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Events
September 6
- English emigrants on the
Mayflower
depart from
Plymouth
,
England
for the future
New England
and arrive at the end of the year. The
Mayflower Compact
is signed on
November 11
.
November 8
- The
Battle of White Mountain
, the first battle in the
Thirty Years' War
, takes place near
Prague
, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours.
Two officers of the
British East India Company
attempt to claim the Table Mountain region (in present-day
South Africa
) for
England
, but fail.
Shogun
Tokugawa Hidetada
restores
Osaka Castle
. Its current appearance dates from this remodeling.
Modern
violin
Witch hunts
begin in
Scotland
.
Cornelius Drebbel
builds an undersea boat.
J.P.Donnet , teacher of deaf children in the Spanish court, creates sign alphabet.
Bonesetting becomes a science.
Births
February 16
-
Friedrich Wilhelm
, the "Great Elector" of
Brandenburg
,
Duke of Prussia
(d.
1688
)
October 31
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John Evelyn
, English diarist and writer (d.
1706
)
Deaths
March 1
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Thomas Campion
, poet and composer
May 16
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William Adams
, English navigator and Japanese
samurai
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