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★09 Oct 1594
Sinhalese–Portuguese War: Portugal had almost conquered the island of Sri Lanka when its army was essentially annihilated, ending the Campaign of Danture.

★15 May 1602
English explorer Bartholomew Gosnold led the first recorded European expedition to visit Cape Cod in present-day Massachusetts.

★12 Mar 1622
Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Jesuits, were canonized by Pope Gregory XV.

★22 May 1629
Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Danish King Christian IV signed the Treaty of Lübeck to end Danish intervention in the Thirty Years' War.

★08 Apr 1630
Kiliaen van Rensselaer purchased land near present-day Albany, New York, to found the Manor of Rensselaerswyck, which became the most successful patroonship under the Dutch West India Company system.

★15 Apr 1638
A rebellion by Catholic Japanese peasants in Shimabara over increased taxes was put down by the Tokugawa shogunate, resulting in greater enforcement of the policy of national seclusion.

★22 Aug 1642
King Charles I raised the royal standard at Nottingham, marking the beginning of the First English Civil War.

★28 May 1644
English Civil War: Royalist troops allegedly slaughtered up to 1,600 people during their storm and capture of the town of Bolton.

★03 Sep 1650
Under Oliver Cromwell, the English New Model Army ambushed a poorly prepared Scottish force at the Battle of Dunbar, the first battle of the Third English Civil War.

★12 Jan 1659
The fort at Allahabad was surrendered to the forces of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb.

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