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Historical Events in 1644

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Jan 18 Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's 1st UFO sighting
Jan 24 Parliamentary army wins battle of Nantwich, Cheshire, English Civil War
Feb 5 Connecticut passes the first US livestock branding law

Abel Tasman's Second Voyage

Feb 29 Abel Tasman sets out on his second exploratory expedition for the VOC to the southern Pacific from Banda, in the Moluccas, with three ships (will chart northern coast of New Holland / Australia)[1]

Mar 7 Massachusetts establishes 1st two-chamber legislature in colonies
Mar 14 England grants a patent to Providence Plantations for what is now Rhode Island
Mar 19 Two hundred members of the Peking imperial family and court commit suicide out of loyalty to the last Ming Emperor, Chongzhen
Mar 31 Pope Urbanus VIII and Duke of Parma sign Peace of Ferrara

Emperor Chongzhen Hangs Himself

Apr 25 Last Ming EmperorChongzhen hangs himself from a tree on Jing Mountain, Beijing, rather than be captured by forces of Li Zicheng

Apr 29 Farm leader Li Zicheng becomes Emperor of China and flees Peking
May 6 Johan Mauritius resigns as governor of Brazil
May 23 Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists
May 27 Battle of Shanhai Pass: Li Zicheng's army defeated by combined Ming and Manchu force
May 28 Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of the Earl of Derby (English Civil War)
Jun 11 Florentine scientist Evangelista Torricelli describes his invention of the mercury barometer in 1643 in a letter to Michelangelo Ricci
Jul 2 Battle of Marston Moor, North Yorkshire: Parliamentary forces under Lords Fairfax and Manchester defeat royalists led by Prince Rupert
Sep 2 Robert Devereux's Parliamentarian infantry surrenders to Royalist forces in Battle of Lostwithiel, Cornwall, during English Civil War

Conquest of Sas of Gen

Sep 5 Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange conquers Sas van Gent and absorbs it into the Dutch Republic

Pope Innocent X

Sep 15 Giambattista Pamfili replaces Pope Urban VIII asInnocent X

Sep 17 French troops occupy Mainz
Sep 28 Knights of Malta attack Ottoman convoy of ships that include Chief Black Eunuch and pilgrims for Mecca, killing or selling all into slavery, brings about the Cretan War a year later
Oct 23 Sea battle of Fehmarn Sont: Adm Thijssen beats Denen