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

★28 Feb 1638
The National Covenant was formally adopted in opposition to proposed reforms to the Church of Scotland by King Charles I.

★27 Mar 1638
The first of four strong earthquakes struck Calabria in southern Italy, which resulted in up to 30,000 combined deaths.

★09 Jul 1640
The Virginia Governor's Council made John Punch the first legally recognized slave in England's North American colonies.

★01 Jul 1643
The Westminster Assembly of Divines, assembled to restructure the Church of England, held its first meeting in Westminster Abbey, London.

★13 Jul 1643
English Civil War: Royalist forces defeated the Parliamentarians at the Battle of Roundway Down near Devizes, Wiltshire.

★24 Aug 1643
A Dutch expedition arrived at the mouth of the Valdivia River in what is now Chile, with the aim of establishing a new colony in the ruins of the abandoned Spanish settlement of Valdivia.

★25 Apr 1644
The Ming dynasty of China fell when the Chongzhen Emperor committed suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng.

★10 Jul 1645
English Civil War: The Parliamentarians destroyed the last Royalist field army at the Battle of Langport, ultimately giving Parliament control of the West of England.

★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.

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