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Undated - Opening of the Globe Theatre.
June 4 - Middleton's Microcynicon and Marston's Scourge of Villainy are publicly burned, as ecclesiastical authorities crack down on the craze for satire of the past year. The Bishop of London and the Archbishop of Canterbury tighten their enforcement of the existing censorship regime. Earlier, minor works like pamphlets and plays were being published only with the approval of the Wardens of the Stationers Company, and without ecclesiastical review; this arrangement is terminated. The War of the Theatres breaks out as a result of the "bishops' ban".
June 7 - John Day kills fellow playwright Henry Porter, allegedly in self-defence.
September 21 - First recorded performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar at the Globe Theatre in London, reported by Swiss traveller Thomas Platter.

May 30 - Samuel Bochart, Biblical scholar
July 23 - Stephanius, Danish royal historiographer
August 14 - Méric Casaubon, English classicist (died 1671)
October 31 - Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (died 1680)
date unknown - Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé, maxim writer