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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1600s 1610s 1620s – 1630s – 1640s 1650s 1660s
Years:	1635 1636 1637 – 1638 – 1639 1640 1641

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February 28 – The Scottish National Covenant is signed in Edinburgh.
March 3 – A mercenary army under Bernard de Saxe-Weimar fighting for France defeats imperial forces at the Battle of Rheinfelden.
March 5 – Thirty Years' War – The Treaty of Hamburg is signed by France and Sweden.
March 29 – Settlers from Sweden arrive on the ships Kalmar Nyckel and Fogel Grip to establish the settlement of New Sweden in Delaware, beginning the Swedish colonization of the Americas.
March – Anne Hutchinson is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for heresy and goes to Rhode Island.
April 3 – John Wheelwright is banished from Boston and founds Exeter, New Hampshire.
April 15 – Shogunate forces defeat the last remnants of the Shimabara Rebellion in the fortress of Hara.
May 23 – Signing of the Kandyan Treaty between the Singhala King Rajasimha II and the Dutch to rid Ceylon of the Portuguese.
June 20 – Spanish troops under Ferdinand of Austria defeat a much larger Dutch force near Antwerp at the Battle of Kallo during the Eighty Years War.
June 27 – Patriarch Cyril of Constantinople is deposed for high treason and strangled and thrown into the sea by Janissaries on Ottoman Sultan Murad IV's command.

September 21 – The Treaty of Hartford is signed, ending the Pequot War between British American colonists and the Pequot.
September– John Spofford arrives in Boston Harbor on the ship John of London and is one of the first people to establish Rowely, Essex County, Massachusetts.
October 21 – The Great Thunderstorm breaks out in Widecombe-in-the-Moor, England.
November – The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland is summoned to Glasgow by King Charles I of England.
December 18 – Mazarin becomes first adviser to French potentate Richelieu on the death of Leclerc du Tremblay.
December 21 – The full moon is in total eclipse from 1:12 to 2:47 UT and the solstice occurs later in the day at 16:05 UT.

Covenanters meet at Muchalls Castle to compose responses to the Bishops of Aberdeen.
The Dutch settle in Ceylon.
Pedro Teixeira makes the first ascent of the Amazon River, from its mouth to Quito, Ecuador. The same trip had been made in the opposite direction in 1541.
Dutch merchant Willem Kieft is appointed Director of New Amsterdam by the Dutch West India Company.
The Netherlands colonizes Mauritius.
Shipwrecked sailors from England found the first known European settlement in Belize.
The Finnish postal service, Suomen Posti, is founded.
New Haven, the first planned city in America, is founded.
The Beijing Gazette makes an official switch in its production process of newspapers, from woodblock printing to movable type printing; private newspapers in Ming Dynasty China were first mentioned in 1582.
Sultan Murad IV captures Baghdad.
Shah Jahan transfers the capital of the Moghul Empire from Agra to Delhi.
Buccaneer Peter Wallace called "Ballis" by the Spanish, settles near and perhaps gives his name to the Belize River.

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