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2nd of February 1625. The "New Amsterdam" colony is founded by Belgian (then-Dutch) and French settlers.

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30th of January 1625. France: Soubise succeeds in leaving the port of Blavet where he was blocked by royal troops and seizes the island of Oléron.

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13th of January 1625. Brussels: The painter Jan Bruegel, known as "Velvet" Bruegel, dies. He is best known for his paintings of flowers and his allegorical scenes.

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9th of January 1625. Ben Jonson's masque "The Fortunate Isles and Their Union" (designed by Inigo Jones) is played before the English Court in London, becoming the last of the Jacobean era.

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January to March 1625. Ernst von Mansfeld's expedition with English troops proves abortive; disease and shortage of food leads to high death toll and much desertion.

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1st of January 1625. The King's Men act "Henry IV, Part 1" (described as "The First Part of Sir John Falstaff") at Whitehall Palace.

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31st of December 1624. The title of Baron Herbert of Castle Island is created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of Anglo-Welsh soldier, diplomat and poet Edward Herbert.

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30th of December 1624. Death of John Kendrick, English cloth merchant.

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1624. Frans Hals produces the painting later known as the "Laughing Cavalier".

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King's Men (playing company): On 27 December 1624, Sir Henry Herbert issued a list of the company's 21 hired men who could not be arrested or "press'd for soldiers" without the allowance of the Lord Chamberlain or the Master of the Revels.

24th of December 1624. Denmark's first postal service is launched by order of King Christian IV.

20th of December 1624. The King's Men provide Sir Henry Herbert (Master of the Revels) with a "submission," a written apology, signed by each actor who had taken part in "The Spanish Viceroy" earlier in the month.

12th to the 22nd of December, 1624. An Anglo-French treaty is concluded. Charles, Prince of Wales, will marry Henrietta Maria, daughter of Henry IV and Marie de Medici.

10th of December 1624. Creation of the Portuguese East India Company ("Companhia de Navegação e Comércio da India, Mina e Guiné") with the aim of challenging the maritime power of the Dutch, under the leadership of Jorge de Mascarenhas.

6th and 10th of December, 1624. France: Treaties with Venice and with the Duke of Savoy regarding the Valtellina.

5th of December 1624. Death of Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (b. 1560)

December 1624. The King's Men acting company get into further trouble for performing Philip Massinger's play "The Spanish Viceroy" without a licence from the Master of the Revels.

26th of November 1624. French troops of the Marquis of Cœuvre leave Chur to occupy or "liberate" the Valtellina to the detriment of Austria and Spain (to February 1625). The Valtellina returns under the authority of the Protestant Grisons.

24th of November 1624. Edinburgh: The city is hit by an epidemic of plague, believed to have been brought by a Danish merchant ship.

11th of November 1624. The Pomeranian municipality of Rügenwalde falls victim to a major fire in which, among other things, the Marienkirche is completely destroyed.

3rd of November 1624. Rodrigo Pacheco becomes the Viceroy of New Spain after arriving in Mexico City.

2nd of November 1624. Scheduled start date of the second session of the 4th Parliament of King James I, but it is prorogued before opening to 16 February 1625.

25th of October 1624. Det Norske Jernkompani is granted a royal privilege, granting the company almost a monopoly on iron production on an industrial scale within Norway.

21st of October 1624. Treaty of Susa. Offensive league between France, Venice and Savoy against the Republic of Genoa after the latter acquired the Marquisate of Zuccarello from the Emperor.

4th of October 1624. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, orders the expulsion of all Protestant pastors and teachers from Upper Austria.

4th of October 1624. Philip IV of Spain creates the "Almirantazgo" or Admiralty of Seville responsible for organizing convoys between Flanders and Spain; it is used in the fight against smuggling from the United Provinces to Spain.

3rd of October 1624. A combined squadron of fifteen Neapolitan (Spain), Tuscan, and Papal galleys defeated a squadron of six Algerian ships off the island of San Pietro, near Sardinia.

3rd of October, 1624. Étienne I d'Aligre became Grand Chancellor of France.

29th of September 1624. The Spanish priest Simón de Rojas died, aged 71. The honours bestowed on him at his funeral took on the aspect of an anticipated canonisation. For twelve days, the most renowned preachers of Madrid exalted his virtues and his holiness.

24th of September 1624. Co Londonderry: In the wake of his government's failure to find sufficient English settlers, King James approves the reform of the plantation here.

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9th of January 1625. Ben Jonson's masque "The Fortunate Isles and Their Union" (designed by Inigo Jones) is played before the English Court in London, becoming the last of the Jacobean era.

1624. Frans Hals produces the painting later known as the "Laughing Cavalier".