January 1 Papal Chancery adopts Jan 1 as beginning of the year (was Mar 25) January 6 Pope Gregory XV forms Congregatio the Propagande Fide January 7 Germany and Transylvania sign Peace of Nikolsburg February 8 King James I disbands the English parliament March 12 Ignatius of Loyola declared a saint March 22 1st Indian (Powhattan) massacre of whites Jamestown, Virginia; 347 slain August 10 County Maine appended on John Mason/Fernandino Gorges September 5 Richelieu becomes cardinal September 6 Spanish silver fleet disappears off Florida Keys; 1,000s die October 18 French King Louis XIII and Huguenots sign treaty of Montpellier
