History
1624
General
Population: 543 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Philip Massinger (drama), Thomas Middleton (comedy), Martin Opitz (German poetry), Captain John Smith (History of New England)
Art includes Bernini "Apollo and Daphne", Frans Hals "The Laughing Cavalier", Nicolas Poussin "Rape of the Sabine Women"
Music includes Marco da Gagliano, Monteverdi
- Mathematics: Henry Briggs writes "Arithmetica logarithmica"
- Religion: Lord Herbert of Cherbury writes foundation of English deism, John Donne writes about devotions
Pope Urban III ordered snuff users executed
- Science: Johannes Baptista van Helmont the Belgium scientist coins name "gas" for combustible fluid
Galileo travels to Rome to petition new pope
- Technology: Prototype submarine sails on Thames by Dutch scientist Cornelius Drebbel
- Deaths: Theologian and mystic Jakob Bohme,
Americas
- Brazil: Dutch fleet takes Bahia for a year
- Caribbean: First English settlers arrive in West Indies
Asia
- India: First English settlement in East
- Indonesia: Dutch monopoly of spice trade
- Japan: Saruwaka Kanzaburo opens first Japanese theater in Yedo
- Tibet: Antonio de Andrade leaves Jesuit mission at Agra to explore the Himalayas and Tibet
Europe
- General: England declares war on Spain
Thirty Years' War - Anglo-French treaty for Charles Prince of Wales to Mary Henrietta Maria daughter of Henry IV and Maria de'Medici
- England: James I convenes last parliament of his reign – monopolies declared illegal
Lionel Cranfield the Lord Treasurer of England impeached for bribery and is suspended
Thomas Middleton's comedy performed at Globe Theater – first "long-run"
Pembroke College at Oxford founded
- France: Cardinal Richelieu becomes first minister of France - becomes virtual dictator
Jacques Lemercier extends the Louvre in Paris
- German States: Territories secularized
East
- New Amsterdam: Dutch settle and bring first slaves to area
South
- Virginia: Virginia becomes crown colony as Virginia Company dissolves – Governor Sir Francis Wyatt again