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World

General

Population: 542 Million*

Entertainment: Writerss include John Fletcher, Robert Balfour (Aristotle), John Stow and E. Howes (summary of English Chronicles)
Art includes Bernini, Jacob Jordaens "Adoration of the Shepherds",
Science: Bartin Bohme writes about veterinary science
Kepler starts writing third law of Planetary motion
Johann Hakob Scherchzer writes "Natural History of Swiss Landscape"
Sports: James I writes "Book of Sports" – Puritans object
Deaths: Composer Giulio Caccini, Explorer Sir Walter Raleigh (beheaded), Prince Philip William of Orange, Dramatist Gerbrand Adriensz Bredero, Emperor Matthias I, Chief Powhatan

Africa

East: Drought at horn of Africa
North: French explorer Paul Imbert reaches Timbuktu
West: Founding of Dutch West African Company and English West African Company

Europe

General: Killer avalanches in Alps
Start of 30 Years' War in Europe - mostly between Catholic Bourbons and Protestant (somewhat) Habsburgs in Germany
Peace of Madrid ratified – ending war between Venice and Austria
End of Polish intervention in Russia
Belgium: Van Dyck becomes member of the Antwerp guild of painters
First pawn shop opens in Brussels
Czechoslovakia: Count Matthias von Thurn leads Bohemians to revolt against Catholic policy of the Regents in Prague – start of 30 Years' War
War begins with Defenestration in Prague – Imperial regents Jaroslav von Martinitz and William Slawata are thrown down from windows in Hradcany Palace by the rebels
England: Francis Bacon created Lord Chancellor, Sir Robert Naunton made chief secretary of state
Building of Aston Hall in Birmingham
Sir Walter Raleigh returns to England and is executed
France: Richelieu ordered into exile at Avignon for intriguing with Queen Mother Maria dé Medici
Marquise de Rambouillet starts her literary salon in Paris
German States: Duke Albert of Prussia dies – possessions pass to the Electorate of Brandenburg
Ferdinand deposed and Frederick elected king of Bohemia
Count Mansfield occupies Pilsen for Protestant Union
End of Duchy of Prussia as renamed Brandenburg-Prussia
Holy Roman Empire: Imperial Army inder Count Karl Bucquoi enters Bohemia to suppress rebels
Matthias I (HRE) dies and Ferdinand elected HRE
Hungary: Ferdinand of Styria crowned King of Hungary
Italian States: Landslide in Chiavenna - killer avalanches in Alps kill 2427
Teatro Farnese opened at Parma
Diptheria outbreak
Netherlands: Death of Prince Philip William of Orange – succeeded by brother Maurice of Nassau
Poland: Poland signs two-year truce with Sweden – 14-year truce with Turkey
Switzerland: Attempts to return to normal end

Middle East

General: End of Holy War between Persia and Turkey