Hartford, Connecticut, founded.
Establishment of Harvard College.
John Hampden resists the payment of ship-money; the judges of England declare the impost to be lawful.
1637. Continued severities of the Star chamber in England; Prynne a second time its victim, together with Burton, Bastwick, and Lilburne.
Resistance of the Scots against the introduction of the English liturgy.
War of the New England colonies with the Pequots.
1638. Publication of the National Covenant by the Scots; they declare Episcopacy abolished.
John Harvard, Cambridge, England, bequeaths his library and the half of his fortune to Harvard College, which takes his name.
Alsace occupied by the French.
A settlement made on the island of Aquidneck (Rhode Island) by William Coddington.