PEACH

History

1622

Population: 543 Million*

Entertainment: Writers include Philip Maddinger and Thomas Dekker (tragedy), Charles Sorel (French burlesque novel), Alessandro Tassoni (mock0heroic poem), Francis Bacon (reign of Henry VII), Jacob Bohme,
Art includes Guido Reni "Job", Reubens "The Medici Cycle",
Culture: Camillo Baldo writes treatise on how to determine personality through handwriting
Religion: End of Moravian Brotherhood – Anabaptists
Pope Gregory XV canonizes Philip Neri and grants Piarists a constitution
Papal chancellery adopts Jan 1 as beginning of the year (not March 25th)
St. Teresa of Ávila canonized
Science: Bacon writes about natural history and experimentation
Edmund Gunter discovers fluctuations of magnetic north
Deaths: Geneva Bishop St. Francis de Sales, Explorer William Baffin, Explorer John Rolfe killed by American natives

China: Dutch fail to defeat Portuguese at Macao (China) an settle in Pescadores Islands
Japan: Execution of Christian missionaries in Japan at height – driven out and persecuted to 1624

General: Ferdinand II and Bethlen Gabor sign peace treaty
Count Tilly defeated at battle of Wiesloch – defeats George Frederick of Baden at battle of Wimpfen and Christian of Brunswick at battle of Hochst (Rochst) and Wimpfen
Spain occupies Valtelline Pass – war with France - early Thirty Years' War
England: James I dissolves English parliament
Weekly news issued in London for first time
Architect Inigo Jones completes Banqueting House in London
France: Richelieu recalled by Louis XIII to the council – made Cardinal
Treaty of Montpellier ends rebellion of the Huguenots
German States: Benedictine U of Salzburg founded
Bruges-Dunkirk Canal finished
Holy Roman Empire: Mannheim surrenders to imperial army
Spain: Count Olivares becomes chief minister