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24th of April 1624. Count Mansfeld reaches London to raise a volunteer army to fight for the Elector Palatine in Germany.

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15th of April 1624. Sweden: The city of Sala is granted town privileges by Gustaf II Adolf.

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15th of April 1624. The University of Saint Francis Xavier is founded in Bolivia.

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13th of April 1624. Garcia Mvemba a Nkanga is enthroned as King Garcia I of the southern African nation of Kongo (now in Angola), upon the death of his father, King Pedro II.

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April or May 1624. The Dutch establish a new settlement in New Netherland, Fort Orange. The present-day city of Albany, New York developed at this site.

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30th of March 1624. Departure from Agra, India, of the Portuguese Jesuit Antonio de Andrade who crosses the Himalayan range from the west and enters Tibet. In August, he was received by the king of Guge in the royal city of Tsaparang.

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25th of March 1624. In a ceremony, Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, renews his oath to restore Catholicism in Germany, Bohemia, Hungary and Croatia.

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10th of March 1624. King James of England agrees to declare war on Spain, and allows Count Mansfeldt, the Protestant general in Germany, to enlist 12,000 soldiers in England for service on the Protestant side in the Thirty Years' War.

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5th of March 1624. Virginia: Class-based legislation is passed, exempting the upper classes from punishment by whipping.

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2nd of March 1624. The English House of Commons passes a resolution making it illegal for a Member of Parliament (MP) to quit or willfully give up his seat. Afterward, MPs who wish quit are appointed to an "office of profit", a legal fiction to allow a resignation.

March 1624. Plymouth: First cattle in colony brought from England by Edward Winslow.

March 1624. Ernst von Mansfeld's force failed to recover the Palatinate.

28th of February 1624. Norway: A decree made it explicitly illegal for Jesuits and monks to appear in the country, with death penalty as a consequence for offenders.

24th of February 1624. James I's fourth Parliament met: passed act declaring monopolies illegal.

February 1624. Ireland: A proclamation issued on 21 January, ordering all Catholic clergy to leave Ireland within 40 days, was suspended.

19th of February 1624. King Filipe III of Portugal (i.e., Philip IV of Spain) issued a decree prohibiting the enslavement of Chinese people in Portugal or in its colonies.

19th of February 1624. The last parliament of King James I of England began its session (until 29th of May). (Sir Thomas Crewe, Speaker)

16th of February 1624. Kara Mustafa Pasha became the Ottoman Governor of Egypt for the second time.

15th of February 1624. Yi Gwal's Rebellion ended as the rebels murdered Yi Gwal at the town of Mukbang-ri.

12th of February 1624. In England King James I's last Parliament convened, in the course of which monopolies were declared illegal and supplies were voted to support an expeditionary force to help Frederick V recover the Palatine.

11th of February 1624. Yi Gwal installed Prince Heungan, son of the late King Seongjo, on the Korean throne.

7th of February 1624. England first colonized Saint Kitts and Nevis.

2nd of February 1624. The Itza massacred Captain Francisco de Mirones and his men gathered for the Candlemas service in the church of Sacalum (Yucatan); the event cut short the project of conquest of Tayasal (Petén) until 1695 (Other date given is 27 January)

22nd of January 1624. Korean General Yi Gwal led an uprising of 12,000 soldiers against King Injo in what was called then the Joseon Kingdom, and occupied Hanseong.

21st of January 1624: Proclamation ordering all Catholic Church ecclesiastics to leave Ireland within 40 days; suspended after a month.

18th of January 1624. The King's Men acting company performed William Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" at Whitehall Palace.

16th of January 1624. Arrival in Ethiopia of the Portuguese Jesuit Manuel de Almeida where he stayed until August 1633. He drew a map of the country around 1640, this is the first map of this African territory made by a European.

15th of January 1624. Mexico: The people of Mexico hear at Mass that all churches are to be closed, and that their unpopular viceroy, Diego Carrillo de Mendoza y Pimentel, has been excommunicated as a heretic. A riot erupts and the viceregal palace is burnt and looted.

14th of January 1624. After 90 years of Ottoman occupation, Baghdad is recaptured by the Safavid Empire. Safavid Abbas I enters Baghdad, recaptured from the Ottomans.

6th of January 1624. Étienne Ier d'Aligre becomes Keeper of the Seals of France.

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19th of February 1624. The last parliament of King James I of England began its session (until 29th of May). (Sir Thomas Crewe, Speaker)