| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 6 |
Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed |
Jan 14 |
1st Connecticut constitution (Fundamental Orders) adopted in Hartford, published by Rodger Ludlow |
Jan 24 |
Connecticut colony organizes under Fundamental Orders |
Feb 7 |
Academie Francaise begins Dictionary of French Language |
Mar 13 |
Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard |
May 8 |
William Coddington founds Newport RI |
May 20 |
Dorchester Mass, forms 1st school funded by local taxes |
Jun 6 |
Massachusetts grants 500 acres of land to erect a gunpowder mill |
Jun 10 |
1st American log cabin at Fort Christina (Wilmington Delaware) |
Jun 18 |
Treaty of Berwick: Ends the First Bishops' War between England and Scotland |
Jul 19 |
French troops occupy Salses, at Perpignan |
Aug 22 |
Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers. |
Sep 12 |
Viceroy Thomas Wentworth sails back to England |
Sep 25 |
First printing press in America |
Sep 25 |
Suzuki Shosan, Samurai monk of Zen Buddhism, found awakening |
Oct 21 |
Sea battle at Dunes, Lt Admiral Maarten Tromp defeats Spanish armada under De Oquendo |
Nov 5 |
First post office in the colonies is set up in Massachusetts |
Nov 24 |
1st observation of transit of Venus by Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree - helped establish size of the Solar System |
Dec 3 |
1st annulment by court decree passes |
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