Events

• January 27 - The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins ending in their execution on January 31
• May 17 - Supporters of Vasili Shusky invade the Kremlin and kill pretender Dmitri
• December 26 - Shakespeare's King Lear performed in court
• Storm buries a village of St Ismail's near modern-day Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Britain
• The Treaty of Zsitva-Torok ends the Long War between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans in Hungary. The independence of Transylvania is recognized by both sides and Austria's annual tribute to the Ottoman Empire is abolished.
• First Union Flag created.
• The Jesuit Joannis Stribingius visits Latvia, describes Latvian mythology

Births

• June 6 - Pierre Corneille, French author
• July 15 - Rembrandt, Dutch painter
• September 22 - Li Zicheng, Chinese rebel (d. 1645)

Deaths

• January 31 - Guy Fawkes (executed) (b. 1570)
• October 5 - Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546)
• November 20 - John Lyly (burial date)
• Carel van Mander, Dutch painter and poet (b. 1548)