Events
- January 10 – Ben Jonson's The Masque of Beauty is performed by Queen Anne and her retinue at the Banqueting House, Whitehall, a sequel to The Masque of Blackness.
- February 9 – Another masque by Jonson, The Hue and Cry After Cupid, is performed at the Banqueting House, with sets designed by Inigo Jones.
- March 31 – Hamlet is performed aboard the East India Company ship Red Dragon, under the command of Capt. William Keeling.
- June - Thomas Overbury is knighted.
- Henry Ainsworth publishes a response to Richard Bernard's The Separatist Schisme.
- Juan Ruiz de Alarcón returns to Mexico from Spain, to take up an academic post.
- Arthur Johnston goes to Italy to study at Padua.
- The Morgan Bible is given by Cardinal Bernard Maciejowski, Bishop of Cracow, to Abbas I (Shah of Persia).
- Thomas Coryat begins his walking tour of Europe.
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