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=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 21]] &ndash; Spanish-born Jesuit missionary [[Pedro Páez]] becomes (probably) the first European to see and describe the source of the [[Blue Nile]] in [[Ethiopia]].<ref>{{cite book|first=E. A. Wallis|last=Budge|authorlink=E. A. Wallis Budge|title=A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia|orig-date=1928|location=Oosterhout|publisher=Anthropological Publications|year=1970|page=397}}</ref>
* [[May 23]] &ndash;  The [[Defenestrations of Prague|Second Defenestration of Prague]] &ndash; Protestant noblemen hold a mock trial, and throw two direct representatives of [[Ferdinand II of Germany]] (Imperial Governors) and their scribe out of a window into a pile of manure, exacerbating a low-key rebellion into the [[Thirty Years' War#1618–1621|Bohemian Revolt (1618–1621)]], precipitating the [[Thirty Years' War]] into armed conflict, and further polarizing Europe on religious grounds.
* [[June 14]] &ndash; Joris Veseler prints the first Dutch newspaper ''[[Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c.]]'' in [[Amsterdam]] (approximate date).