1624

January 14 – After 90 years of Ottoman occupation, Baghdad is recaptured by the Safavid Empire. January 22 – Korean General Yi Gwal leads an uprising of 12,000 soldiers against King Injo in what is called then the Joseon Kingdom, and occupies Hanseong. January 24 – Afonso Mendes, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa. February 7 – (January 28, 1623/4 old style) England first colonizes Saint Kitts and Nevis. February 11 – Yi Gwal installs Prince Heungan, son of the late King Seongjo, to the Korean throne. February 15 – Yi Gwal's Rebellion ends as the rebels murder Yi Gwal at the town of Mukbang-ri. February 16 – Kara Mustafa Pasha becomes the Ottoman Governor of Egypt for the second time. February 19 – King Filipe III of Portugal issues a decree prohibiting the enslavement of Chinese people in Portugal or in its colonies. The last parliament of King James I of England begins it session. February 28 – A decree is issued in Norway making it illegal for Jesuits or Roman Catholic monks to be harbored in the country. March 2 – The English House of Commons passes a resolution making it illegal for a Member of Parliament (MP) to quit or willfully give up his seat. Afterward, MPs who wish quit are appointed to an "office of profit", a legal fiction to allow a resignation. March 25 – In a ceremony, Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, renews his oath to restore Catholicism in Germany, Bohemia, Hungary and Croatia. April 13 – Garcia Mvemba a Nkanga is enthroned as King Garcia I of the southern African nation of Kongo (now in Angola), upon the death of his father, King Pedro II. April 15 – The University of Saint Francis Xavier is founded in Bolivia. April 29 – Louis XIII of France appoints Cardinal Richelieu to the Conseil du Roi (Royal Council). May 8 – Capture of Bahia: A Dutch West India Company fleet captures the Brazilian city of Salvador, Bahia from the Portuguese Empire (at this time in the Iberian Union). May 24 The city of Oslo, Norway, is destroyed by fire for the fourteenth time.