12 events the sources record for this year, grouped by region.
What happened
China (2)
Government troops besieged Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng for about two months at Chexiang Gorge in Xing'an, but accepted their false surrender and let them go. (History of Ming (Mingshi), Annals 明史 卷23 崇禎七年)
They sent Daishan and others, who entered by Desheng Fort, seized Datong, reached the Yellow River in the west, and turned back from Shuozhou. (Draft History of Qing (Qingshigao) 清史稿 卷2 天聰8年六月)
Sub-Saharan Africa (5)
Sultan Hammedi Amina of Masina sets out to the camp of Jaji, leading the army himself (Tarikh al-Sudan (Chronicle of the Sudan) Houdas 1900 불역 장 XXXV (houdas1900_fr_djvu.txt 줄 16958))
All the people of Bina abandon the city, and Yusaro hides nearby (Tarikh al-Sudan (Chronicle of the Sudan) Houdas 1900 불역 장 XXXV (houdas1900_fr_djvu.txt 줄 17193))
Abdallah takes over the post of Jenne-koi from Mohammed Konbaro (Tarikh al-Sudan (Chronicle of the Sudan) Houdas 1900 불역 장 XXXV (houdas1900_fr_djvu.txt 줄 17286))
The author leaves Jenne for Timbuktu over the matter of his younger brother Abdelmoggitz (Tarikh al-Sudan (Chronicle of the Sudan) Houdas 1900 불역 장 XXXV (houdas1900_fr_djvu.txt 줄 17336))
Hocking of Piscataway invaded Plymouth's limits and insisted on trading upriver; after a clash he was killed. This caused tension with the Boston side. (Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation Bradford 1908 Jameson판 OCR l.14501)
A Plymouth bark traded on the Dutch side, met Captain Stone and was drawn into the affair. Later Stone's party was killed by natives (l.14828). (Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation Bradford 1908 Jameson판 OCR l.14770)
In spring the natives around the trading post died miserably of smallpox; the people of Plymouth looked after them. (Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation Bradford 1908 Jameson판 OCR l.14859)
The Pequots fought with a neighbor and fell out with the Narragansett. Since they were also at odds with the Dutch, they sent a friendly embassy to Massachusetts. (Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation Bradford 1908 Jameson판 OCR l.15853)
A priest (editor's note on the person) went with Le Jeune in September of the same year to the new settlement of Trois-Rivières (The Jesuit Relations Thwaites, Jesuit Relations vol. 6 (파일 jesuitrelationsa06jesuuoft.txt, 공백정리본 530941자 지점))