Jacob De la Gardie captures the Russian city of Novgorod after a nine-day battle. Novgorod will remain Swedish territory for the next eight years. August 2 – Jamestown's Deputy Governor Sir Thomas Gates returns to Virginia with 280 people, provisions and cattle on six ships and assumes control, ruling that the fort must be strengthened. August 5 – Nasuh Pasha becomes the new grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire after the death of Kuyucu Murad Pasha. September 11 – Greek Orthodox bishop Dionysios Skylosophos leads an army of 700 men in a surprise attack on the city of Yanya (formerly the ancient Greek city of Ioannina) in an attempt to liberate the inhabitants from Ottoman Imperial rule. The Ottoman provincial governor, Osman Pasha, is forced to flee and his home is burned down, but Ottoman troops commanded by Aslan Pasha rout the rebels. Skylosophos is captured on September 14, then tortured to death in public. October–December October 30 – At the age of 16, Gustav II Adolf succeeds his father Charles IX as King of Sweden. November 1 – At Whitehall Palace in London, William Shakespeare's last solo play, The Tempest, is given its earliest reported performance. December 2 (Keichō 16, 10th month, 28th day) – An 8.1 magnitude earthquake strikes off of the coast of Japan and causes a tsunami that kills almost 5,000 people in the northern section of Honshu island. December 5 (30 Ramadan 1020 A.H.) – To celebrate the end of the daily fasting of the month of Ramadan, the Mughal Empire Army commander, Mubariz Khan hosts the celebration banquet and learns that Pashtun rebel leader Khwaja Usman and 250 of his men have evacuated Bokainagar (now Gouripur in Bangladesh) during the Mughal Army's holiday observance. December; The week-long Conquest of Bakla leads to the fall of the Chandradwip Kingdom and the Mughal annexation of Barisal into the Bengal Subah Date unknown An uprising occurs in Moscow, Russia against occupying Polish forces, resulting in a major fire. At Jamestown, John Rolfe imports tobacco seeds from the island of Trinidad (Nicotiana tabacum); the native tobacco is Nicotiana rustica. The Aix-en-Provence possessions takes place in France. Famine in Ethiopia resulting from crop failure due to weather conditions and the outbreak of a plague. Thomas Dale founds the city of Henricus on the James River, with the assistance of 350 men, a few miles south of present day Richmond,