1610s

The 1610s decade ran from January 1, 1610, to December 31, 1619.

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1610
August 2: Henry Hudson sails into Hudson Bay.


January–June
  • January 6 – Nossa Senhora da Graça incident: A Portuguese carrack sinks near Nagasaki, after fighting Japanese samurai for four nights.
  • January 7 – Galileo Galilei first observes the four Galilean moons of Jupiter: Ganymede, Callisto, Europa and Io, but is unable to distinguish the latter two until the following day.
  • February 24 – English courtier Thomas Roe sets out on an expedition to The Guianas and Amazon River.
  • May 14 – François Ravaillac assassinates Henry IV of France who is succeeded by his 8-year-old son Louis XIII.
  • May 23 – Jamestown, Virginia: Acting as temporary Governor, Thomas Gates, along with John Rolfe, Captain Ralph Hamor, Sir George Somers, and other survivors from the Sea Venture (wrecked at Bermuda) arrive at Jamestown; they find that 60 have survived the "starving time" (winter), the fort palisades and gates have been torn down, and empty houses have been used for firewood, in fear of attacks by natives outside the fort area.
  • May 24 – Jamestown, Virginia: The temporary Governor, Thomas Gates, issues The Divine, Moral, and Martial Laws.
  • May 27 – Regicide François Ravaillac is executed by being pulled apart by horses in the Place de Grève, Paris.
  • June 5 – The masque Tethys' Festival is performed at Whitehall Palace to celebrate the investiture of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales.[1]
  • June 7 – Jamestown: Temporary Governor Gates decides to abandon Jamestown.
  • June 8 – Jamestown: Temporary Governor Gates' convoy meets the ships of Governor Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (Delaware) at Mulberry Island.
  • June 10 – Jamestown: The convoy of temporary Governor Gates, and the ships of Governor Lord De La Warr, land at Jamestown.

July–December

Date unknown
  • The Manchu tribal leader Nurhaci breaks his relations with the Ming dynasty of China, at this time under the aloof and growingly negligent Wanli Emperor; Nurhaci's line later becomes the emperors of the Qing dynasty, which overthrows the short-lived Shun dynasty in 1644, and the remnants of the Ming throne in 1662.
  • The Orion Nebula is discovered by Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc.
  • Publication is completed of the Douay–Rheims Bible (The Holie Bible Faithfully Translated into English), a translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English made by members of the English College, Douai, in the service of the Catholic Church.[6]
  • Jakob Böhme experiences another inner vision, in which he believes that he further understands the unity of the cosmos, and that he has received a special vocation from God.
  • Work starts on the Wignacourt Aqueduct, in Malta.
  • Santa Fe, New Mexico, capital of New Mexico, is founded as capital of Kingdom of Nuevo México.[7]
  • Henri Membertou, Grand Chief of Mi'kmaq nation signs Concordat of 1610, an agreement with the Roman Catholic Church recognizing the Mi'kmaq as an independent nation.

1611
May: King James Version of the Bible.

January–June

July–December

Date unknown
  • An uprising occurs in Moscow, Russia against occupying Polish forces, resulting in a major fire.
  • Jamestown: John Rolfe imports tobacco seeds from the island of Trinidad (Nicotiana tabacum); the native tobacco is Nicotiana rustica.
  • The Aix-en-Provence possessions takes place in France.
  • Famine in Ethiopia resulting from crop failure due to weather conditions and the outbreak of a plague.
  • Thomas Dale founds the city of Henricus on the James River, a few miles south of present day Richmond, Virginia.
  • Construction begins on Naqsh-e Jahan Square in Isfahan, Persia.
  • Thomas Sutton founds Charterhouse School, on the site of the old Carthusian monastery in Charterhouse Square, Smithfield, London.
  • Itoh Gofuku Shop, a predecessor of Matsuzakaya, a famous department store, founded in Nagoya, Japan.

1612

January–June

July–December
  • July 22 – Four women and one man are hanged, following the Northamptonshire witch trials in Northampton, England.
  • August 20 – Ten Pendle witches are hanged, having been found guilty of practising witchcraft in Lancashire, England.
  • August 26 – Battle of Kringen: A Scottish mercenary force is destroyed in Norway.
  • November 29 – Battle of Swally, in which the English fleet beat the Portuguese
  • November 29 – The Treaty of Nasuh Pasha is signed, between the Ottoman Empire and the Safavid Empire.
  • November 30 – Battle of Swally: Forces of the English East India Company and Portugal engage off the coast of India, resulting in an English victory.[13]
  • December 15 – Simon Marius is the first to observe the Andromeda Galaxy through a telescope.
  • December 28 – Galileo Galilei becomes the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune when in conjunction with Jupiter, yet he mistakenly catalogues it as a fixed star, because of its extremely slow motion along the ecliptic. Neptune is not truly discovered as a planet until 1846, about 234 years later when Johann Gottfried Galle first sights it in the Berlin Observatory.

Date unknown
  • Jamestown: John Rolfe exports the first crop of improved tobacco (seeds from Trinidad).
  • The Nagoya Castle is completed in Japan.
  • The Okamoto Daihachi incident in Japan.
  • Thomas Shelton's English translation of the first half of Don Quixote is published. It is the first translation of the Spanish novel into any language.

1613

January–June

July–December

Date unknown
  • The Ottoman Empire invades Hungary.
  • A locust swarm destroys La Camarque, France.
  • The territory of Kuwait is founded.
  • Sultan Agung of Mataram takes the throne of the kingdom of Mataram on Java.
  • Near Jamestown, Virginia, Sir Thomas Dale starts a settlement called Bermuda City, which later becomes part of Hopewell, Virginia.

1614
December 4: Start of the Siege of Osaka

January–June

July–December

Date unknown
  • The French Estates General meets for the last time prior to 1789 (the outbreak of the French Revolution). In the interim, the Kingdom of France will be governed as an absolute monarchy.
  • Scottish mathematician John Napier publishes Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio (Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithms), outlining his discovery of logarithms, and incorporating the decimal mark. Astronomer Johannes Kepler soon begins to employ logarithms, in his description of the Solar System.
  • Tisquantum,[22] a Native American of the Wampanoag Nation, is kidnapped and enslaved by Thomas Hunt, an English sea captain working with Captain John Smith. Freed in Spain, Tisquantum (a.k.a. Squanto) will travel for five years in Europe and North America, before returning to his home in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Twenty months later, he will be able to teach the Pilgrims[23] the basics of farming and trade in the New World.
  • The Fama Fraternitatis is published, the first of three allegorical Rosicrucian manifestoes in the Holy Roman Empire
  • Christianity is banned throughout Japan.
  • The Duchess of Malfi is performed at the Globe theatre

1615

January–June

July–December

Date unknown
  • Easter – Persian Safavid hordes, led by Shah Abbas the Great, kill all the monks at the David Gareja monastery complex in Georgia, and set fire to its collection of manuscripts and works of art.
  • Mary Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury, is released from the Tower of London, in recognition of her role in helping to discover the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury.
  • The Somers Isles Company is founded to administer Bermuda.
  • John Browne is created the first King's Gunfounder in England.
  • Austrian merchants receive economic privileges in the Ottoman Empire.
  • The Perse School in Cambridge, England, is founded by Dr Stephen Perse.
  • Wilson's School in Wallington, near London, is founded by Royal Charter.
  • The Grolsch Brewery is founded in Groenlo, Netherlands.
  • Konoike Shinroku opens an office in Osaka, and begins shipping tax-rice from western Japan to Osaka.
  • Johannes Kepler publishes Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo, in response to Galileo's discovery of Jupiter's moons.[28]
  • Manuel Dias, a Portuguese Jesuit missionary, introduces the telescope for the first time in China, in his book Tian Wen Lüe (Explicatio Sphaerae Coelestis).
  • The second volume of Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote ("El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha") is published, and is as successful as the first. Don Quixote eventually becomes the only truly famous work its author ever writes.

