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An uprising in Prague sparks the Thirty Years' War, a series of conflicts fought primarily on German soil between Protestant and Catholic factions.
A smallpox epidemic sweeps through New England and spreads down the coast as far as Virginia. Indian tribes are the hardest hit, losing up to 90 percent of their population.
Explorer and adventurer Sir Walter Ralegh, who helped establish the English colony in Virginia, is executed on a charge of treason.
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