Events
- April 6 - Tommaso Campanella is released from custody in Rome, and gains the confidence of Pope Urban IV.
- July - Richard James lends Oliver St John a manuscript tract on the bridling of parliaments which was written in 1612 by Sir Robert Dudley, titular duke of Northumberland. St John circulates it among parliamentary supporters, and James is arrested as a result.
- November 22 - The King's Men perform Othello at the Blackfriars Theatre.
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca and his friends break into a convent in an attempt to seize Pedro de Villegas, who had stabbed Calderón's brother.
- Pierre Corneille brings his first play, Mélite to a group of travelling actors.
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