1616


January–June
  • January
  • January 1 – King James I of England attends the masque The Golden Age Restored, a satire by Ben Jonson on fallen court favorite the Earl of Somerset. The king asks for a repeat performance on January 6.[29]
  • January 3 – In the court of James I of England, the king's favorite George Villiers becomes Master of the Horse (encouraging development of the thoroughbred horse); on April 24 he receives the Order of the Garter; and on August 27 is created Viscount Villiers and Baron Waddon, receiving a grant of land valued at £80,000. In 1617, he will be made Earl of Buckingham. After the Earl of Pembroke, he is the second richest nobleman in England.
  • January 10 – English diplomat Sir Thomas Roe presents his credentials to the Mughal Emperor Jahangir, in Ajmer Fort, opening the door to the British presence in India.[30][31] Roe sailed in the Lyon under the command of captain Christopher Newport, best known for his role in the Virginia colonies.
  • January 12 – The city of Belém, Brazil is founded on the Amazon River delta, by Portuguese captain Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco, who had previously taken the city of São Luís in Maranhão from the French.
  • January 15 – After overwintering with the Huron Indians, Samuel de Champlain and Recollect Father Joseph Le Caron visit the Petun and Ottawa Indians of the Great Lakes. This is Champlain's last trip in North America before returning to France. Having secured Canada, he helps create French America, New France, or L'Acadie.
  • January 29 – Dutch captain Willem Schouten, in the Eendracht, rounds the southern tip of South America, and names it Kaap Hoorn, after his birthplace in Holland.
  • February – English merchants of the East India Company complain that the great troubles and wars in Japan since their arrival have put them to much pains and charges. Two great cities, Osaka and Sakaii, have been burned to the ground, each one almost as big as London, and not one house left standing, and it is reported above 300,000 men have lost their lives, “yet the old Emperor Ogusho Same hath prevailed and Fidaia Same either been slain or fled secretly away, that no news is to be heard of him.” Jesuits, priests, and friars are banished by the emperor and their churches and monasteries pulled down; they put the fault on the arrival of the English; it is said if Fidaia Same had prevailed against the emperor, he promised them entrance again, when without doubt all the English would have been driven out of Japan.[32]
  • February 1 – James I of England grants Ben Jonson an annual pension of 100 marks, making him de facto poet laureate.[33]
  • February 19 – First recorded eruption of Mayon Volcano, the Philippines' most active volcano.[34]
  • February 24 – A commission of Roman Catholic theologians, the "Qualifiers," reports that the idea that the Sun is stationary is "foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it explicitly contradicts in many places the sense of Holy Scripture...".
  • February 28 – In the aftermath of the 1613–1614 anti-Jewish pogrom called the Fettmilch Uprising in Frankfurt, Germany, mob leader Vincenz Fettmilch is beheaded, but the Jews, who had been expelled from the city on August 23, 1614, following the plundering of the Judengasse, can only return as a result of direct intervention by Holy Roman Emperor Matthias. After long negotiations, the Jews are left without any compensation for their plundered belongings.
  • March – Action of 1616, La Goulette, Tunisia: A Spanish squadron under Francisco de Ribera defeats a Tunisian fleet.
  • March 5 – Nicolaus Copernicus' De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543) is placed on the Index of Forbidden Books, by the Congregation of the Index of the Roman Catholic Church "until corrected".
  • March 11
  • March 19
    • Sir Walter Ralegh, English explorer of the New World, is released from prison in the Tower of London, where he has been imprisoned for treason, in order to conduct a second (ill-fated) expedition, in search of El Dorado in South America.[35]
    • The Scornful Lady, a comedy stage play written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, is published.
  • March 26 – August 30 – English explorer William Baffin, as pilot to Robert Bylot on the Discovery, makes a detailed exploration of Baffin Bay, whilst searching for the Northwest Passage.[36] The expedition also discovers Smith Sound, Lancaster Sound and Devon Island, and reaches latitude 77° 45' North, a record which holds for 236 years.
  • March 31 - Emperor Jahangir of India (reign 1605-1627) conferred the title of Nur Jahan on his wife <Tuzuk i Jahangiri, The Memoirs of Jahangir>
  • April 25 – Sir John Coke, in the Court of King's Bench (England), holds the King's actions in a case of In commendam to be illegal.
  • May 25 – King James I of England's former favourite, the Earl of Somerset, and his wife Frances, are convicted of the murder of Thomas Overbury in 1613. They are spared death, and are sentenced to imprisonment in the Tower of London (until 1622).[37] Although the King has ordered the investigation of the poet's murder and allowed his former court favorite to be arrested and tried, his court, now under the influence of George Villiers, gains the reputation of being corrupt and vile. The sale of peerages (beginning in July)[38] and the royal visit of James's brother-in-law, Christian IV of Denmark, a notorious drunkard, add further scandal.
  • May 3 – The Treaty of Loudun is signed, ending a series of rebellions in France.[39]
  • June 12 – Pocahontas (now Rebecca) arrives in England, with her husband, John Rolfe,[40] their one-year-old son, Thomas Rolfe, her half-sister Matachanna (alias Cleopatra) and brother-in-law Tomocomo, the shaman also known as Uttamatomakkin (having set out in May). Ten Powhatan Indians are brought by Sir Thomas Dale, the colonial governor, at the request of the Virginia Company, as a fund-raising device. Dale, having been recalled under criticism, writes A True Relation of the State of Virginia, Left by Sir Thomas Dale, Knight, in May last, 1616, in a successful effort to redeem his leadership. Neither Pocahontas or Dale see Virginia again.

July–December
  • July 6 – First recorded eruption of Manam Volcano (erupting frequently since), forming a 10-km-wide island in the Bismarck Sea, 13 km (8.1 mi) off coast of Papua New Guinea, in the southwestern part of the Pacific Ring of Fire.[34]
  • July 20 – The death of Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, in exile in Rome, ends the Flight of the Earls from Ireland.[41]
  • August 8 – The Tokugawa shogunate (Bakufu) in Japan forbids foreigners other than Chinese from traveling freely, or trading outside of the ports of Nagasaki and Hirado.[42]
  • September – Sakazaki Naomori of Iwami Tsuwano han fails to kidnap Princess Sen, and commits suicide.
  • September 15 – The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy.
  • October
    • John Donne is appointed as Reader in Divinity, at his old inn of court in London, Lincoln's Inn.
    • King James's School at Knaresborough in Yorkshire is founded by Dr. Robert Chaloner, and the charter is signed by King James I of England.[43]
  • October/November – Ben Jonson's satirical five-act comedy, The Devil is an Ass, is produced at the Blackfriars Theatre in London by the King's Men, poking fun at contemporary credence in witchcraft and Middlesex juries.[44]
  • October 25 – Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at Dirk Hartog Island, off the Western Australian coast. The pewter Hartog Plate, left to mark the landfall of the Dutch ship Eendracht, is now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
  • November
    • Peter Paul Rubens begins work on classical tapestries, when a contract is signed in Antwerp with cloth dyers Jan Raes and Frans Sweerts in Brussels, and the Genoese merchant Franco Cattaneo.
    • René Descartes, at age 20, graduates in civil and canon law at the University of Poitiers, where he becomes disillusioned with books, preferring to seek truths from "le grand livre du monde." His thesis defense may have been written in December.
    • With small profits to show, the Virginia Company decides to distribute land in Virginia to shareholders according to the number of shares owned. Each stockholder can set up a "particular" plantation and pay associated expenses, receiving 100 acres (0.40 km2) of land for each share and 50 acres (200,000 m2) for each person transported (the "headrights" system).
    • Author Robert Burton is made vicar of St. Thomas in the west suburbs of London.[45][46]
  • November 4 – Prince Charles (15-year-old surviving son of James I of England and Anne of Denmark) is invested as Prince of Wales at Whitehall in London, the last such investiture until 1911.
  • November 5 – Bishop Lancelot Andrewes preaches the annual Gunpowder Treason sermon before King James I of England at Whitehall (both were intended victims).
  • November 6 – 25 – Ben Jonson's works are published in a collected folio edition (the first of any English playwright).[38][47]
  • November 6 – Captain William Murray is granted a royal patent, giving him the sole privilege of importing tobacco to Scotland for a period of 21 years. Continuing from the reign of Elizabeth I of England, the creation of grants and patents reaches a new highwater mark from 1614 to 1621, during the reign of James I of England.
  • November 13 – Italian artist Guido Reni's famous Pietà, commissioned by the Senate of Bologna, is placed on the greater altar of the church of Santa Maria della Pietà.
  • November 14 – In England, Sir Edward Coke is dismissed as Chief Justice of the King's Bench by royal prerogative.
  • November 16 – Marco Antonio de Dominis, Roman Catholic Archbishop of the See of Spalato and Primate of Dalmatia, having run afoul of Pope Paul V over secular matters relating to Venice, submits to King James I of England and later becomes Dean of Windsor.
  • November 30 – Cardinal Richelieu, Armand-Jean du Plessis, is named French Secretary of State by young king Louis XIII. Richelieu will change France into a unified centralised state, able to resist both England and the Habsburg Empire.
  • December – In the Middle East, traveller Pietro Della Valle marries Jowaya, daughter of a Nestorian Christian father and an Armenian mother, in Baghdad. The couple then sets off (1617) to find the Shah in Isfahan.
  • December 10 – An ordinance establishes parish schools in Scotland. The same act of the Privy Council commends the abolition of Gaelic.
  • December 18 – A widely reported earthquake occurs in Leipzig, Germany (also dated December 22).[48]
  • December 22 – An Indian youth (called one of "the first fruits of India") is baptized with the name "Peter" in London at the St. Dionis Backchurch, in a ceremony attended by the Lord Mayor, the Privy Council, city aldermen, and officials of the Honourable East India Company. Peter thus becomes the first convert to the Anglican Church in India. He returns to India as a missionary, schooled in English and Latin.[49]
  • December 25
    • "Father Christmas" is a main character of Christmas, His Masque, written by Ben Jonson and presented at the court of King James I of England. Father Christmas is considered a papist symbol by Puritans, and later banished from England until the English Restoration. The traditional, comical costume for this jolly figure, as well as regional names, indicate that he is descended from the presenter of the medieval Feast of Fools.
    • Captain Nathaniel Courthope reaches the nutmeg-rich island of Run in the Moluccas, to defend it against the Dutch East India Company. A contract with the inhabitants, accepting James I of England as their sovereign, makes it part of the English colonial empire.[50][51]

