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Events

February 5 - Roger Williams emigrates to Boston .

February 16 - Gustav Adolf Secondary School was founded in Tallinn , Estonia by Swedish king Gustav II Adolf .

May 10 - During the Thirty Years' War imperial troops storm the German city of Magdeburg and commit a massacre. About 20,000 inhabitants are killed.

May 18 - In Dorchester, Massachusetts , John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor Of Massachusetts .

June 20 - Algerian pirates Sack Baltimore, County Cork in Ireland .

October 10 - A Saxon army take over Prague .

Moses Amyraut 's ''Traite des Religions'' is published.

The bell "Emmanuel" in Notre Dame De Paris is recast.

Births

February 20 - Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke Of Leeds , English statesman (d. 1712 )

March 16 - René Le Bossu , French critic (d. 1680 )

May 2 - Sir John Murray , 1st Marquess of Atholl (d. 1703 )

July 15 - Jens Juel , Danish diplomat (d. 1700 )

August 19 - John Dryden , English writer (d. 1700 )

September 3 - William Stoughton , American judge at the Salem witch trials (d. 1701 )

November 4 - Mary, Princess Royal And Princess Of Orange (d. 1660 )

December 14 - Lady Anne Finch Conway , English philosopher (d. 1679 )

''See also .''

Deaths

March 31 - John Donne , English writer and prelate (b. 1572 )

May 6 - Robert Bruce Cotton , English politician

June 17 - Mumtaz Mahal , favorite wife of Shah Jahan (b. April 1593 )

July 28 - Guillén De Castro Y Bellvis , Spanish dramatist (b. 1569 )

December 23 - Michael Drayton , English poet (b. 1563 )

John Smith Of Jamestown , English soldier and colonist (b. 1580 )

''See also .''