March 4 – OnShrove Tuesday, angry rioters burn downLondon'sCockpit Theatre because of its increase in the price of admission to its plays. Three rioters are killed when the actors at the theater defend themselves.[3]
March 7 –Francis Bacon is appointed asLord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and is designated by King James I to serve as regent during the time that the King of England is away from Westminster to travel to Scotland.
March 21 –Pocahontas (Rebecka Rolfe), daughter of the Chief of thePowhatan Algonquian tribe in the English colony of Virginia and the wife of English colonistJohn Rolfe, dies ofsmallpox after an illness of three days contracted as the couple and their son were preparing to return to America. She is buried atGravesend.[4]
May 22 – Portuguese Christian Missionary João Baptista Machado de Távora is killed, becoming the first of the205 Martyrs of Japan.
May 24 – King James VI of Scotland authorizes the Scottish East India Company, led byLord Glencairn to trade to the East Indies, the Levant, Greenland, Muscovy and all other islands in the north, north-west and north-eastern seas. James VI is advised that the authorization is not in conflict with charters granted by him in his capacity as King James I of England to England's East India Company, the Levant Company, and the Muscovy Company.
May 27 – In Germany, the Prince-Bishops of Bamberg, Eichstädt and Würzburg, and the Prince-Provost of Ellwangen, withdraw their states from theCatholic League.
June 5 –Ferdinand II, Archduke of Inner Austria, is electedKing of Bohemia. Ferdinand's forceful Catholic counter-reformation causes great unrest, amongst the Protestants and moderates in Bohemia.
July 1 –Willem Schouten and the crew of the Dutch shipEendracht return to the Netherlands aftersailing around the world in two years and 17 days, in what is only the fourth circumnavigation of the globe, and the first since 1588. The expedition had departed fromTexel on June 14, 1615 under the command ofJacob Le Maire, who died on December 22, 1616, slightly more than six months before the return to the Netherlands.[8]
December 24 – An unexpected storm strikes off the coast ofFinnmark inNorway, sinking 10 ships and drowning at least 40 people. A little more than three years later, Mari Jørgensdatter tells interrogators that she and several other witches caused the storm, prompting theVardø witch trials.
^ Smith, John. The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles. 1624. Repr. in Jamestown Narratives, ed. Edward Wright Haile. Champlain, VA: Roundhouse, 1998, p. 261.
^ Elizabeth McClure Thomson, The Chamberlain Letters (London, 1966), p. 140.
^Charles Dudley Warner,Captain John Smith (1579–1631), Sometime Governor of Virginia, and Admiral of New England: A Study of His Life and Writings (Henry Holt and Company, 1881) p. 237 ("Yet there is no doubt, according to a record in the Calendar of State Papers, dated '1617 29 March, London,' that her death occurred March 21, 2017."
^An Historical Account of the Circumnavigation of the Globe: And of the Progress of Discovery in the Pacific Ocean, from the Voyage of Magellan to the Death of Cook (Harper & Brothers, 1837) p. 100
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