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Events

= January–March =

  • January 12 – Şehzade Mehmed, the 15-year old half-brother of Ottoman Sultan Osman II, is put to death by hanging on Osman's orders. Before dying, Mehmed prays aloud that Osman's reign as Sultan be ruined.
  • January 18 – The Dutch East India Company formally names its fortress at Jayakarta in Indonesia, calling it Batavia. Upon the independence of the Dutch East Indies as Indonesia in 1945, Batavia will be renamed Jakarta.
  • January 22 – The Tianqi era begins in Ming Dynasty China, six months after Zhu Changluo becomes the Taichang Emperor.
  • January 24 – Twelve days after the murder of Prince Mehmed on orders of Sultan Osman II, Constantinople is hit by bitter winter weather, leading to rioting by persons who believe that the punishment of Osman is the will of Allah.
  • January 28 – Pope Paul V (Camillo Borghese) dies at the age of 70 after 15 years as Pontiff.
  • January 29 – Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, declares the Elector of the Palatinate, Frederick V, to be a traitor to the Empire.
  • February 9 – Papal Conclave of 1621: Pope Gregory XV succeeds Pope Paul V, as the 234th pope.
  • February 17 – Myles Standish is appointed as the first commander of Plymouth Colony.{{cite book |title=Mayflower: A Story of Community, Courage and War |last=Philbrick |first=Nathaniel |author-link=Nathaniel Philbrick |year=2006 |place=New York |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=978-0-14-311197-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qk9AXww_XysC|page=84}}
  • March 16 – Samoset, a Mohegan, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them: "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
  • March 22 – The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.
  • March 31 – King Philip IV of Spain begins his 44-year rule.{{cite book|author=Claudio Monteverdi|title=The Letters of Claudio Monteverdi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tBVL9_1__ioC&pg=PA227|date=31 October 1980|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-23591-4|pages=227}}

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  • The Venezuelan city of Petare is founded by Spanish conquistadors, as San Jose de Guanarito.
  • The Swedish city of Gothenburg is founded by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.{{cite book|author1=Maurice Willmore Barley|author2=Council for British Archaeology|title=European towns: their archaeology and early history|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SLYnAAAAYAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Published for the Council for British Archaeology by Academic Press|isbn=978-0-12-078850-7|page=117}} The king also grants city rights to Luleå, Piteå and Torneå (Tornio). Riga falls under the rule of Sweden.
  • Tamblot rallies an unknown, large number of people in Bohol, Captaincy General of the Philippines to revolt against the Spanish Empire.{{cite book |title= Philippine Political and Cultural History: The Philippines Since Pre-Spanish Times|last=Zaide|first=Gregorio|year=1949|volume=1 |location= Manila |publisher=R.P. Garcia Publishing Company|pages=348}}
  • The Dutch East India Company sends 2,000 soldiers, under the command of Jan Pieterszoon Coen, to the Banda Islands, in order to force the local inhabitants to accept the Dutch trade monopoly on the lucrative nutmeg, grown almost exclusively on those islands. The soldiers proceed to massacre most of the 15,000 indigenous inhabitants.

Births

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Deaths

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  • January 15 – Christopher Pickering, British politician (b. 1556){{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/pickering-christopher-1556-1621|title=PICKERING, Christopher (c.1556-1621), of Threlkeld, Cumb.; later of Ormside alias Prinshead, Westmld.|website=History of Parliament|access-date=20 May 2018}}
  • January 28 – Pope Paul V (b. 1552){{cite book|author=Kenneth Meyer Setton|title=Venice, Austria, and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XN51y209fR8C&pg=PA37|year=1991|publisher=American Philosophical Society|isbn=978-0-87169-192-7|pages=37|language=en}}
  • January 29 – Francis Taylor, Mayor of Dublin, Ireland (b. c. 1550)
  • February 10 – Pietro Aldobrandini, Italian cardinal, patron of the arts (b. 1571)
  • February 15 – Michael Praetorius, German composer (b. 1571){{cite book|author1=Selma Jeanne Cohen|author2=George E. Dorris|title=International Encyclopedia of Dance: A Project of Dance Perspectives Foundation, Inc|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jgYKAQAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-512309-8|page=244|language=en}}
  • February 16 – Sir Thomas Gerard, 1st Baronet, English Member of Parliament (b. 1560)
  • February 28 – Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1590){{cite web |title=Cosimo II {{!}} grand duke of Tuscany {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cosimo-II |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=3 January 2022 |language=en}}
  • March 4 – Ana de Jesús, Spanish Discalced Carmelite nun, spiritual writer and Servant of God (b. 1545)
  • March 8 – Enevold Kruse, Danish noble (b. 1554)
  • March 27 – Benedetto Giustiniani, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1554)
  • March 28 – Ottavio Rinuccini, Italian composer (b. 1562)
  • March 31 – King Philip III of Spain, (Philip II of Portugal) (b. 1578){{cite book|author=Frederick Charles Danvers|title=The Portuguese in India: Being a History of the Rise and Decline of Their Eastern Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MwOV-eenKy0C&pg=PA219|year=1988|publisher=Asian Educational Services|isbn=978-81-206-0391-2|pages=219|language=en}}

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