Date unknown
  • Abbas I's Kakhetian and Kartlian campaigns occur as progressive combats. Abbas I of Persia captures Tbilisi following a conflict with the Georgian soldiers and the general populace. After the capture of Tbilisi, Abbas I confronts an Ottoman army. The battle takes place near Lake Gökçe, and results in a Safavid victory.
  • Nurhaci declares himself khan (emperor) of China, and founds the Later Jin Dynasty.
  • Manchurian leader Qing Tai Zu crowns himself king.
  • The Tepehuán Revolt in Nueva Vizcaya tests the limits of Spanish and Jesuit colonialism, in western and northwestern Durango and southern Chihuahua, Mexico.
  • Oorsprong en voortgang der Nederlandtscher beroerten (Origin and progress of the disturbances in the Netherlands), by Johannes Gysius, is published.[52]
  • The Collegium Musicum is founded in Prague.
  • Physician Aleixo de Abreu is granted a pension of 16,000 reis, for services to the crown in Angola and Brazil, by Philip III of Spain, who also appoints him physician of his chamber.
  • Ngawang Namgyal arrives in Bhutan, having escaped Tibet.
  • The Swiss Guard is appointed part of the household guard of King Louis XIII of France.
  • Week-long festivities in honor of the Prince of Urbano, of the Barberini family, occur in Florence, Italy.[53]
  • Richard Steel and John Crowther complete their journey from Ajmeer in the Mughal Empire to Ispahan in Persia.
  • Captain John Smith publishes his book A description of New England in London. Smith relates one voyage to the coast of Massachusetts and Maine, in 1614, and an attempted voyage in 1615, when he was captured by French pirates and detained for several months before escaping.
  • The New England Indian smallpox or leptospirosis epidemic of 1616–19 begins to depopulate the region, killing an estimated 90% of the coastal native peoples.[54][55]
  • A slave ship carries smallpox from the Kingdom of Kongo to Salvador, Brazil.[56]
  • In England, louse-borne epidemic typhus ravages the poor and crowded.
  • A fatal disease of cattle, probably rinderpest, spreads through the Italian provinces of Padua, Udine, Treviso and Vicenza, introduced most likely from Dalmatia or Hungary. Great numbers of cattle die in Italy, as they had in previous years (1559, 1562, 1566, 1590, 1598) in other European regions when harvest failure also drives people to the brink of starvation (for example, 1595–97 in Germany). The consumption of beef and veal is prohibited, and Pope Paul V issues an edict prohibiting the slaughter of draught oxen that are suitable for plowing. Calves are also not slaughtered for some time afterwards, so that Italy's cattle herds can be replenished.[57]
  • At the behest of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Dr. Richard Vines, a physician, passes the winter of 1616–17 at Biddeford, Maine, at the mouth of the Saco River, that he calls Winter Harbor. This is the site of the earliest permanent settlement in Maine, of which there is a conclusive record. Maine will become an important refuge for religious dissenters persecuted by the Puritans.[58]
  • In Spanish Florida, the Cofa Mission at the mouth of the Suwannee River disappears.
  • The first African slaves are brought to Bermuda, an English colony, by Captain George Bargrave to dive for pearls, because of their reputed skill in this activity. Harvesting pearls off the coast proves unsuccessful, and the slaves are put to work planting and harvesting the initial large crops of tobacco and sugarcane.[59] At the same time, some English refuse to purchase Brazilian sugar because it is produced by slave labour.[60]
  • Italian natural philosopher Giulio Cesare Vanini publishes a radically heterodox book in France, after his English interlude De admirandis naturae reginae deaeque mortalium arcanis, for which he is condemned and forced to flee Paris. For his opinion that the world is eternal and governed by immanent laws, as expressed in this book, he is executed in 1619.
  • Francesco Albani paints the ceiling frescoes of Apollo and the Seasons, at the Palazzo Verospi in Via del Corso, for Cardinal Fabrizio Verospi.
  • Elizabethan polymath and alchemist Robert Fludd publishes Apologia Compendiaria, Fraternitatem de Rosea Cruce suspicionis … maculis aspersam, veritatis quasi Fluctibus abluens at Leiden, countering the arguments of Andreas Libavius. Later theories propose that he was linked with Rosicrucians and the Family of Love.
  • Johannes Valentinus Andreae claims to be the author of Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz Anno 1459 published in Strasbourg.
  • Witch trials:
    • John Cotta writes his influential book The Triall of Witch-craft.
    • Elizabeth Rutter is hanged as a witch in Middlesex, England, Agnes Berrye in Enfield, and nine women in Leicester on the testimony of a raving 13-year-old named John Smith, under the Witchcraft Act 1604.[61] In Orkney, Elspeth Reoch is tried. In France Leger (first name unknown) is condemned for witchcraft on May 6, Sylvanie de la Plaine is burned at Pays de Labourde as a witch, and in Orléans eighteen witches are killed.
    • A second witch-hunt breaks out in Biscay, Spain. An Edict of Silence is issued by the Inquisition, but the king overturns the Edict, and 300 accused witches are burned alive.
  • Latest probable date of Thomas Middleton composition of The Witch, a tragicomedy that may have entered into the present-day text of Shakespeare's Macbeth.[62]
  • "Drink to me only with thine eyes" comes from Ben Jonson's love poem, To Celia. Jonson's poetic lamentation On my first Sonne is also from this year.
  • Francis de Sales' literary masterpiece Treatise on the Love of God is published, while he is Bishop of Geneva.
  • Orlando Gibbons' anthem See, the Word is Incarnate is written.
  • Italian naturalist Fabio Colonna states that "tongue stones" (glossopetrae) are shark teeth, in his treatise De glossopetris dissertatio.
  • An important English dictionary is published by Dr. John Bullokar with the title An English Expositor: teaching the interpretation of the hardest words used in our language, with sundry explications, descriptions and discourses.
  • English mathematician Henry Briggs goes to Edinburgh, to show John Napier his efficient method of finding logarithms, by the continued extraction of square roots.
  • Moralist writer John Deacon publishes a quarto entitled Tobacco Tortured in the Filthy Fumes of Tobacco Refined (supporting the views of James I of England). Deacon writes the same year that syphilis is a "Turkished", "Spanished", or "Frenchized" disease that the English contract by "trafficking with the contagious courruptions."
  • Fortunio Liceti publishes De Monstruorum Natura in Italy, which marks the beginning of studies into malformations of the embryo.
  • Dutch traders smuggle the coffee plant out of Mocha, a port in Yemen on the Red Sea, and cultivate it at the Amsterdam Botanical Gardens. The Dutch later introduce it to Java.
  • Muhammad Baqir Majlisi, known as Allameh Majlesi, is born in the city of Isfahan.
  • Fort San Diego, in Acapulco Bay, Mexico, is completed by the Spanish as a defence against their erstwhile vassals, the Dutch.[63]
  • Anti-Christian persecutions break out in Nanking, China, and Nagasaki, Japan. The Jesuit-lead Christian community in Japan at this time is over 3,000,000 strong.
  • Master seafarer Henry Mainwaring, Oxford graduate and lawyer turned successful Newfoundland pirate, returns to England, is pardoned after rescuing a Newfoundland trading fleet near Gibraltar, and begins to write a revealing treatise on piracy.
  • The first Thai embassy to Japan arrives.
  • William Harvey gives his views on the circulation of blood, as Lumleian Lecturer at the Royal College of Physicians. It is not until 1628 that he gives his views in print.
  • The Dutch establish their colony of Essequibo, in the region of the Essequibo River, in northern South America (present-day Guyana), for sugar and tobacco production. The colony is protected by Fort Kyk-Over-Al, now in ruins. The Dutch also map the Delaware River in North America.
  • The Ottoman Empire attempts landings at the shoreline between Cádiz and Lisbon.
  • Croatian mathematician Faustus Verantius publishes his book Machinae novae, a book of mechanical and technological inventions, some of which are applicable to the solutions of hydrological problems, and others concern the construction of clepsydras, sundials, mills, presses bridges and boats for widely different uses.
  • John Speed publishes an edition of his Atlas of Britain, with descriptive text in Latin.
  • Pierre Vernier is employed, with his father, in making fine-scale maps of France (Franche-Comté area).
  • Danish natural philosopher Ole Worm collects materials that will later be incorporated into his museum in Copenhagen. His museum is the nucleus of the University of Copenhagen Zoological Museum.
  • Isaac Beeckman, Dutch intellectual and future friend of René Descartes, leaves his candle factory in Zierikzee, to return to Middelburg to study medicine.[64]
  • In Sardinia, the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Sassari is founded.
  • Gian Lorenzo Bernini sculpts Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children, at the age of 18 years. This work is now in New York, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • The States of Holland set up a commission to advise them on the problem of Jewish residency and worship. One of the members of the commission is Hugo Grotius, a highly regarded jurist and one of the most important political thinkers of his day.
  • Marie Venier (called Laporte) is the first female actress to appear on the stage in Paris.[65]
  • Jesuit astronomer Christoph Scheiner becomes the advisor to Archduke Maximilian, brother of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor in Vienna. A lifelong enemy of Galileo, following a dispute over the nature of sunspots, Scheiner is credited with reopening the 1616 accusations against Galileo in 1633.
  • Tommaso Campanella's book In Defence of Galileo is written.
  • Istanbul's Sultan Ahmed Mosque (also known as the Blue Mosque) is completed during the rule of Ahmed I.
  • In Tunis, the mosque of Youssef Deyis is built. Today it has an octagonal minaret crowned with a miniature green-tiled pyramid for a roof.
  • Inigo Jones designs the Queen's House at Greenwich, near London.[36]
  • Ambrose Barlow, recently graduated from the College of Saint Gregory, Douai, France, and the Royal College of Saint Alban in Valladolid, Spain, enters the Order of Saint Benedict. In 1641 he will be martyred in England.
  • John Vaughan, 1st Earl of Carbery is appointed to the post of comptroller, in the newly formed household of Prince Charles in England; Vaughan later claims that serving the Prince has cost him £20,000.

1617

January–June

July–December

Date unknown
  • At least seven women are sentenced to death by burning for witchcraft, at the Finspång witch trial in Sweden.
  • Giambattista Andreini's play The Penitent Magdalene is published in Mantua.
  • The Book of Swindles, a collection of short stories on fraud in the late Ming dynasty, is published.

1618

January–June

July–December

Date unknown

1619

January–June

July–December
  • July 30 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first English-speaking representative assembly in the Americas, the Virginia General Assembly (later named House of Burgesses), convenes for the first time.[81]

Date unknown
  • Jahangir grants a British mission important commercial concessions at Surat, on the west coast of India.
  • Salé Rovers declare the port of Salé on the Barbary Coast to be the Republic of Salé, independent of the Sultan of Morocco, with the Dutch-born corsair Jan Janszoon as president.
  • The Danish–Dutch whaling settlement of Smeerenburg is founded in Svalbard.
  • An expedition in Sri Lanka, led by Filipe de Oliveira, deposes and executes the last Jaffna king (Cankili II), putting an end to the Jaffna Kingdom.
  • A Spanish expedition sails around Tierra del Fuego, mapping the coast and discovering the Diego Ramírez Islands.

