January 6 Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed January 14 1st Connecticut constitution (Fundamental Orders) adopted in Hartford Rodger Ludlow publishes"Fundamental Orders of Connecticut" January 24 Connecticut colony organizes under Fundamental Orders February 7 Academie Franeaise begins Dictionary of French Language March 13 Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard May 8 William Coddington founds Newport, Rhode Island May 20 Dorchester Massachusetts, forms 1st school funded by local taxes June 6 Massachusetts grants 500 acres of land to erect a gunpowder mill June 10 1st American log cabin at Fort Christina (Wilmington Delaware) June 18 Treaty of Berwick: End 1st Bishop war July 19 French troops occupy Salses, at Perpignan September 12 Viceroy Thomas Wentworth sails back to England September 25 1st printing press in America Suzuki Shosan, Samurai monk of Zen Buddhism, found awakening October 21 Dunes (Marten Tromp defeats Spanish armada under De Oquendo) Sea battle at Dunes: Lieutenant Admiral Maarten Tromp beats Spanish Armada November 5 1st post office in the colonies is set up in Massachusetts November 24 1st observation of transit of Venus occured (only 2, record event) December 3 1st annulment by court decree passes
