Year was a Leap Year Starting On Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Year Starting On Friday of the 10-day slower Julian Calendar ).
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- August 24 - The first official English representative to India lands at Surat .
- September 10 - John Smith is elected Council President of Jamestown, and begins expanding the fort.
- September 21 - Founding of the University Of Oviedo , Spain.
- October 1 - At Jamestown , a second supply ship, the ''Mary and Margaret'', arrives with Christopher Newport, including 70 settlers, bringing the population back up to 120; the passengers include 8 glassmen.
- October 2 - Dutch Lens maker Hans Lippershey demonstrates the first Telescope in the Dutch Parliament .
- Year end - Jamestown : Christopher Newport returns to England carrying cargo with "tryals of Pitch, Tarre, Glasse, Frankincense, Sope Ashes ..."
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- January 28 - Giovanni Alfonso Borelli , Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679 )
- February 6 - Antonio Vieira , Portuguese writer (d. 1697 )
- April 25 - Gaston, Duke Of Orléans , third son of King Henry IV Of France (d. 1660 )
- June - Richard Fanshawe , English diplomat (d. 1666 )
- July 13 - Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1657 )
- July 14 - George Goring, Lord Goring , English Royalist soldier (d. 1657 )
- October 15 - Evangelista Torricelli , Italian physicist and mathematician (d. 1647 )
- December 6 - George Monck, 1st Duke Of Albemarle , English soldier (d. 1670 )
- December 9 - John Milton , English poet (d. 1674 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- Daniello Bartoli , Italian Jesuit priest (d. 1685 )
- --- John Desborough , English soldier and politician (d. 1680 )
- --- Thomas Fuller , English churchman and historian (d. 1661 )
- --- Jin Shengtan , Chinese editor (d. 1661 )
- --- Edward Rainbowe , English clergyman and a preacher (d. 1684 )
- --- Eudoxia Streshneva , Tsarina of Mikhail I Of Russia (d. 1645 )
- --- Torii Tadaharu , Japanese nobleman (d. 1651 )
: ''See also .''
- January - Nikita Kosoj Trubetsky , Polish Prince
- January 29 - Frederick I, Duke Of Württemberg (b. 1557 )
- February 13 - Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski , Lithuanian prince (b. 1526 )
- February 13 - Bess Of Hardwick , Countess of Shrewsbury (b. 1527 )
- February 26 - John Still , English bishop (b. c 1543 )
- March 12 - Koriki Kiyonaga , Japanese warlord (b. 1530 )
- April 19 - Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl Of Dorset , English statesman and poet (b. 1536 )
- May 14 - Charles III, Duke Of Lorraine (b. 1543 )
- June 19 - Alberico Gentili , Italian jurist (b. 1551 )
- July 18 - Joachim Friedrich , Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1546 )
- August 13 - Giambologna , Italian sculptor (b. 1529 )
- October 11 - Giovanni Ambrogio Figino , Italian painter (b. c 1549 )
- October 19
- --- Martin Delrio , Flemish theologian and occultist (b. 1551 )
- --- Geoffrey Fenton , English writer and politician (b. c 1539 )
- December
- --- John Dee , British mathematician, astronomer, and geographer (born 1527 )
- --- William Davison , secretary to Queen Elizabeth I Of England (born c 1541 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- George Bannatyne , collector of Scottish poems (b. 1545 )
- --- William Barclay , Scottish jurist (b. 1546 )
- --- Luca Bati , Italian composer (b. 1546 )
- --- Laurence Tomson , English Calvinist theologian (b. 1539 )
- --- Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl Of Tyrconnell (b. 1575 )
- --- Fiodor Trubetsky , Polish prince
- --- Edmund Whitelocke , English soldier and courtier (b. 1565 )
: ''See also .''
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