Births

1610

Pope Alexander VIII
Hendrik Martenszoon Sorgh
Gabriel Lalemant
Jacob Kettler
Adriaen van Ostade
  • January 9 – George Wilde, Irish bishop (d. 1665)
  • January 10 – Louis Maimbourg, French Jesuit historian (d. 1686)
  • January 12 – Reinhold Curicke, jurist and historian from Danzig (d. 1667)
  • January 13 – Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1665)
  • January 21 – Elizabeth Fones, American settler (d. 1673)
  • January 26 – Henry Hildyard, English Member of Parliament (d. 1674)
  • February 2
    • Francisco Ignacio Alcina, Jesuit missionary and historian (d. 1674)
    • Pierre Bourdelot, French physician (d. 1685)
    • Edmund Weaver, English politician (d. 1672)
  • February 11 – Salomon Idler, German inventor (d. 1669)
  • February 13 – Jean de Labadie, French pietist (d. 1674)
  • February 14 – Solomon Swale, English politician (d. 1678)
  • March 3 – Pierre Dupuis, French painter (d. 1682)
  • March 4 (bapt.) – William Dobson, English portraitist and painter (d. 1646)
  • March 14
    • Frederick Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis, English politician (d. 1662)
    • Simon Louis, Count of Lippe-Detmolt (1627–1636) (d. 1636)
  • July 2 – Francis Browne, 3rd Viscount Montagu in the Peerage of England (d. 1682)
  • July 6 – Hugh Forth, English politician (d. 1676)
  • July 8 (bapt.) – Richard Deane, English military commander and regicide (d. 1653)
  • July 11 – William Widdrington, 1st Baron Widdrington, English landowner, politician (d. 1651)
  • July 14 – Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1670)
  • July 18 – Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish dramatist and historian (d. 1686)
  • July 28 (bapt.) – Henry Glapthorne, English dramatist (d. c.1643)
  • July 30 – Lorens von der Linde, Swedish field marshal (d. 1670)
  • August 2 – Edward Master, English politician (d. 1691)
  • August 4 – Cornelis Evertsen the Elder, Dutch admiral (d. 1666)
  • August 23 – Susanna Margarete of Anhalt-Dessau, Princess of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1663)
  • September 4 – Giovanni Andrea Sirani, Italian painter (d. 1670)
  • September 6
    • Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena, Italian noble (d. 1658)
    • Luke Robinson, English politician (d. 1669)
    • David Wemyss, 2nd Earl of Wemyss, Scottish earl (d. 1679)
  • September 10 – Sir Edward Seymour, 3rd Baronet, Member of Parliament (d. 1688)
  • September 24 – Huang Zongxi, Chinese political theorist, philosopher, naturalist, writer and soldier (d. 1695)
  • September 28 – Henry Hastings, 1st Baron Loughborough, English Royalist army commander in the English Civil War (d. 1666)
  • September 29 – Gabriel Druillettes, French missionary (d. 1681)
  • October 3 – Gabriel Lalemant, Jesuit missionary in New France, beginning in 1646 (d. 1649)
  • October 6 – Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier, the governor of the Louis (d. 1690)
  • October 19 – James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, Anglo-Irish statesman and soldier (d. 1688)
  • October 28 – Jacob Kettler, German noble (d. 1682)
  • November 8 – Pietro Vidoni, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1681)
  • November 20 – Henry Heyman, English politician (d. 1658)
  • November 22 – Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony (d. 1684)
  • November 28 – Augustine Warner, Virginia planter, politician (d. 1674)
  • December 9 – Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato singer (d. 1680)
  • December 10 – Adriaen van Ostade, Dutch painter (d. 1685)
  • December 15 – David Teniers the Younger, Flemish artist born in Antwerp (d. 1690)
  • December 18 – Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist and historian (d. 1688)
  • December 25
    • David Christiani, German mathematician and philosopher (d. 1688)
    • Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Nottingham, son of Charles Howard (d. 1681)
  • December 28 – Basil of Ostrog, Serbian Orthodox bishop venerated as Saint Vasilije (d. 1671)
  • Dirck Rembrantsz van Nierop, Dutch astronomer and cartographer (d. 1682)
  • Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer (d. 1664)
  • Li Yu, Chinese writer (d. 1680)
  • François Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (d. 1683)
  • Karin Thomasdotter, Finnish official (d. 1697)
  • Emmanuel Tzanes, Greek painter (d. 1690)
  • Marie Meurdrac, French chemist and alchemist (d. 1680)
  • Leonora Duarte, Flemish composer and musician (d. 1678)
  • George Carteret, Jersey-born English Royalist statesman (d. 1680)
  • Jeremias de Dekker, Dutch poet (d. 1666)
  • Abraham Duquesne, French naval officer (d. 1688)
  • Jin Shengtan, Chinese editor (d. 1661)

1611

John Pell
William Cartwright (dramatist)
  • January 3 – James Harrington, English political theorist of classical republicanism (d. 1677)
  • January 5 – Tsarevich Ivan Dmitriyevich, pretender to the Russian throne (d. 1614)
  • January 28 – Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer (d. 1687)[86]
  • February 2 – Ulrik of Denmark, Danish prince-bishop (d. 1633)
  • February 3 – Christian Ulrik Gyldenløve, Danish diplomat and military officer (d. 1640)
  • February 5 (bapt.) – Philip Sherman, English-born founder of Rhode Island (d. 1687)
  • February 6 – Chongzhen Emperor of China (d. 1644)
  • February 19 – Andries de Graeff, Dutch politician (d. 1678)
  • February 24 (bapt.) – William Dobson (d. 1646)
  • February 28 – William Brereton, 2nd Baron Brereton, English politician (d. 1664)
  • March 1 – John Pell, English mathematician (d. 1685)
  • March 9 – Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot, French missionary (d. 1693)
  • March 15 – Jan Fyt, Flemish Baroque painter (d. 1661)
  • March 17 – Robert Douglas, Count of Skenninge, Swedish field marshal (d. 1662)
  • March 25 – Evliya Çelebi, Ottoman Turk, travelled around the Ottoman Empire for 40 years (d. 1682)
  • March 28
    • Magdalena Elisabeth of Hanau, German noblewoman (d. 1687)
    • Henry Sherburne, American colonist (d. 1680)
  • October 1 – Mathias Balen, Dutch writer (d. 1691)
  • October 11
    • Samuel Enys, English politician (d. 1697)
    • Hugues de Lionne, French statesman (d. 1671)
  • October 22 – Jacques Esprit, French writer (d. 1677)
  • October 26
    • Ove Bjelke, Norwegian civil servant (d. 1674)
    • Antonio Coello, Spanish dramatist and poet (d. 1652)
  • November 1
    • François-Marie, comte de Broglie, French soldier and commander in the Thirty Years' War (d. 1656)
    • Walter J. Johnson, English explorer and fur trader (d. 1703)
  • November 12 – Joachim Gersdorff, Danish politician (d. 1661)
  • November 18 – Andreas Tscherning, German poet (d. 1659)
  • December 23 – Abraham Wright, English theological writer and deacon (d. 1690)
  • December – Leonora Baroni, Italian singer (d. 1670)
  • Karl Eusebius, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1684)
  • Diego Quispe Tito, Peruvian painter (d. 1681)
  • Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan, French count and musketeer, on whom the fictional D'Artagnan from the novel The Three Musketeers is based (d. 1673)

1612

Thomas Killigrew
Pier Francesco Mola
Joannes Meyssens
Margherita de' Medici
Frans Post
  • January 17 – Thomas Fairfax, English Civil War general (d. 1671)[89]
  • January 21 – Henry Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz, Stadtholder of Groningen, Friesland and Drenthe (d. 1640)
  • January 22 – Daniel Zwicker, German physician (d. 1678)
  • January 23 – George FitzGerald, 16th Earl of Kildare, Irish earl (d. 1660)
  • February 1 – William West, English politician (d. 1670)
  • February 2 – Thomas Wentworth, 5th Baron Wentworth, English baron and politician (d. 1665)
  • February 4 – Arthur Spry, English politician (d. 1685)
  • February 5 – Crown Prince Sohyeon, Korean crown prince (d. 1645)
  • February 6 – Antoine Arnauld, French theologian (d. 1694)
  • February 7 – Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist and theatre manager (d. 1683)[90]
  • February 9 – Pier Francesco Mola, Italian painter of the High Baroque (d. 1666)
  • February 15 – Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve, French military officer, founder of Montreal in New France (d. 1676)
  • February 20 – Richard Olmsted, Connecticut settler (d. 1687)
  • February 21 – Lorenzo Imperiali, Italian cardinal (d. 1673)
  • February 22 (bapt.) – George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English statesman (d. 1677)
  • March 20 – Anne Bradstreet, née Dudley, English-born American Puritan poet (d. 1672)
  • April 6 – James Stewart, 1st Duke of Richmond (d. 1655)
  • April 10 – Francesco Lorenzo Brancati di Lauria, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1693)
  • April 12 – Simone Cantarini, Italian painter and engraver (d. 1648)
  • April 28 – Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza from 1622 to 1646 (d. 1646)
  • May 6 – François-Joseph Bressani, Italian missionary (d. 1672)
  • May 10 – Francesco Palliola, Italian Servant of God (d. 1648)
  • May 12 – Laurence Womock, English Bishop of St David's (d. 1687)
  • May 17
    • Matthew Babington, English politician (d. 1669)
    • Joannes Meyssens, Flemish painter (d. 1670)
  • May 26 – Raja Wodeyar II, King of Mysore (d. 1638)
  • May 31 – Margherita de' Medici, Italian noble (d. 1679)
  • June 1 – Frans Post, Dutch painter (d. 1680)
  • June 23 – André Tacquet, Brabantian mathematician, Jesuit priest (d. 1660)
  • June 25 – John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (d. 1634)
  • June 29 – Sir William Bowyer, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1679)

1613

Mattia Preti
Stjepan Gradić
André Le Nôtre
Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang
Claude Perrault
  • January 14 – Pier Martire Armani, Italian painter (d. 1699)
  • January 15 – Giovanni Pietro Bellori, Italian art historian (d. 1696)
  • January 21 – George Gillespie, Scottish theologian (d. 1648)
  • February 2
    • Noël Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons (d. 1649)
    • William Thomas, Welsh Anglican bishop (d. 1689)
  • February 7 – Johannes Musaeus, German theologian (d. 1681)
  • February 24 – Mattia Preti, Italian painter (d. 1699)
  • February 28 – John Pearson, English theologian and scholar (d. 1686)
  • March 6
    • Stjepan Gradić, Croatian philosopher and scientist (d. 1683)
    • Anna Moroni, Italian educator (d. 1675)
  • March 11 – Francesco Caetani, 8th Duke of Sermoneta, Governor of the Duchy of Milan (d. 1683)
  • March 12 – André Le Nôtre, French landscape and garden designer (d. 1700)[91]
  • March 19 – John Swinfen, English politician (d. 1694)
  • March 24 – Antonia of Württemberg, princess, literary figure, patron and Christian Kabbalist (d. 1679)
  • March 28 – Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, concubine of Qing dynasty ruler Hong Taiji (d. 1688)[92]
  • March 29 – Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy, French Bible translator (d. 1684)
  • April 1
    • Giulio Bartolocci, Italian Biblical scholar (d. 1687)
    • Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier and writer (d. 1703)
  • April 7 – Gerrit Dou, Dutch painter (d. 1675)
  • April 18 – Philip Wharton, 4th Baron Wharton, English soldier (d. 1696)
  • April 21 – Franciscus Plante, Dutch painter, chaplain (d. 1690)
  • April 29 – Christoph Bach, German musician (d. 1661)
  • May 9 – Mattias de' Medici, Italian noble (d. 1667)
  • May 10 – François Chauveau, French painter (d. 1676)
  • May 15 – George Seton, Lord Seton, Scottish noble (d. 1648)
  • May 31 – John George II, Elector of Saxony (1656-1680) (d. 1680)
  • June 1 – William Wirich, Count of Daun-Falkenstein, German nobleman (d. 1682)
  • June 13 – Johann Ernst, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (1641–1642) (d. 1642)
  • June 16 – John Cleveland, English poet (d. 1658)
  • July 15 – Gu Yanwu, Chinese philologist and geographer (d. 1682)
  • July 16 – Alderano Cybo, Catholic cardinal (d. 1700)
  • August 7 – William Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Dietz, Dutch stadtholder (d. 1664)
  • August 15 – Gilles Ménage, French scholar (d. 1692)
  • August 18 – Sir Thomas Peyton, 2nd Baronet, English politician (d. 1684)
  • August 20 – Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg, German poet composer and (by marriage) Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1676)
  • August 24 – Bartholomew Holzhauser, German priest, founder of a religious community, visionary, writer of prophecies (d. 1658)
  • August 29 – John Jolliffe, English politician and businessman (d. 1680)
  • September 8 – Henri Albert de La Grange d'Arquien, Catholic cardinal (d. 1707)
  • September 15 – François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (d. 1680)[93]
  • September 19 – Sir John Norwich, 1st Baronet, English Member of Parliament (d. 1661)
  • September 25 – Claude Perrault, French architect (d. 1688)
  • October 3 – Marion Delorme, French courtesan known for her relationships with the important men of her time (d. 1650)
  • October 12 – Jacques d'Arthois, Flemish painter (d. 1686)
  • October 13
    • Luisa de Guzmán, Duchess of Braganza, queen consort of Portugal (d. 1666)
    • Adriaan Heereboord, Dutch philosopher (d. 1661)
  • October 19 – Charles of Sezze, Italian Franciscan friar and saint (d. 1670)
  • October 28 – Edmund Bowyer, English politician (d. 1681)
  • November 5 – Isaac de Benserade, French poet (d. 1691)[94]
  • November 12 – Sir Ralph Verney, 1st Baronet, of Middle Claydon, English Baronet (d. 1696)
  • November 16 – Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Harzgerode (1635–1670) (d. 1670)
  • November 20 – Tyman Oosdorp, Dutch Golden Age brewer and magistrate of Haarlem (d. 1668)
  • November 24 – John Knight, Member of the Parliament of England (d. 1683)
  • November 25 – Philip VII, Count of Waldeck-Wildungen (1638–1645) (d. 1645)
  • December 4 (bapt.) – Samuel Butler, English satirist (d. 1680)
  • December 10 – Izaak van Oosten, Flemish painter (d. 1661)
  • December 11 – Amar Singh Rathore, Rajput nobleman affiliated with the royal house of Marwar (d. 1644)
  • December 23 – Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Field Marshal of Sweden (d. 1676)
  • December 28 – Bullen Reymes, English courtier, diplomat and politician (d. 1672)
  • Henry Vane, English politician (d. 1662)
  • Khushal Khan Khattak, Afghan poet (d. 1690)
  • Richard Crashaw, English poet (d. 1649)

