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Year '1626' ('MDCXXVI') was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1626

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1626

January - June

★ January 9 - Peter Minuit sails from Texel island for America's New Netherland colony, with 2 ships of Dutch emigrants.

★ February 2 - King Charles I of England is crowned, but without his wife, Henrietta Maria, who declines to participate in a non-Catholic ceremony.

★ February 6 - The Huguenot rebels and French government sign the Peace of La Rochelle.

★ April 25 - Battle at the Dessauer bridge: Monarch Albrecht von Wallenstein defeats Earl of Mansfeld.

★ May 4 - Peter Minuit becomes director-general of New Netherland for the Dutch West India Company.

★ May 24 - Peter Minuit buys Manhattan from Native American tribe (Lenape or Shinnecock or Canarsie) for trade goods, valued at 60 guilders ("$24").

★ June 15 - King Charles I of England disbands the English parliament.

July - December

★ July 5 - Battle at Lenz: The rebel Austrian Boers are defeated.

★ July 30 - An earthquake strikes Naples: 10,000 die.

★ August 1 - Earl Earnest Casimir conquerors Oldenzaal.

★ August 27 - Battle of Lutter: The Catholic League defeats king Christian IV of Denmark.

★ September 30 - Nurhaci, chieftain of the Jurchens and founder of the Qing Dynasty dies and is succeeded by his son Hong Taiji.

★ September 30 - The battle between king Bethlen Gabor and earl Mansfeld-Wallenstein ends.

★ November 6 - (O.S.) The ship ''Arms of Amsterdam'' arrives in Europe from New Netherland (left September 23) with the news: "They have purchased the Island Manhattes [''Manhattan''] from the Indians for the value of 60 guilders." (from P. Schagen letter dated November 7).

★ November 18 - The new St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican is consecrated, the anniversary of that of the previous church in 326.

★ December 1 - Pasha Muhammad ibn Farukh, tyrannical Governor of Jerusalem is forced out.

★ December 20 - Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor and Transylvanian monarch Bethlen Gabor sign the Peace of Pressburg.

Undated

★ Chinese forces under Yuan Chonghuan scores an overwhelming victory against Manchurian forces at the Battle of Ningyuan; Manchurians advance to China is halted, the Manchurian Emperor Nurhaci dies shortly after due to battle wounds.

★ Spanish establish a trading colony on Taiwan.

★ Peter Minuit, director of the New Netherland colony, begins a policy of "purchasing" Manhattan from the Lenape.

★ In Sweden, work begins on building the sailing ship Vasa.

★ The Duchy of Urbino is incorporated into the Papal States.

★ The English Parliament impeach George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, favorite of Charles I of England.

★ Charles I dissolves Parliament.

★ The Dutch settle Manhattan, founding the town of New Amsterdam. The town would transform into a piece of what is now New York City.

★ In New England, the Town (later City) of Salem, Massachusetts is founded at Naumkeag

★ Kalinago Genocide of Saint Kitts and Nevis

Births

★ January 16 - Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (d. 1699)

★ February 5 - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, French writer (d. 1696)

★ March 12 - John Aubrey, English antiquary and writer (d. 1697)

★ May 12 - Louis Hennepin, Flemish Catholic missionary in North America (died c1705)

★ May 27 - William II, Prince of Orange (d. 1650)

★ August 12 - Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian composer (d. 1690)

★ October 4 - Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (d. 1712)

★ December 8 - Queen Christina of Sweden (d. 1689)

★ December 20 - Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German statesman (d. 1692)
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Deaths

★ January 24 - Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (b. 1580)

★ February 7 - William V, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1548)

★ February 11 - Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (b. 1552)

★ February 20 - John Dowland, English composer and lutenist (b. 1563)

★ April 9 - Francis Bacon, English scientist and statesman (b. 1561)

★ April 11 - Marino Ghetaldi, Croatian scientist (b. 1568)

★ May 4 - Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, English bishop and Bible translator (b. 1569)

★ May 17 - Juan Pujol, Catalan composer (b. 1570)

★ July 13 - Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (b. 1563)

★ September 21 - François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, Constable of France (b. 1543)

★ September 25 - Lancelot Andrewes, English scholar (b. 1555)

★ September 26 - Wakisaka Yasuharu, Japanese warrior (b. 1554)

★ September 30 - Nurhaci, Chinese chieftain (b. 1559)

★ October 2 - Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, Spanish diplomat (b. 1567)

★ October 30 - Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1580)

★ November 25 - Edward Alleyn, English actor (b. 1566)

★ November 29 - Ernst von Mansfeld, German soldier (born c1580)

★ November 30 - Thomas Weelkes, English composer (born 1576)

★ December 8 - John Davies, English poet (b. 1569)

★ December 10 - Edmund Gunter, English mathematician (b. 1581)
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