concluding the Smolensk War. July–September July 4 – The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France, in what is now the Canadian province of Quebec. August 18 – In France, Urbain Grandier, accused of wizardry, is burned alive in Loudun. August (prob.) – Jean Nicolet becomes the first European to set foot in what is now the U.S. state of Wisconsin. He is in search of a water-route to the Pacific, when he lands at Green Bay of Lake Michigan. September 6– The Battle of Nördlingen ends after two days with a decisive victory for the Army of the Holy Roman Empire and Habsburg Spain. September 12 – A gunpowder factory explodes in Valletta, Malta, killing 22 people and damaging several buildings. October–December October 11– The Burchardi flood (also known as the second Grote Mandrenke) strikes the North Sea coast of Germany and Denmark, causing at least 8,000 deaths and perhaps as many as 12,000. November 11 – The Irish House of Commons passes an Act for the Punishment of the Vice of Buggery. December 8 – Francesco Niccolini obtains an audience with Pope Urban VIII and pleads him to reconsider the Church's punishment of astronomer Galileo Galilei. The Pope replies that although he esteems Galileo highly, nothing will change. December 16 – Gregorio Panzani, an emissary of Pope Urban VIII, is welcomed in England by King Charles I, marking the first time since England's break with the Roman Catholic Church that a monarch has received an agent of the Vatican. Date unknown Curaçao is captured by the Dutch. The English establish a settlement at Cochin (modern-day Kochi) on the Malabar Coast. Suspecting that Patriarch Afonso Mendes played a part in the Portuguese assault on Mombasa, Emperor Fasilides expels him and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia. The Académie Française is formed by Cardinal Richelieu (it will be formally established in 1635). The first performance of the Oberammergau Passion Play is held in Bavaria. Moses Amyraut's Traité de la predestination is published. The Paulaner Brewery is established in Munich, by Minim friars. Births January–March January 1 – Fleetwood Sheppard, English poet (d. 1698) January 7 Sophia Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt, Landgravine consort of Hesse-Homburg (d. 1663) Adam Krieger, German composer (d. 1666) Katarzyna Sobieska, Polish noble (d. 1694) January 16 – Dorothe Engelbretsdotter, Norway's first professional female author (d. 1716) January 25 – Gaspar Fagel, Dutch statesman (d. 1688) January 30