Events
- January 21 - Salmacida Spolia, a masque written by Sir William Davenant and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace — the final royal masque of the Caroline era.
- March 17 (St. Patrick's Day) - Henry Burnell's play Landgartha premieres at the Werburgh Street Theatre in Dublin. It is one of the earliest dramatic works from a native Irish playwright.
- April 16 (approx.) - James Shirley returns to England from Ireland.
- May 4 - Theatre manager William Beeston is sent to the Marshalsea Prison for staging a play (perhaps Richard Brome's The Court Beggar, or his The Queen and Concubine) that offended the Stuart regime. This constituted the sole repression of the theatre to occur during the reign of King Charles I.
- May 28 - Pedro Calderón de la Barca joins the Catalonian campaign led by the Duke of Olivares.
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