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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

23rd of September 1624. Dutch Golden Age painter Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech dies.

Fall 1624. Norway: Three women were executed by decapitation at the Akershus witch trials.

21st of September 1624. The Roman Catholic church's Dicastery for the Clergy issues a decree that no monk may be expelled from his order "unless he be truly incorrigible."

21st of September 1624. Sweden: Södertälje's mayor Z. Anthelius, and two other Swedes are executed because of their Catholic faith.

19th of September 1624. Michael I, the Tsar of Russia, is married at Moscow, making Maria Dolgorukova the Tsaritsa. Maria becomes ill shortly afterward and dies five months after the marriage, on January 17.

13th of September 1624. Ketevan, former queen consort of Kakheti (located around Gremi in what is now the Republic of Georgia), is tortured and killed in the Persian city of Shiraz after refusing to renounce Christianity to convert to Islam.

13th of September 1624. The Style Baronetcy is created in the Baronetage of Ireland in favour of Humphry Style.

12th of September 1624. Cornelis Drebbel demonstrates his third submarine on the River Thames in England.

11th of September 1624. Sweden: The royal secretary Göran Bähr is hung for his apostasy of the protestant religion.

4th of September 1624. The Parlement of Paris registers a decree forbidding the publication of criticism of "anciently approved authors" without prior approval from the Faculty of Theology of the University of Paris, on pain of death.

28th of August 1624. Jasper Vinall becomes the first person to die while playing the sport of cricket, after being struck on the head with a bat during a game at Horsted Keynes in England.

28th of August 1624. The Siege of Breda begins, and will continue for just over 9 months until June 5, 1625.

26th of August 1624. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, requires the legal deposit of new books to the "Hof-Bibliothek'" ("Imperial Library") in Vienna, the modern-day Austrian National Library.

25th of August 1624. After negotiations via Li Dan, head of the illegal traders on Taiwan, Martinus Sonck succumbs under the pressure and withdraws his contingent to Formosa, where he founds Fort Zeelandia near the town Anping.

17th to 20th of August 1624: The great city fire of Oslo in Norway. After being destroyed by a fire, during the reign of King Christian IV, a new city is built closer to Akershus Fortress and named Christiania in honour of the king.

14th of August 1624. The performances of the play "A Game At Chess" are suppressed in view of the play's allusions to the Spanish Match. (The dates of its run are also given as 6–16 August).

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23rd of September 1624. Dutch Golden Age painter Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech dies.

19th of September 1624. Michael I, the Tsar of Russia, is married at Moscow, making Maria Dolgorukova the Tsaritsa. Maria becomes ill shortly afterward and dies five months after the marriage, on January 17.

13th of September 1624. Ketevan, former queen consort of Kakheti (located around Gremi in what is now the Republic of Georgia), is tortured and killed in the Persian city of Shiraz after refusing to renounce Christianity to convert to Islam.

12th of September 1624. Cornelis Drebbel demonstrates his third submarine on the River Thames in England.

14th of August 1624. The performances of the play "A Game At Chess" are suppressed in view of the play's allusions to the Spanish Match. (The dates of its run are also given as 6–16 August).