Westerwolt conquerors Batticaloa, Ceylon |
| June 1 | 1st earthquake recorded in U.S., at Plymouth, Mass |
| June 25 | Lunar eclipse is 1st astronomical event recorded in U.S. |
| August 9 | Jonas Bronck of Holland becomes 1st European settler in Bronx |
| September 1 | French queen-mother Maria de' Medici visits Amsterdam |
| November 8 | Anne Hutchinson banished from Massachusetts |
| December 17 | French/Swedish troops occupy Breisach on the Rhine |
