1624

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  • January 24 - Alfonso Mendez, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa.
  • The Netherlands establish a trading colony at Kaohsiung on Taiwan.
  • Thirty Walloon families settle in the New Netherland colony.
  • Oslo is destroyed by fire. When rebuilt by Christian IV, it would be renamed Christiania.
  • Claudio Monteverdi publishes Tancredi e Clorinda.
  • Jean Louis Guez de Balzac publishes his Lettres.
  • Bernardo de Balbuena publishes El Bernardo.
  • Santa Rosalia makes a miraculous appearance during a plague in Palermo.
  • Kalmia latifolia (mountain laurel) first recorded in America.
  • Jakob Bartsch records the constellation Camelopardalis.
  • Dr Challoner's Grammar School is founded.
  • The Palace of Versailles is first built, as a hunting lodge.
  • Chateau Cheverny begins construction.
  • Pembroke College, Oxford founded.
  • The Japanese Shogun expels Spanish from the land and severs trade with the Philippines
  • Mail service begins in Denmark
  • University founded in Bolivia
  • War between England and Spain
  • Cornelius Drebbel discover gases
  • Cardinal Richelieu appointed by Louis XIII to be his advisor
  • Henry Briggs publishes Arithmetica Logarithmica

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