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EVENTS

The '' Sea Venture '' is wrecked in Bermuda - thought to be the inspiration for Shakespeare's '' The Tempest ''.

William Ames delivers a controversial sermon on St Thomas's Day.

Samuel Daniel completes the eighth and last book of his epic poem, ''Civil Wars''.

Jacques Auguste De Thou 's ''Historia sui temporis'' is placed on the '' Index Librorum Prohibitorum ''.

The ''Sala Fredericiana'', the first reading room of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, opens to the public.

Francis Tregian is imprisoned for his Catholic sympathies, and begins copying out the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book .

NEW BOOKS

Douai Bible

Thomas Middleton - ''Sir Robert Sherley his Entertainmnt in Cracovia'' (translation)

Thomas Dekker - ''Fourre Birds of Noahs Arke'' and ''The Gul's Hornebooke''

NEW DRAMA

William Shakespeare - '' The Winter's Tale ''

BIRTHS

February 10 - Sir John Suckling , poet

February 18 - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon , historian

August 19 - Jean Rotrou , dramatist

October 5 - Paul Fleming , poet

December 24 - Philip Warwick , politician and memoirist

''date unknown'' - Gerrard Winstanley , political writer

''probable'' - Gauthier De Costes, Seigneur De La Calprenède , novelist and dramatist

DEATHS

January 21 - Joseph Justus Scaliger , French Protestant writer

March 9 - William Warner , poet

August 22 - Judah Loew Ben Bezalel , Jewish mystic and philosopher

October 19 - Jacobus Arminius , theologian

December 4 - Alexander Hume , poet

December - Barnabe Barnes , poet

''probable'' - Mateo Alemán , Spanish novelist and man of letters