Events
- January 9 - Love's Triumph Through Callipolis, a masque written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is staged at Whitehall Palace.
- February 22 - Chloridia, the year's second Jonson/Jones masque, is performed.
- The young Blaise Pascal moves with his family to Paris.
- Thomas Hobbes is employed as a tutor by the Cavendish family.
- Roger Williams arrives in Boston, Mass.
- The Master of the Revels refuses to license Philip Massinger's new play, Believe as You List, because of its seditious content.
- June 10 - The King's Men perform Pericles, Prince of Tyre at the Globe Theatre.
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