1614

Christopher Merret
Jahanara Begum
Martino Martini
  • January 1
    • Henry Frederick, Hereditary Prince of the Palatinate (d. 1629)
    • Luis Guillermo de Moncada, 7th Duke of Montalto, Spanish Catholic cardinal (d. 1672)
  • January 5 – Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (d. 1662)
  • January 10 – Kanō Yasunobu, Japanese painter of the Kanō school of painting, during the Edo period (d. 1685)
  • January 20 – Samuel Gott, English politician (d. 1671)[95]
  • February 2 – Robert Ellison, English politician (d. 1678)
  • February 8 – Thomas Wendy, English politician (d. 1673)
  • February 14 – John Wilkins, English bishop, academic and natural philosopher (d. 1672)
  • February 16 – Christopher Merret, English physician and scientist (d. 1695)
  • March 3 – Sir Peter Leycester, 1st Baronet, British historian (d. 1678)
  • March 8 – Hendrik van der Borcht II, German painter (d. 1676)
  • March 15 – Franciscus Sylvius, Dutch physician and scientist (d. 1672)
  • March 25
    • Thomas Chicheley, English politician who fell from favour, during the reign of James II (d. 1699)
    • Juan Carreño de Miranda, Spanish artist (d. 1685)
  • April 1 – Martin Schoock, Dutch academic (d. 1669)
  • April 2 – Jahanara Begum, Mughal princess (d. 1681)
  • April 10 – William Thompson, English Member of Parliament (d. 1681)
  • April 11 – Helena Fourment, Dutch model, second wife of Peter Paul Rubens (d. 1673)
  • April 18 – Nicolas Robert, French painter (d. 1685)
  • April 25
    • Hieronymus van Beverningh, Dutch diplomat and politician (d. 1690)
    • Marc'Antonio Pasqualini, Italian opera singer and composer (d. 1691)
  • May 10 – Zacharias Wagenaer, secretary, painter, then merchant and administrator (Dutch East-India Company) (d. 1668)
  • May 12 – Giovanni Bernardo Carboni, Italian painter (d. 1683)
  • May 28 – Gustav Evertsson Horn, Finnish-Swedish politician, Field Marshal (d. 1666)
  • June 15 – Emilie of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst, Regent of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1646–1662) (d. 1670)
  • June 24 – John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse of England (d. 1689)
  • Franciscus Sylvius, German scientist (d. 1672)
  • Song Wan, Qing Dyansty poet and politician

1615

Govert Flinck
Pieter de Groot
Erdmann August of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
Richard Baxter
  • January 6 – Richard Waldron, colonial settler, acting President of the Province of New Hampshire (d. 1689)
  • January 10 – Sir John Robinson, 1st Baronet, of London, English politician (d. 1680)
  • January 13 – Henrik Bjelke, Norwegian military officer (d. 1683)
  • January 14 – John Biddle, English theologian (d. 1662)
  • January 20 – Karmabai, Indian Jat known as Bhakt Shiromani Karmabai (d. 1634)
  • January 25 – Govert Flinck, Dutch painter of the Dutch Golden Age (d. 1660)
  • January 27 – Nicolas Fouquet, French Superintendent of Finances (d. 1680)[96]
  • January 30 – Thomas Rolfe, only child of Pocahontas and her English husband (d. 1675)
  • February 18 – Maria Caterina Farnese, Duchess of Modena and Reggio (d. 1646)
  • February 27 – Isaac Thornton, English politician (d. 1669)
  • March 10 – Hans Ulrik Gyldenløve, illegitimate son of King Christian IV of Denmark and his mistress (d. 1645)
  • March 11 – Johann Weikhard of Auersperg, Austrian prime minister (d. 1677)
  • March 13 – Pope Innocent XII (d. 1700)[97]
  • March 17 – Gregorio Carafa, Grandmaster of the Order of Saint John (d. 1690)
  • March 20 – Dara Shikoh, Indian prince (d. 1659)
  • March 22 – Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh, English female scientist (d. 1691)
  • March 28 – Pieter de Groot, Dutch diplomat (d. 1678)
  • March 28 – Cosimo Ruggeri, Italian astrologer
  • April 7 – Charles Cotterell, English courtier (d. 1701)
  • April 9 – John Wright, British politician (d. 1683)
  • April 16 – Edward Rawson, American settler (d. 1693)
  • April 17 – Jacques Goulet, early pioneer in New France (now Québec) (d. 1688)
  • April 24 – Klas Hansson Bjelkenstjerna, Swedish naval officer and civil servant (d. 1662)
  • May 30 – Richard Neville, English soldier and MP (d. 1676)
  • June 3 – Giles Strangways, English politician (d. 1675)
  • June 15 – Samuel Sandys, English politician (d. 1685)
  • June 20 (or July 31) – Salvator Rosa, Italian painter (d. 1673)

1616

Ferdinand Bol
John Leverett
Nicholas Culpeper
John Wallis
  • January 1 – Nabeshima Naozumi, Japanese daimyō (d. 1669)
  • January 5 – Alexander von Bournonville, Flemish noble and general (d. 1690)
  • January 13 – Antoinette Bourignon, French-Flemish mystic and adventurer (d. 1680)
  • January 16 – François de Vendôme, Duke of Beaufort, French soldier (d. 1669)
  • January 20 – Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski, Polish noble (szlachcic) (d. 1667)
  • January 27 or January 28 – Christen Aagaard, Danish poet (d. 1664)
  • February 1 – Sophie Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess consort of Saxe-Altenburg (d. 1650)
  • February 2 – Sébastien Bourdon, French painter and engraver (d. 1671)
  • February 14 – Marc Restout, French painter (d. 1684)
  • February 25 – Isaack Luttichuys, Dutch Golden Age painter (d. 1673)
  • February 27 – István Esterházy, member of the wealthy Hungarian Esterházy family (d. 1641)
  • February 28
    • Kaspar Förster, German singer and composer (d. 1673)
    • Frederick of Hesse-Darmstadt, German Catholic cardinal (d. 1682)
  • March 1 – Maurizio Cazzati, Italian composer (d. 1678)
  • March 9 – Robert Giguère, early pioneer in New France (d. 1709)
  • March 13 – Joseph Beaumont, British academic and poet (d. 1699)
  • March 16 – Thomas Jervoise, English politician (d. 1693)
  • March 29 – Johann Erasmus Kindermann, German composer and organist (d. 1655)
  • April 1 – Christian Günther II, Count of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen-Arnstadt (1642–1666) (d. 1666)
  • April 2 – Herbert Morley, English politician (d. 1667)
  • April 5 – Frederick, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (d. 1661)
  • April 7 – Thomas Hopkins, early Providence, Rhode Island settler (d. 1684)
  • April 19 – Louis IV of Legnica, Duke of Oława and Brzeg (1633–1654) (d. 1663)
  • April 24 – Gustav, Count of Vasaborg, illegitimate son of King Gustavus Adolphus and his mistress Margareta Slots (d. 1653)
  • April 27 – Jeremias Felbinger, German Socinian writer (d. 1690)
  • May 1 – Frederick III, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1625–1634) (d. 1634)
  • May 16 – Archibald Primrose, Lord Carrington, Scottish judge (d. 1679)
  • May 19 – Johann Jakob Froberger, German composer and keyboardist (d. 1667)
  • May 23 – Sir Edward Bagot, 2nd Baronet, English politician (d. 1673)
  • May 24 – John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale (d. 1682)
  • May 25 – Carlo Dolci, Italian painter (d. 1686)
  • May 27 – Christina Magdalena of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken, Swedish Princess by birth; margravine of Baden-Durlach by marriage (d. 1662)
  • June – John Thurloe, English spymaster for Oliver Cromwell (d. 1668)
  • June 3 – George Courthope, English politician (d. 1685)
  • June 23 – Shah Shuja, second son of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal (d. 1661)
  • June 24
    • Ferdinand Bol, Dutch Dutch painter, etcher and draftsman (d. 1680)
    • Philipp, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1661–1671) (d. 1671)
  • June 25 – James Livingstone, 1st Viscount Kilsyth of Scotland (d. 1661)
  • June 28 – Lucas Franchoys the Younger, Flemish painter (d. 1681)
  • July 7 (bapt.) – John Leverett, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (d. 1679)
  • July 10 – Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra, Spanish artist (d. 1668)
  • July 21 – Anna de' Medici, Archduchess of Austria (d. 1676)
  • August – William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford, British peer and soldier (d. 1700)
  • August 6 – John Higginson, English minister (d. 1708)
  • August 12 – Johann Paul Freiherr von Hocher, Austrian chancellor (d. 1683)
  • August 18 – John Hervey, English courtier and politician (d. 1680)
  • August 30 – Giovan Battista Nani, Italian historian and diplomat (d. 1678)
  • September 9 – Nicolás de Villacis, Spanish painter (d. 1694)
  • September 25 – Alexander Morus, Franco-Scottish Calvinist preacher (d. 1670)
  • Charles Albanel, French missionary (d. 1696)
  • Henry Bard, 1st Viscount Bellomont, English Royalist (d. 1656)
  • Jan Kazimierz Chodkiewicz, Polish nobleman (szlachcic) (d. 1660)
  • Thomas Harrison, English Puritan soldier and Fifth Monarchist (d. 1660)
  • William Holder, English music theorist (d. 1698)
  • Kamalakara, Indian astronomer/mathematician (d. 1700)
  • Johann Klaj, German poet (d. 1656)
  • Kuzma Minin, merchant from Nizhny Novgorod
  • Sokuhi Nyoitsu, Buddhist monk (d. 1671)
  • John Owen, English Nonconformist theologian (d. 1683)
  • Edward Sexby, English Puritan soldier/Leveller (d. 1658)
  • Obadiah Walker, Master of University College, Oxford (d. 1699)
  • Caesar van Everdingen, Dutch older brother of Allart van Everdingen (d. 1678)
  • Matthias Weckmann, German musician/composer (d. 1674)
  • Trijntje Keever, presumed to have been the tallest woman ever (d. 1633)
  • A Greenland shark, still alive

