April–June April 19 – First Battle of Guararapes: The Portuguese army defeats the Dutch army, in the north of Brazil. May 12 – Construction of the Kaunghmudaw Pagoda is completed in the Kingdom of Burma on the 6th waning of Kason, 1010, near the end of the reign of King Thalun. Hmannan Yazawin (1829, reprinted by the Myanmar Ministry of Information) Vol. 3, p. 245 May 15 – The Peace of Münster is ratified by both the United Netherlands and the Spanish Empire. May 16 – England's Commonwealth Army massacres 70 Cornish royalists at Penzance, leading to a rebellion against England's Parliamentarians. May 20 – Wladyslaw IV Vasa, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, dies after a reign of 15 years. The throne remains vacant for six months until Wladyslaw's younger half-brother, John II Casimir Vasa, is elected by Poland's Parliament. June 1 – The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War. June 20 – Russian explorer Semyon Dezhnyov departs from Srednekolymsk to begin the first recorded voyage through the Bering Strait, between Asia and North America, and arrives in September.
April–June April 19 – First Battle of Guararapes: The! Portuguese army defeats the Dutch army, in the north of Brazil. :May 12 – Construction of the Kaunghmudaw Pagoda is completed in the Kingdom of Burma on the 6th waning of Kason, 1010, near the end of the reign of King Thalun. Hmannan Yazawin (1829, reprinted by the Myanmar Ministry of Information) Vol. 3, p. 245 May 15 – The Peace of Münster is ratified by both the United Nether.lands and the Spanish Empire. May 16 – England's Commonwealth Army massacres 70 Cornish royalists at Penzance, leading to a rebellion against England's Parliamentarians. May 20 – Wladyslaw IV V?asa, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, dies after a reign of 15 years. The throne remains vacant for six months until Wladyslaw's younger half-brother, John II Casimir Vasa, is elected by Poland's Parliament. June 1 – The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maid?stone in the Second English Civil War. June 20 – Russian explorer Semyon Dezhnyov departs from Srednekolymsk to begin the first recorded voyage through the Bering Strait, between Asia and North America, and arrives in September.