Events

• February 10 - The Académie française in Paris is expanded to become a national academy for the artistic elite.
• April 13 – Maronite warlord Fah-al-Din II executed in Constantinople
• October 9 - Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he spoke out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land.
• Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
• Martinique is settled by France.
• Dominica is claimed by France.
• Franco-Swed. treaty of alliance signed by Cardinal Richelieu and Axel Oxtenstierna .
• Académie Française expanded nationally by Cardinal Richelieu.
• Colonization of Connecticut begins.
• Nagyszombat University (predecessor of Budapest University) established.
• The speed limit for the Hackney carriage in London is set at 3 m.p.h.

Births

• July 18 - Robert Hooke, English scientist.
• Henry Morgan, Welsh privateer (approximate date).

Deaths

• August 27 - Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1562)
• November - Thomas Parr, English man claiming to be 152 years old.