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World

Population: 543 Million*

Entertainment: Writers include Hugo Grotius De Jure Belli ac Pacis which becomes basis of international law, Honorat de Bueil (pastoral dialogues), Ben Johnson (comedy), Thomas Middleton (comedy), Joost van den Vondel (political drama), Francis Bacon
Art includes Nicholas Poussin "Parnassus"
Music includes Heinrich Schutz "Cantiones Sacrae"
Fashion: Introduction of full-bottomed wigs in Europe
Science: Johann Rdolf Glauber discovers Glauber's salt
Deaths: King James I of England, Artest Jan Brueghel (Velvet Brueghel), Poet Gaimbarrista Marini, Dramatist John Fletcher, Dramatist John Webster, Composer Orlando Gibbons,

Caribbean: French settlements in Caribbean begin at St. Christopher
French occupy Antilles and Cayenne
First English settlement on Barbados under Sir William Courteen

Denmark: Christian IV intervenes in 30 Years' War
England: End of reign of James I of England (James VI of Scotland) – start rule of Charles I – he marries Henrietta Maria sister of Louis XIII
Parliament later adjourns to Oxford because of plague in London
Sir Thomas Coventry made lord keeper
Daniel Mylens made court painter by Charles I
Inigo Jones creates Covent Garden Church in London
Colonial Office established in London
First fire engines in England
Hackney coaches appear in streets of London
Tobacco tax and tobacco monopoly in England
Parliament refuses to allow divine right (because of taxation) and Charles claims parliament lost its authority
France: Order of Sisters of Mercy founded in Paris by Vincent de Paul
German States: Tilly invades Lower Saxony
Holy Roman Empire: Wallenstein made general of the imperial forces by Emperor Ferdinand II – made Duke of Friedland
Matein Opitz crowned poet laureate in Vienna
Norway: Storm kills 210
Russia: Famous peal of bells installed in Kremlin Moscow
Spain: General Ambrogio Spinola takes Breda from Dutch after 11 month siege