Editing 1624 (section)

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 14]] &ndash; After 90 years of [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] occupation, [[Baghdad]] is recaptured by the [[Safavid empire|Safavid Empire]].
* [[January 22]] &ndash; Korean General [[Yi Gwal]] leads [[Yi Gwal's Rebellion|an uprising of 12,000 soldiers]] against [[King Injo]] in what is called then the [[Joseon Kingdom]], and occupies [[Hanseong]].
* [[January 24]] &ndash; [[Afonso Mendes]], appointed by [[Pope Gregory XV]] as Prelate of [[Ethiopia]], arrives at [[Massawa]] from [[Goa]].
* [[February 7]] &ndash; (January 28, 1623/4 old style) England first colonizes [[Saint Kitts and Nevis]].
* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[Yi Gwal]] installs Prince Heungan, son of the late [[Seonjo of Joseon|King Seongjo]], to the Korean throne.
* [[February 15]] &ndash; [[Yi Gwal's Rebellion]] ends as the rebels murder [[Yi Gwal]] at the town of Mukbang-ri.
* [[February 16]] &ndash; [[Kara Mustafa Pasha]] becomes the [[Ottoman Governor of Egypt]] for the second time.
* [[February 19]]
**[[Philip IV of Spain|King Filipe III]] of [[Portugal]] issues a decree [[Slavery in Portugal|prohibiting the enslavement of Chinese people]] in Portugal or in its colonies.<ref>Gary João de Pina-Cabral, ''Between China and Europe: person, culture and emotion in Macao'' (Berg Publishers, 2002) p. 114</ref>
**The [[4th Parliament of King James I|last parliament]] of King [[James I of England]] begins its session.
* [[February 28]] &ndash; A decree is issued in [[Norway]] making it illegal for [[Jesuit]]s or Roman Catholic monks to be harbored in the country.
* [[March 2]] &ndash; The English House of Commons passes a resolution making it [[Resignation from the House of Commons of the United Kingdom|illegal for a Member of Parliament (MP) to quit or willfully give up his seat]]. Afterward, MPs who wish to quit are appointed to an "[[office of profit]]", a [[legal fiction]] to allow a resignation.
* [[March 25]] &ndash; In a ceremony,  [[Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor]], renews his oath to restore Catholicism in Germany, Bohemia, Hungary and Croatia.

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 13]] &ndash; [[Garcia I of Kongo|Garcia Mvemba a Nkanga]] is enthroned as King Garcia I of the southern African nation of [[Kingdom of Kongo|Kongo]] (now in [[Angola]]), upon the death of his father, [[Pedro II of Kongo|King Pedro II]]. 
* [[April 15]] &ndash; The [[University of Saint Francis Xavier]] is founded in [[Bolivia]].
* [[April 29]] &ndash; [[Louis XIII of France]] appoints [[Cardinal Richelieu]] to the ''[[Conseil du Roi]]'' (Royal Council).
* [[May 8]] &ndash; [[Capture of Bahia]]: A [[Dutch West India Company]] fleet captures the Brazilian city of [[Salvador, Bahia]] from the [[Portuguese Empire]] (at this time in the [[Iberian Union]]).
* [[May 11]] &ndash; a [[1624 Fez earthquake|major earthquake in Fez, Morocco]], estimated magnitude 6.0 {{M|w|link=yes}}, causes severe damage and thousands of casualties.
* [[May 24]]
**  The city of [[Oslo]], Norway, is destroyed by fire for the fourteenth time.<ref name=Fires>"Fires, Great", in ''The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance'', Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p29</ref>  King [[Christian IV of Denmark]]–Norway decrees its rebuilding on a new site, where it will be renamed ''Christiania''.
** After years of unprofitable operation, [[Colony of Virginia|Virginia]]'s charter is revoked, and it becomes a royal colony.  
* [[May 25]] &ndash; The Scottish city of [[Dunfermline]] is destroyed by fire, but [[Dunfermline Abbey|The Abbey]], [[Dunfermline Palace|The Palace]], the [[Abbot House, Dunfermline|Abbot House]] and many other buildings survive.
* [[May]] &ndash; The first Dutch settlers arrive in [[New Netherland]]; they disembark at [[Governors Island]].
* [[June 10]] &ndash; [[Treaty of Compiègne]] is signed between the [[Kingdom of France]] and the [[Dutch Republic]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Richard Bonney|title=The King's Debts: Finance and Politics in France 1589-1661|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_M9nAAAAMAAJ|year=1981|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-822563-8|page=122|language=en}}</ref>

