Events January– March January 12 – James I of England's Banqueting House, Whitehall in London is destroyed by fire. Inigo Jones is commissioned to design a replacement. February 14 – Earthquake flattens the town of Trujillo, Peru, killing hundreds in the town and causing landslides in the surrounding countryside killing hundreds more. March 20 – Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor dies, leaving the Holy Roman Empire without an official leader, to deal with the Bohemian Revolt. April–June April 18 – Battle of Sarhu: Manchu leader Nurhaci is victorious over the Ming forces. May 8 – The Synod of Dort has its final meeting. May 13 – Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague, after having been convicted of treason. May 30 – Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Governor General of the Dutch East Indies, conquers Jayakarta, and renames it Batavia. June 10 – Thirty Years' War – Battle of Sablat: Protestant forces are defeated. June 21 – Dulwich College founded by Edward Alleyn, in Dulwich, London. July–September July 30 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first English-speaking representative assembly in the Americas, the Virginia General Assembly (later named House of Burgesses), convenes for the first time. August 5 – Thirty Years' War: Battle of Věstonice – Bohemian forces defeat the Austrians. August 10 – The Treaty of Angoulême ends the civil war between Louis XIII of France and his mother, Marie de' Medici. August 20 – A group "twenty and odd" enslaved Africans onboard the privateer ship White Lion are landed (the first in the state of Virginia) at Point Comfort in colonial Virginia."The First Africans". Jamestowne Rediscovery. Historic Jamestowne. Retrieved August 18, 2019. August 26 – Frederick V of the Palatinate is elected King of Bohemia by the states of the Bohemian Confederacy. August 28 – Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria and King of Bohemia, is elected Holy Roman Emperor unanimously by the prince-electors. September 5 – In the course of a revolt against the Habsburg Empire, Prince Gabriel Bethlen of Transylvania (now in Romania) conquers Kassa (now Košice in Slovakia) with the help of George I Rákóczi. September 7 – Gaj Singh Rathore becomes the new Raja of Marwar (within the Mughal Empire) at Jodhpur in what is now the Indian state of Rajasthan, succeeding his father, Sur Singh. September 9 – The coronation of Ferdinand II takes place in Vienna. September 18 (7 Thout 1336 on the Coptic