Peru, a colony of Spain encompassing all of Spanish language-speaking South America and what are now the nations of Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, and Uruguay. December 20 – The Uskok War begins after the ports of the Holy Roman Empire on the Adriatic Sea are blockaded by the Republic of Venice, which has hired English and Dutch mercenaries. Date unknown Easter – Persian Safavid hordes, led by Shah Abbas the Great, kill all the monks at the David Gareja monastery complex in Georgia, and set fire to its collection of manuscripts and works of art. Mary Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury, is released from the Tower of London, in recognition of her role in helping to discover the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury. The Somers Isles Company is founded to administer Bermuda. John Browne is created the first King's Gunfounder in England. Austrian merchants receive economic privileges in the Ottoman Empire. The Perse School in Cambridge, England, is founded by Dr Stephen Perse. Wilson's School in Wallington, near London, is founded by Royal Charter. The Grolsch Brewery is founded in Groenlo, Netherlands. Konoike Shinroku opens an office in Osaka, and begins shipping tax-rice from western Japan to Osaka. Johannes Kepler publishes Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo, in response to Galileo's discovery of Jupiter's moons. Manuel Dias, a Portuguese Jesuit missionary, introduces the telescope for the first time in China, in his book Tian Wen Lüe (Explicatio Sphaerae Coelestis). The second volume of Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote ("El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha") is published, and is as successful as the first. Don Quixote eventually becomes the only truly famous work its author ever writes. Births January–March January 6 – Richard Waldron, colonial settler, acting President of the Province of New Hampshire (d. 1689) January 10 – Sir John Robinson, 1st Baronet, of London, English politician (d. 1680) January 13 – Henrik Bjelke, Norwegian military officer (d. 1683) January 14 – John Biddle, English theologian (d. 1662) January 20 – Karmabai, Indian Jat known as Bhakt Shiromani Karmabai (d. 1634) January 25 – Govert Flinck, Dutch painter of the Dutch Golden Age (d. 1660) January 27 – Nicolas Fouquet, French Superintendent of Finances (d. 1680) January 30 – Thomas Rolfe, only child of Pocahontas and her English husband (d. 1675) February 18 – Maria Caterina Farnese, Duchess of Modena and Reggio (d. 1646) February 27 –