1617

Lucas Faydherbe
Elias Ashmole
Richard Lovelace
  • January 6 – Christoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (d. 1673)
  • January 19 – Lucas Faydherbe, Belgian sculptor and architect (d. 1697)
  • January 22 – Lodewijck Neefs, Flemish painter (d. 1649)
  • January 23 – Ralph Josselin, English clergyman (d. 1683)
  • January 30
    • Isaac de Porthau, Gascon black musketeer of the Maison du Roi (d. 1712)
    • William Sancroft, 79th Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1693)
  • February 5 – Jan Thomas van Ieperen, Flemish engraver, painter (d. 1673)
  • February 22 – Robert Culliford, English politician (d. 1698)
  • March 8 – Tito Livio Burattini, Italian inventor, Egyptologist, instrument-maker (d. 1681)
  • March 17
    • David Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor and author (d. 1692)
    • Johann Georg Macasius, German physician (d. 1653)
  • April 4 – Sir George Wharton, 1st Baronet, English baronet (d. 1681)
  • April 20 – Sir John Goodricke, 1st Baronet, English landowner and politician (d. 1670)
  • May 3 – Roger Pepys, English lawyer and politician (d. 1688)
  • May 9 – Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege (d. 1655)
  • May 23 – Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian (d. 1692)[99]
  • June 2 – Maeda Toshitsugu, Japanese daimyō of the early Edo period (d. 1674)
  • June 13 – Sir Vincent Corbet, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1656)
  • June 18 – George Evelyn, English politician (d. 1699)
  • June 20 – Franciscus Bonae Spei, French Catholic scholastic theologian, philosopher (d. 1677)
  • July 31 – Nicolás Antonio, Spanish bibliographer born in Seville (d. 1684)
  • August 10 – Richard Ingoldsby, English politician (d. 1685)
  • August 13 – Johannes Andreas Quenstedt, German theologian (d. 1688)
  • August 25 – Frances Hyde, Countess of Clarendon, English noble (d. 1667)
  • September 3 – Roshanara Begum, Mughal princess (d. 1671)
  • September 13 – Margravine Louise Charlotte of Brandenburg, Duchess of Courland by marriage (1645–1676) (d. 1676)
  • September 25 – Sir Francis Drake, 2nd Baronet, English Member of Parliament (d. 1662)
  • September 29 – Lothar Friedrich von Metternich-Burscheid, Prince-Bishop of Speyer (1652–1675) (d. 1675)
  • October 5 – Dorothy Spencer, Countess of Sunderland, English countess (d. 1684)
  • October 10 – William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire, English nobleman (d. 1684)
  • October 12 – Sir Francis Gerard, 2nd Baronet, English Member of Parliament (d. 1680)
  • October 17 – Dionisio Lazzari, Italian sculptor and architect (d. 1689)
  • October 28
    • Cornelius Hazart, Dutch Jesuit priest, polemical author (d. 1690)
    • Antoine Garaby de La Luzerne, French poet (d. 1679)
  • November 4 – Johannes Hoornbeek, Dutch theologian (d. 1666)
  • November 6 – Leopoldo de' Medici, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1675)
  • November 16 – Frederick VI, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1659–1677) (d. 1677)
  • November 19 – Eustache Le Sueur, French painter (d. 1655)
  • December – Gerard ter Borch, Dutch painter (d. 1681)
  • December 4 – Federico Visconti, Cardinal Archbishop of Milan (d. 1693)
  • December 9 – Richard Lovelace, English poet (d. 1657)[100]
  • December 22 – Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine (d. 1680)
  • December 23 – Magdalene Sibylle of Saxony, Crown Princess of Denmark (d. 1668)
  • December 25 – Jean de Coligny-Saligny, French noble and army commander (d. 1686)
  • Paolo Casati, Italian Jesuit mathematician (d. 1707)
  • Lozang Gyatso, 5th Dalai Lama (d. 1682)

1618

Jan Six
Sir Peter Lely
Aurangzeb
  • April 2 – Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1663)[103]
  • April 4 – Ferrante III Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla, Italian noble (d. 1678)
  • April 9 – Christian, Duke of Brieg, Duke of Legnica (1663–1672) and Brieg (1664–1672) (d. 1672)
  • April 13 – Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (d. 1693)
  • April 14 – Thomas Moore, English politician (d. 1695)[104]
  • April 29 – Vittoria Farnese d'Este, Duchess of Modena and Reggio (d. 1649)
  • May 22 – Henrik Horn, Swedish military leader and noble (d. 1693)
  • June 1 – Johann Franck, German poet and hymnist (d. 1677)
  • June 15
    • François Blondel, French architect (d. 1686)
    • Ippolito Lante Montefeltro della Rovere, Italian nobleman and Duke of Bomarzo (d. 1688)
  • June 24 – Philip Packer, British barrister and architect (d. 1686)
  • June 28 – Jean Le Pautre, French designer and engraver (d. 1682)
  • July 6 – Alexander Lindsay, 1st Earl of Balcarres, Scottish politician and noble (d. 1659)[105]
  • July 17
    • Willem Ogier, Flemish playwright (d. 1689)
    • George Stewart, 9th Seigneur d'Aubigny, Scottish nobleman and military commander (d. 1642)
  • July 21 – Hayashi Gahō, Japanese philosopher (d. 1688)
  • July 22 – Johan Nieuhof, Dutch traveler who wrote about his journeys to Brazil (d. 1672)
  • September 6 – Walter Hoyt, Connecticut settler (d. 1698)
  • September 9 – Joan Cererols, Catalan musician and Benedictine monk (d. 1680)
  • September 11 – Francesco Grue, Italian artist (d. 1673)
  • September 14 – Peter Lely, Dutch painter (d. 1680)[106]
  • September 27 – Jacob Alting, Dutch linguist (d. 1679)
  • September 29 – Michiel Sweerts, Flemish painter (d. 1664)
  • October 8 – Claude Lamoral, 3rd Prince of Ligne, Spanish general and prince (d. 1679)
  • October 7 – Rosina Schnorr, German businessperson (d. 1679)
  • October 31 – Mariana de Jesús de Paredes, Catholic saint, the first person to be canonized from Ecuador (d. 1645)
  • November – Simon Arnauld, Marquis de Pomponne, French diplomat and minister of Louis XIV (d. 1699)
  • November 1 – Sir John Wittewrong, 1st Baronet, English parliamentarian (d. 1693)
  • November 3 – Aurangzeb, Mughal emperor of India (d. 1707)
  • November 8 – Louise de La Fayette, French courtier, friend of King Louis XIII (d. 1665)
  • November 12 – Gottfried Welsch, German physician (d. 1690)
  • November 16 – Johann Ludwig Schönleben, Carniolan priest (d. 1681)
  • November 26 – Johan Frederik von Marschalck, German-born landowner, Chancellor of Norway (d. 1679)
  • December 2
    • Edward Bayntun, English politician (d. 1679)
    • Nicholas Delves, English politician (d. 1690)
  • December 3 – Sir William Ayloffe, 3rd Baronet, officer in the Royalist army during the English Civil War (d. 1662)
  • December 18 – Karl Kaspar von der Leyen, German Catholic archbishop (d. 1676)
  • December 26 – Elisabeth of the Palatinate, German princess, philosopher, and Calvinist (d. 1680)
  • December 28 – Catharina Hooft, noblewoman of the Dutch Golden Age (d. 1691)[107]
  • Athittayawong, Ayutthayan monarch (d. 1629)
  • Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, English politician (member of the Cabal) d. 1685)