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 30]] &ndash; A contingent of 5,000 Chinese troops and 50 warships under the command of Admiral [[Yu Zigao]] and General Wang Mengxiong [[Sino-Dutch conflicts#1620s|attacks the Dutch fortress]] at the island of Magong, the largest of the [[Penghu]] islands under the command of [[Martinus Sonck]].  Outnumbered, the Dutch surrender in five days.  
* [[August 4]] &ndash; The [[Dutch East India Company]] agrees to Chinese demands to withdraw its operations from the [[Penghu]] islands, and relocates its trading post to [[Fort Zeelandia (Taiwan)|Fort Zeelandia]] and the Dutch-controlled island of [[Dutch Formosa|Formosa]], now [[Tainan]] on [[Taiwan]].  
* [[August 5]] &ndash; [[King's Men (playing company)|The King's Men]] perform [[Thomas Middleton]]'s [[satire]] ''[[A Game at Chess]]'' at the [[Globe Theatre]] in London. The performances are suppressed on August 14 in view of the play's allusions to the [[Spanish Match]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Trevor Howard Howard-Hill|title=Middleton's "Vulgar Pasquin": Essays on A Game at Chess|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vy8zmR4yupEC&pg=PA156|year=1995|publisher=University of Delaware Press|isbn=978-0-87413-534-3|pages=156|language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 13]] &ndash; [[Cardinal Richelieu]] is appointed by [[Louis XIII of France]] to be his [[chief minister of France|chief minister]], having intrigued against [[Charles de La Vieuville]], [[Superintendent of Finances]], arrested for corruption the previous day.
* [[August 24]] &ndash; [[List of fatalities while playing cricket|Jasper Vinall]] becomes the first person to die while playing the sport of [[cricket]], after being struck on the head with a bat during a game at [[Horsted Keynes]] in [[England]]. <ref>Tim McCann, ''Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century'' (Sussex Record Society, 2004) pp.xxxiii–xxxiv</ref>
* [[August 28]] &ndash; The [[Siege of Breda (1624)|Siege of Breda]] begins, and will continue for just over 9 months until June 5, 1625.
* [[August]] &ndash; Portuguese [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] priest [[António de Andrade]] becomes the first European to enter [[Tibet]], arriving at [[Tsaparang]]. <ref>Cornelius Wessels, ''Early Jesuit Travellers in Central Asia, 1603-1721'' (Martinus Nijhoff, 1924) p. 63</ref> 
* [[September 4]] &ndash;  The [[Parlement of Paris]] registers a decree forbidding the publication of criticism of "anciently approved authors" without prior approval from the Faculty of Theology of the University of Paris, on pain of death.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kahn |first=Didier |date=2002 |title=La condamnation des thèses d'Antoine de Villon et Étienne de Clave contre Aristote, Paracelse et les « cabalistes » (1624) |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23633673 |journal=Revue d'histoire des sciences |volume=55 |issue=2 |pages=143–198 |issn=0151-4105}}</ref>
* [[September 13]] &ndash; [[Ketevan the Martyr|Ketevan]], former [[queen consort]] of [[Kingdom of Kakheti|Kakheti]] (located around [[Gremi]] in what is now the Republic of Georgia), is tortured and killed in the Persian city of [[Shiraz]] after refusing to renounce Christianity to convert to [[Islam]].
* [[September 19]] &ndash; [[Michael of Russia|Michael I]], the [[Tsar of Russia]], is married at Moscow, making [[Maria Dolgorukova]] the Tsaritsa. Maria becomes ill shortly afterward and dies five months after the marriage, on January 17.
* [[September 21]] &ndash; The Roman Catholic church's [[Dicastery for the Clergy]] issues a decree that no monk may be expelled from his order "unless he be truly incorrigible."

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 3]] &ndash; A combined squadron of fifteen [[Naples|Neapolitan]] (Spain), Tuscan, and Papal [[galley]]s defeat a squadron of six Algerian ships on the [[San Pietro Island|island of San Pietro]], near [[Sardinia]]. ([[Action of 3 October 1624|details]])
* [[November 3]] &ndash; [[Rodrigo Pacheco, 3rd Marquess of Cerralvo|Rodrigo Pacheco]] becomes the [[Viceroy of New Spain]] after arriving in [[Mexico City]]. 
* [[December 24]] &ndash; [[Denmark]]'s first postal service is launched by order of King [[Christian IV of Denmark|Christian IV]].

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* The Japanese ''[[shōgun]]'' expels the Spanish from Japan, and severs trade with the [[Philippines]].
* [[Henry Briggs (mathematician)|Henry Briggs]] publishes ''Arithmetica Logarithmica''.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Professor of History Mordechai Feingold|author2=Mordechai Feingold|title=The Mathematician's Apprenticeship: Science, Universities and Society in England 1560-1640|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7q48AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA141|date=9 February 1984|publisher=CUP Archive|isbn=978-0-521-25133-4|pages=141}}</ref>
* [[Jakob Bartsch]] first publishes a chart, showing the constellation [[Camelopardalis]] around the [[North Star]].
* Queen [[Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba]] starts to rule.
* [[Frans Hals]] produces the painting later known as the ''[[Laughing Cavalier]]''.<ref>[[Wallace Collection]], London.</ref>
* The German-language [[Luther Bible]] is publicly burned, by order of the Pope.
* A confrontation between Swedish and Danish councillors ends with a Swedish diplomatic victory due to Sweden's ability to mobilize quickly.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lockhart |first=Paul Douglas |date=2004 |title=Sweden in the Seventeenth Century |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-0-230-80255-1 |journal=SpringerLink |language=en | quote= The reforms, by providing Sweden with military forces that were simultaneously professional, native, and easy to mobilize, paid immediate and handsome dividends. When Swedish and Danish councillors confronted one another in the tense showdown at Knäröd in 1624 (see Chapter 3), it was Sweden’s ability to mobilize its forces at a moment’s notice that made possible a diplomatic victory over wealthier Denmark. |doi=10.1007/978-0-230-80255-1|isbn=978-0-333-73157-4 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
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