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Events and People Who Made History in the Year 1644 AD
January
January 18: 1st UFO sighting in America, by perplexed pilgrims in Boston
January 18: Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's 1st UFO sighting
January 24: Battle at Nantwich Cheshire: Parliamentary armies win
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February
February 5: 1st U.S. livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut
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March
March 7: Massachusetts establishes 1st 2-chamber legislature in colonies
March 14: England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island)
March 19: 200 members of Peking imperial family/court commit suicide
March 31: Pope Urbanus VIII and duke of Parma signs Peace of Ferrara
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April
April 29: Farm leader Li Zicheng becomes emperor of China and flees Peking
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May
May 6: Johan Mauritius resigns as governor of Brazil
May 23: Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists
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June
June 11: Florentine scientist describe invention of barometer
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July
July 2: Battle of Marston Moor: Parliamentary forces defeat royalists
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September
September 2: Battle at Lostwithiel: Robert Devereux' infantry surrenders
September 5: Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Sas of Gent
September 15: Giambattista Pamfili replaces Pope Urban VII as Innocent X
September 17: French troops occupy Mainz
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October
October 23: Sea battle of Fehmarn Sont: Admiral Thijssen beats Denen
October 27: 2nd Battle at Newbury: King Charles I beats parliamentary armies
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November
November 19: 1st protestant ministry society in New England
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December
December 4: 1st European peace congress opens in Munster
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