1619

Charles Le Brun
Peter Mews
Anna Sophia I, Abbess of Quedlinburg
Jan van Riebeeck
Carel van Savoyen
Rijcklof van Goens
Anne Geneviève de Bourbon
  • January 10 – Philip Sidney, 3rd Earl of Leicester, English politician (d. 1698)
  • January 14
    • Thomas Archer, English politician (d. 1685)
    • Alexander von Spaen, German general (d. 1692)
  • January 17 – Johanna Elisabeth of Nassau-Hadamar, by marriage Princess of Anhalt-Harzgerode (d. 1647)
  • January 21
    • Anders Bording, Danish writer (d. 1677)
    • John Rashleigh, English politician (d. 1693)
  • January 24 – Yamazaki Ansai, Japanese philosopher (d. 1682)
  • January 30 – Michelangelo Ricci, Roman Catholic cardinal, mathematician (d. 1682)
  • February 1 – Robert Phelips, English politician (d. 1707)
  • February 2 – Walter Charleton, English natural philosopher (d. 1707)
  • February 9 – Queen Inseon, Korean royal consort (d. 1674)
  • February 15 – Tsugaru Nobuyoshi, Japanese daimyō (d. 1655)
  • February 24
    • Robert Aske, merchant in the City of London (d. 1689)
    • Charles Le Brun, French painter and art theorist (d. 1690)[108]
  • February 26 – Francesco Morosini, Doge of Venice from 1688 to 1694 (d. 1694)
  • February 28 – Giuseppe Felice Tosi, Italian composer (d. 1693)
  • March 2 – Marcantonio Giustinian, 107th Doge of Venice (d. 1688)
  • March 5 – Joseph Ames, English naval commander (d. 1695)
  • March 6 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier and poet (d. 1655)
  • March 13 – Tobias Lohner, Austrian Jesuit theologian (d. 1697)[109]
  • March 15 – Jean Le Vacher, French Lazarist missionary and French consul (d. 1683)
  • March 20 – Georg Albrecht, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach (d. 1666)
  • March 25 – Peter Mews, English Royalist theologian and bishop (d. 1706)
  • March 28 – Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz (1657–1681) (d. 1681)
  • April 2
    • Onofrio Gabrieli, Italian painter (d. 1706)
    • Anna Sophia I, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Dutch abbess (d. 1680)
  • April 11 – Abraham van der Hulst, Dutch admiral (d. 1666)
  • April 21 – Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch founder of Cape Town (d. 1677)
  • April 30 – Johannes Spilberg, Dutch painter (d. 1690)
  • May
    • James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair, Scottish lawyer and statesman (d. 1695)
    • André Félibien, French court historian (d. 1695)
    • Andrew Ramsay, Lord Abbotshall, Scottish judge and politician (d. 1688)
  • May 20 – Abiezer Coppe, English "Ranter" and pamphleteer (d. 1672)
  • May 24 (bapt.) – Philips Wouwerman, Dutch painter (d. 1668)
  • May 26 – King Pye Min of Burma (d. 1672)
  • June 13 – Jan Victors, Dutch painter (d. 1676)
  • June 14 (bapt.) – Sir Jeffrey Hudson, English court dwarf (d. 1682)
  • June 24 – Rijcklof van Goens, Dutch colonial governor (d. 1682)
  • July 3 – Hyojong of Joseon, 17th king of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea (1649–1659) (d. 1659)
  • July 13 – Birgitta Durell, Swedish industrialist (d. 1683)
  • July 27 – Sir Henry Felton, 2nd Baronet, English Member of Parliament (d. 1690)
  • August 5 – Thomas Hall, English politician (d. 1667)
  • August 6 – Barbara Strozzi, Italian singer and composer (d. 1677)
  • August 7 – Anna Catherine Constance Vasa, Polish princess, daughter of King Sigismund III Vasa (d. 1651)
  • August 15
    • Francesco Maria Farnese, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1647)
    • Hubertus Quellinus, Flemish artist (d. 1687)
  • August 21 – Sir John Borlase, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1672)
  • August 28
    • Anne Geneviève de Bourbon, French princess who is remembered for her beauty and amours (d. 1679)
    • Louis Thomassin, French bishop and theologian (d. 1695)
  • August 29 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (d. 1683)
  • September 20 – Sophie Elisabeth Pentz, daughter of Christian IV of Denmark (d. 1657)
  • September 21 – Sir John Wray, 3rd Baronet, English politician (d. 1664)
  • Donald Cargill, Scottish Covenanter (d. 1681)
  • Gu Mei, politically influential Chinese courtesan, poet and painter (d. 1664)
  • Samuel Collins, English doctor and author (d. 1670)
  • Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 8th Duke of Alburquerque, Spanish military officer and viceroy (d. 1676)
  • Willem Kalf, Dutch painter (d. 1693)
  • Kumazawa Banzan, Japanese philosopher (d. 1691)
  • Shalom Shabazi, Jewish Yemeni rabbi and poet (d. c. 1720)
  • Wang Fuzhi, Chinese philosopher (d. 1692)

Deaths

1610

Princess Anna Maria of Sweden
Servant of God Matteo Ricci
King Henry IV of France
Thomas Tesdale
Adam Elsheimer
  • January 1
    • Cinzio Passeri Aldobrandini, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1551)
    • François Feuardent, French theologian (b. 1539)
  • January 9 – Herman van der Mast, Dutch Renaissance painter from the Northern Netherlands (b. c. 1550)
  • January 10 – Mateo de Oviedo, Archbishop of Dublin (b. 1547)
  • February 4 – Hannibal Vyvyan, English politician (b. 1545)
  • February 5 – Strange Jørgenssøn, Norwegian businessman (b. 1539)
  • February 22 – Polykarp Leyser the Elder, German theologian (b. 1552)
  • February 27 – Philippe Canaye, French diplomat (b. 1551)
  • March 6 – Benedict Pereira, Spanish theologian (b. 1535)
  • March 7 – Maria, Abbess of Quedlinburg, German abbess (b. 1571)
  • March 19
    • Valeriano Muti, Italian Catholic prelate (year of birth unknown)
    • Hasegawa Tōhaku, Japanese painter (b. 1539)
  • March 20 – Princess Anna Maria of Sweden, Swedish royal (b. 1545)
  • March 24 – Henry Cocke, English politician (b. 1538)
  • March 28 – Wolfgang, Count of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim, German count (b. 1546)
  • March 30 – Thomas Gorges, English knight (b. 1536)
Caravaggio

1611

Juan de Ribera
Christian II, Elector of Saxony
Eleanor de' Medici
Charles IX of Sweden
  • January 6 – Juan de Ribera, Spanish Catholic archbishop (b. 1532)
  • January 16 – Niiro Tadamoto, Japanese samurai (b. 1526)
  • February 7 – Ruprecht von Eggenberg, Austrian general (b. 1546)
  • February 12 – Henry Lee of Ditchley, English noble (b. 1533)
  • February 26 – Antonio Possevino, Italian Jesuit protagonist of Counter Reformation, papal diplomat (b. 1533)
  • March 2 – Ernest II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, (b. 1564)
  • March 3 – William Douglas, 10th Earl of Angus, son of William Douglas (b. 1552)
  • March 5 – Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1533)
  • March 13 – Louis III, Count of Löwenstein (1541–1611) (b. 1530)
  • March 17 – Princess Sophia of Sweden (b. 1547)
  • March 20 – Johann Georg Gödelmann, German demonologist (b. 1559)
  • April 23 – Martin Ruland the Younger, German alchemist (b. 1569)
  • May 19
    • Frederick IX, Margrave of Brandenburg, Grand Master of the Order of Saint John (b. 1588)
    • Zhu Zaiyu (b. 1536)
  • June 8 – Jean Bertaut, French poet (b. 1552)[111]
  • June 23 – Christian II, Elector of Saxony (b. 1583)
  • Camillo Mariani, Italian sculptor (b. 1565)
  • Tiryaki Hasan Pasha, Turkish beylerbey
  • Henry Hudson, English explorer[114]

1612

Leonard Holliday
Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah
Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua
Anne Catherine of Brandenburg
Edward Seymour, Lord Beauchamp
John Salusbury
  • April 5 – Diana Scultori, Italian engraver
  • April 8 – Anne Catherine of Brandenburg (b. 1575)
  • April 11
    • Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (b. 1535)[117]
    • Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (burned at the stake) (b. 1580)
  • April 19 – Anne d'Escars de Givry, French Catholic cardinal (b. 1546)
  • April 21 – David van Goorle, theologian and theoretical scientist (b. 1591)
  • May – False Dmitry III, pretender to the Russian throne (secretly executed)[118]
  • May 19 – Gregorio Petrocchini, Italian Cardinal Bishop, Conclave member, Cardinal protector of the Augustines (b. 1535)
  • May 24 – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English statesman and spymaster (b. 1563)
  • May 31 – Willem Isaacsz Swanenburg, Dutch engraver (b. 1580)
  • June 5 – Arima Harunobu, Japanese daimyō (b. 1567)
  • June 8 – Hans Leo Hassler, German composer (b. 1562)
  • June 21 – Edward Seymour, Lord Beauchamp (b. 1561)
  • June 26 – Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland, eldest surviving son of John Manners (b. 1576)
  • Federico Barocci, Italian painter (b. c. 1535)
  • Isabel Barreto, Spanish admiral (b. 1567)

1613

Juan García López-Rico
Ikeda Terumasa
Sigismund Báthory
  • January 2 – Salima Sultan Begum, Empress of the Mughal Empire (b. 1539)
  • January 12 – George Blackwell, English Catholic archpriest (b. 1545)
  • January 18 – Antoon Claeissens, Flemish Baroque painter (b. 1536)
  • January 27 – Anna of Saxony, German noblewoman (b. 1567)
  • January 28 – Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and library founder (b. 1545)[127]
  • February 14 – Juan García López-Rico, Spanish Catholic priest from the Trinitarian Order, founded the Order of Discalced Carmelites (b. 1561)
  • February 16 – Johannes Letzner, German Protestant priest and historian (b. 1531)
  • February 27 – Pietro Facchetti, Italian painter (b. 1539)
  • March 2 – Rudolph Snellius, Dutch linguist and mathematician (b. 1546)
  • March 13 – Giovanni Battista Caccini, Italian artist (b. 1556)
  • March 16
    • Sigrid Sture, Swedish Governor (b. 1538)
    • Ikeda Terumasa, Japanese daimyō (b. 1565)
  • March 23 – Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont, Spanish inventor (b. 1553)
  • March 27 – Sigismund Báthory, Prince of Transylvania (b. 1572)
  • April 27 – Robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit missionary (b. 1532)
  • June 3 – Allahverdi Khan, Georgian-born Iranian general (b. 1590)
  • June 8 – Cigoli, Italian painter (b. 1559)
  • June 15 – Magdalena Moons, Dutch heroine (b. 1541)
  • July 2 – Bartholomaeus Pitiscus, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1561)
  • July 19 – Nicolaus van Aelst, Flemish engraver (b. 1526)
  • July 20 – Sebastian Lubomirski, Polish-Lithuanian nobleman (szlachcic) (b. c. 1546)
  • July 30 – Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1564)
  • August 1
    • Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect (b. 1543)
    • Thomas Twyne, English actor (b. 1543)
  • August 7 – Thomas Fleming, English judge (b. 1544)
  • August 14 – David Lindsay, Scottish bishop (b. 1531)
  • August 18 – Giovanni Artusi, Italian composer (b. c. 1540)
  • August 22 – Dominicus Baudius, Dutch historian and poet (b. 1561)
  • August 25 – William Waldegrave, English Member of Parliament (b. 1540)
  • September 8
  • September 14 – Thomas Overbury, English poet and essayist (murdered) (b. 1581)
  • October 9 – Henry Constable, English poet (b. 1562)
  • October 11 – John Petre, 1st Baron Petre, English politician (b. 1549)
  • October 22 – Mathurin Régnier, French satirist (b. 1573)
  • October 26 – Johann Bauhin, Swiss botanist (b. 1541)
  • October 27 – Gabriel Báthory, Prince of Transylvania (b. 1589)
  • November 4 – Cristóbal Rodríguez Juárez, Spanish Catholic archbishop (b. 1547)
  • November 16 – Trajano Boccalini, Italian satirist (b. 1556)
  • November 21 – Rose Lok, English Marian exile (b. 1526)
  • November 23 – Charles Philippe de Croÿ, Marquis d’Havré, Belgian noble and politician (b. 1549)
  • November 26 – Henry Berkeley, 7th Baron Berkeley, English politician (b. 1534)
  • December 6 – Anton Praetorius, German pastor (b. 1560)
  • December 7 – Simon VI, Count of Lippe, imperial count and ruler of the County of Lippe (Germany) since 1563 (b. 1554)
  • date unknown
    • Phùng Khắc Khoan, Vietnamese military strategist, politician, diplomat and poet (b. 1528)
    • Beatrice Michiel, Venetian spy (b. 1553)

