the Jülich Succession. November 19 – Hostilities resulting from an attempt by Toyotomi Hideyori to restore Osaka Castle begin. Tokugawa Ieyasu, father of the shōgun, is outraged at this act, and leads three thousand men across the Kizu River, destroying the fort there. December 4 – The Siege of Osaka begins in Japan. Date unknown The French Estates General meets for the last time prior to 1789 (the outbreak of the French Revolution). In the interim, the Kingdom of France will be governed as an absolute monarchy. Scottish mathematician John Napier publishes Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio (Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithms), outlining his discovery of logarithms, and incorporating the decimal mark. Astronomer Johannes Kepler soon begins to employ logarithms, in his description of the Solar System. Tisquantum, a Native American of the Wampanoag Nation, is kidnapped and enslaved by Thomas Hunt, an English sea captain working with Captain John Smith. Freed in Spain, Tisquantum (a.k.a. Squanto) will travel for five years in Europe and North America, before returning to his home in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Twenty months later, he will be able to teach the Pilgrims the basics of farming and trade in the New World. The Fama Fraternitatis is published, the first of three allegorical Rosicrucian manifestoes in the Holy Roman Empire Christianity is banned throughout Japan. The Duchess of Malfi is performed at the Globe theatre Births January–March January 1 Henry Frederick, Hereditary Prince of the Palatinate (d. 1629) Luis Guillermo de Moncada, 7th Duke of Montalto, Spanish Catholic cardinal (d. 1672) January 5 – Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (d. 1662) January 10 – Kanō Yasunobu, Japanese painter of the Kanō school of painting, during the Edo period (d. 1685) January 20 – Samuel Gott, English politician (d. 1671) February 2 – Robert Ellison, English politician (d. 1678) February 8 – Thomas Wendy, English politician (d. 1673) February 14 – John Wilkins, English bishop, academic and natural philosopher (d. 1672) February 16 – Christopher Merret, English physician and scientist (d. 1695) March 3 – Sir Peter Leycester, 1st Baronet, British historian (d. 1678) March 8 – Hendrik van der Borcht II, German painter (d. 1676) March 15 – Franciscus Sylvius, Dutch physician and scientist (d. 1672) March 25 Thomas Chicheley, English politician who fell from favour, during the reign of James II (d. 1699) Juan Carreño de Miranda, Spanish artist (d.