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* The [[Accademia del Cimento]] is founded in [[Florence]], Italy.
* England's first chocolate house is opened in London<ref>{{cite web |title=Chocolate Arrives in England |url=http://www.cadbury.co.uk/cadburyandchocolate/historyofchocolate/Pages/chocengland.aspx |publisher=[[Cadbury]] |access-date=2012-02-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120202030731/http://www.cadbury.co.uk/cadburyandchocolate/historyofchocolate/Pages/chocengland.aspx |archive-date=February 2, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all}}</ref> and introduction of [[Tea in the United Kingdom|tea in England]]<ref>{{cite book|first=William H.|last=Ukers|title=All About Tea|volume=I|url=https://archive.org/details/AllAboutTeaV2|location=New York|publisher=The Tea and Coffee Trade Journal|year=1935|page=38}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url={{google books|id=_TR_PQAACAAJ|page=169|plainurl=yes}}|title=The True History of Tea|last1=Mair|first1=Victor H.|last2=Hoh|first2=Erling|publisher=Thames & Hudson|location=London; New York|year=2009|isbn=978-0-500-25146-1|page=169}}</ref> while [[coffee]] is introduced to France.
* [[Christiaan Huygens]] writes the first book to be published on [[probability theory]], ''De ratiociniis in ludo aleae'' ("On Reasoning in Games of Chance").
* [[Andreas Gryphius]]' drama ''[[Katharina von Georgien]]'' is published in [[Breslau]].
* [[Thomas Middleton]]'s tragedy ''[[Women Beware Women]]'' (c. 1623–24) is published posthumously in London.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology267268"/></onlyinclude>