naval battle between the Sicilians and Venetians ends inconclusively. November 22 – Mustafa I succeeds Ahmed I, as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. December 15 – Sir Thomas Roe, a representative of England's East India Company, arrives in Ahmedabad at India's Mughal Empire, and seeks an audience with the Emperor, Shah Jahan. The Emperor receives Roe in an audience three weeks later, on January 6. December 24 – An unexpected storm strikes off the coast of Finnmark in Norway, sinking 10 ships and drowning at least 40 people. A little more than three years later, Mari Jørgensdatter tells interrogators that she and several other witches caused the storm, prompting the Vardø witch trials. December 30 – Lord Clifton is imprisoned at the Tower of London for threatening Francis Bacon, Lord High Chancellor of England. Clifton is prosecuted by the Star Chamber on March 17 and eventually commits suicide in Fleet Prison. Date unknown At least seven women are sentenced to death by burning for witchcraft, at the Finspång witch trial in Sweden. Giambattista Andreini's play The Penitent Magdalene is published in Mantua. The Book of Swindles, a collection of short stories on fraud in the late Ming dynasty, is published. Births January–March January 6 – Christoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (d. 1673) January 19 – Lucas Faydherbe, Belgian sculptor and architect (d. 1697) January 22 – Lodewijck Neefs, Flemish painter (d. 1649) January 23 – Ralph Josselin, English clergyman (d. 1683) January 30 Isaac de Porthau, Gascon black musketeer of the Maison du Roi (d. 1712) William Sancroft, 79th Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1693) February 5 – Jan Thomas van Ieperen, Flemish engraver, painter (d. 1673) February 22 – Robert Culliford, English politician (d. 1698) March 8 – Tito Livio Burattini, Italian inventor, Egyptologist, instrument-maker (d. 1681) March 17 David Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor and author (d. 1692) Johann Georg Macasius, German physician (d. 1653) April–June April 4 – Sir George Wharton, 1st Baronet, English baronet (d. 1681) April 20 – Sir John Goodricke, 1st Baronet, English landowner and politician (d. 1670) May 3 – Roger Pepys, English lawyer and politician (d. 1688) May 9 – Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege (d. 1655) May 23 – Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian (d. 1692) June 2 – Maeda Toshitsugu, Japanese daimyō of the early Edo period (d. 1674) June 13 – Sir Vincent Corbet, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1656) June 18 – George