Events

• March 4 - Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter.
• June 4: The VOC ship Batavia runs aground west of Australia.
• March 10 - Charles I of England dissolves Parliament starting the Eleven Years Tyranny in which there was no parliament.
• End of the reign of Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan
• Empress Meisho ascends to the throne of Japan

Births

• March 9 - Tsar Aleksey I of Russia
• April 14 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch scientist
• August 17 - John III Sobieski, king of Poland
• Roderick O Flaherty, Irish chieftan, historian

Deaths

• Abbas I, Shah of Persia (possibly deceased in 1628).