estimated 8.1 magnitued earthquake shakes the Taiwan Strait leaving several dead. Date unknown France begins settling Acadia, first successful French North American colony. Before 1 October, Huntingdon Beaumont completes the Wollaton Wagonway, built to transport coal from the mines at Strelley to Wollaton just west of Nottingham, England, the world's oldest wagonway with provenance. The Table Alphabeticall, the first known English dictionary to be organized by alphabetical ordering, is published. First publication of Christopher Marlowe's play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, in London. Lancelot de Casteau's L'Ouverture de cuisine published in Liège, including the first printed recipe for choux pastry. Religion According to legend, the vault of Christian Rosenkreuz is discovered. The Papacy is expected to fall this year by Tobias Hess and Simon Studion according to their correspondence in 1597. Births January–March January 4 – Jakob Balde, German Latinist (d. 1668) February 2 – Juan de Leyva de la Cerda, conde de Baños, Spanish noble (d. 1678) February 24 – Arcangela Tarabotti, born Elena Tarabotti, Venetian nun and feminist (d. 1652) March 10 – Johann Rudolf Glauber, German-Dutch alchemist and chemist (approximate date; d. 1670) March 19 – King John IV of Portugal (d. 1656) March 23 – Girolamo Colonna, Catholic cardinal (d. 1666) April–June April 5 – Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1675) April 9 – Duke Francis Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1658) April 17 Giovanni Giacomo Barbelli, Italian painter (d. 1656) Frans Luycx, Flemish Baroque painter (d. 1668) April 22 – Peter Venables, Welsh politician (d. 1669) April 28 – Joris Jansen Rapelje, Early Dutch settler in colonial North America (d. 1662) May 1 – Louis, Count of Soissons (d. 1641) May 4 – Sir Hugh Owen, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1670) May 10 – Jean Mairet, classical French dramatist who wrote both tragedies and comedies (d. 1686) May 17 – Vincent Baron, French Dominican theologian writer (d. 1674) May 28 – Catherine of Brandenburg, Princess of Transylvania (1629–1630) (d. 1649) June 4 – Claudia de' Medici (d. 1648) June 10 – John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland, English politician when he inherited the peerage (d. 1679) June 17 – John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen (d. 1679) June 28 – Heinrich Albert, German composer and poet (d. 1651) June 30 – Margaret Elisabeth of Leiningen-Westerburg, Regent of Hesse-Homburg (d. 1667) July–September July 8 – Christiaen van Couwenbergh, Dutch painter (d. 1667) July 25 –