1614

Maeda Toshinaga
Johannes Magirus the elder
Man Singh I
Camillus de Lellis
  • July 1
    • Maximiliano de Austria, Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela (1603–1614) (b. 1555)
    • Isaac Casaubon, French-born classical scholar (b. 1559)
  • July 4 – Johannes Magirus the elder, German Lutheran theologian (b. 1537)
  • July 6
    • Sir Anthony Cope, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1548)
    • Man Singh I, Rajput Raja of Amer, India (b. 1550)
  • July 14 – Camillus de Lellis, Italian saint (b. 1550)
  • July 15 – Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, French historian and biographer
  • July 16 – Tsarevich Ivan Dmitriyevich, pretender to the Russian throne, son of False Dmitry II (b. 1611)
  • July 19 – Akizuki Tanenaga, Japanese samurai (b. 1567)
  • July 28 – Felix Plater, Swiss physician (b. 1536)
  • July 30 – Walter Cope, English noble (b. 1553)
  • August 3 – François de Bourbon, Prince of Conti, third son of Louis I de Bourbon (b. 1558)
  • August 11 – Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (b. 1552)[130]
  • August 21 – Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian noblewoman and purported serial killer (b. 1560)[131]
  • August 22 – Philipp Ludwig, Count Palatine of Neuburg, Duke of Palatinate-Neuburg from 1569 until 1614 (b. 1547)
  • September – Giovanni de Macque, Dutch composer (b. c. 1550)
  • September 21 – Jerome Gratian, Spanish Carmelite and writer (b. 1545)
  • October 2 – Carlo Sellitto, Italian painter (b. 1581)
  • October 9 – Bonaventura Vulcanius, Flemish Renaissance humanist (b. 1538)
  • October 15 – Peder Claussøn Friis, Norwegian clergyman and author (b. 1545)
  • October 26 – Sibylla of Anhalt, Duchess consort of Württemberg (1593–1608) (b. 1564)
  • November 15 – Catherine, Duchess of Braganza, Portuguese infanta (princess), claimant to the throne following the death of King Henry (b. 1540)
  • November 29 – Mogami Yoshiaki, Japanese daimyō of the Yamagata domain (b. 1546)
  • December 27 – Maximiliaan de Vriendt, Dutch new Latin poet and a civic office-holder in the city of Ghent (b. 1559)
  • Bartholomäus Scultetus, mayor of Görlitz (b. 1540)
  • Ebba Stenbock, politically active Swedish-Finnish noblewoman

1615

Virginia de' Medici
John Ogilvie
Cherubino Alberti
Gervase Helwys
Gerard Reynst
  • April 1 – Miklós Istvánffy, Hungarian politician (b. 1538)
  • April 12 – William Lower, British astronomer (b. 1570)
  • May 4 – Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (b. 1561)
  • May 5 – Juan Fernandez Pacheco, 5th Duke of Escalona, Spanish noble and diplomat (b. 1563)
  • May 9 – John Perrin, English translator (b. 1558)
  • May 15
    • Henry Bromley, English politician (b. 1560)
    • William Wilson, English priest (b. 1545)
  • May 20 – Dirck van Os, Dutch merchant (b. 1556)
  • June 2
    • Kuwana Yoshinari, Japanese samurai (b. 1551)
    • Kimura Shigenari, Japanese samurai (b. 1593)
  • June 3
    • Hattori Masanari, Japanese samurai (b. 1565)
    • Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (b. 1567)
  • June 4 – Ujiie Yukihiro, Japanese samurai and feudal lord, from the Sengoku period to the beginning of Edo period (b. 1546)
  • June 23
    • Roland Lytton, English politician (b. 1561)
    • Mashita Nagamori, minor Japanese daimyō (b. 1545)
  • October 9 – Hasan Kafi Pruščak, Bosnian scholar and judge (b. 1544)
  • October 16
    • Françoise de Cezelli, French war hero (b. 1558)
    • Ferenc Forgách, Archbishop of Esztergom, Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1560)
  • October 18 – Cherubino Alberti, Italian engraver and painter (b. 1553)
  • October 31 – Marcantonio Memmo, Doge of Venice (b. 1536)
  • November 6 – Sir Richard Musgrave, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1585)
  • November 14 – John Leveson, English politician (b. 1555)
  • November 15 – Anne Turner, English murderer (b. 1576)
  • November 20 – Gervase Helwys, English murderer (b. 1561)
  • November 24 – Sethus Calvisius, German calendar reformer (b. 1556)
  • November 28 – William Howard, 3rd Baron Howard of Effingham, English politician and Baron (b. 1577)
  • November 29 – George Albert II, Margrave of Brandenburg (b. 1591)
  • November – Edward Wright, English mathematician and cartographer (b. 1561)
  • December 7 – Gerard Reynst, Dutch merchant (b. c. 1558)
  • December 26 – August of Saxony, German prince (b. 1589)

1616

Charles de Ligne
William Shakespeare
Miguel de Cervantes
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Jacob Le Maire
  • January 5 – Simeon Bekbulatovich, khan of the Qasim Tatars, Grand Duke of Muscovy and Tver
  • January 6 – Philip Henslowe, English theatre manager (b. 1550)
  • January 18 – Charles de Ligne, 2nd Prince of Arenberg, Dutch noble (b. 1550)
  • February 12 – Anna of Nassau-Dillenburg, Countess consort of Nassau-Weilburg (b. 1541)
  • February 13 – Anders Sørensen Vedel, Danish priest and historian (b. 1542)
  • February 15 – George Carey, English politician (b. 1541)
  • February 18 – Archduke Maximilian Ernest of Austria, Austrian archduke (b. 1583)
  • February 28
    • Mikołaj Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwiłł, Polish-Lithuanian noble (szlachcic) (b. 1549)
    • Vincent Skinner, English Member of Parliament (b. 1543)
  • March 3 – Matthias de l'Obel, physician of James I of England (b. 1538)
  • March 6 – Francis Beaumont, dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre (b. 1584)[133]
  • March 8
    • Maria Anna of Bavaria, daughter of William V, Duke of Bavaria and Renata von Lothringen (b. 1574)
    • Giulio Cesare Casseri, Italian anatomist (b. 1552)
  • March 19 – Johannes Fabricius, Frisian/German astronomer (b. 1587)
  • March 21 – Giacomo Castelvetro, Italian writer (b. 1546)
  • March 27 – George Wylde I, English lawyer and politician (b. 1550)
  • March 31 – John Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (b. 1575)
  • April 19 – Juan de Silva, Spanish military commander and governor of the Philippines
  • April 22 – Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (b. 1547)
  • April 23
  • April 27 – Francesco Barbaro, Italian diplomat (b. 1546)
  • May 4 – Magdalene of Brandenburg, Landgravine consort of Hesse-Darmstadt (1598–1616) (b. 1582)
  • May 8 – Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury, English politician and earl (b. 1552)
  • May 24 – Margaret Clifford, Countess of Cumberland, British noble (b. 1560)
  • May 30 – Thomas Parry, English politician (b. 1541)
  • June 1 – Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shōgun (b. 1543)
  • June 4 – Adam Hieronim Sieniawski, Polish–Lithuanian noble (b. c. 1576)
  • June 9 – Cornelis Schuyt, Dutch organist and composer (b. 1557)
  • June 18 – Thomas Bilson, English bishop (b. 1547)
  • June 19 – Henry Robinson, English bishop (b. 1553)
  • July 2 – Bernardino Realino, Italian Jesuit (b. 1530)
  • July 7
    • Charles Philippe de Rodoan, third bishop of Middelburg and the fourth bishop of Bruges (b. 1552)
    • Anna of Württemberg, German princess (b. 1561)
  • July 20
    • Honda Masanobu, Japanese commander and daimyō (b. 1538)
    • Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, Irish soldier (b. 1540)[41]
  • July 25 – Andreas Libavius, German physician and chemist (b. 1555)
  • July 29 – Tang Xianzu, Chinese playwright and poet (b. 1550)
  • July 31 – Roger Wilbraham, Solicitor-General for Ireland (b. 1553)
  • August 3 – Hans Meinhard von Schönberg, German military commander (b. 1582)
  • August 7
    • Scipione Gentili, Italian law professor and legal writer (b. 1563)
    • Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (b. 1548)
  • August 8
    • Cornelis Ketel, Dutch painter (b. 1548)
    • Henry Lennard, 12th Baron Dacre, English baron and politician (b. 1570)
  • August 31 – Henry Poole, English politician (b. 1541)
  • September 24
    • Henry Baynton, English Member of Parliament (b. 1571)
    • John Scott, English politician (b. 1570)
  • September 29 – Henry Clinton, 2nd Earl of Lincoln, English politician (b. 1539)
  • Shimozuma Chūkō, Japanese monk of the Hongan-ji (b. 1551)
  • Meir Lublin, Polish rabbi (b. 1558)
  • Hendrick Christiaensen, Dutch explorer
  • Krzysztof Klabon, Polish Renaissance composer (b. 1550)
  • Alexander Whitaker, Virginia Colony religious leader (b. 1585)

1617

John Napier
Dorothea Maria of Anhalt
Emperor Go-Yozei
Saint Francisco Suarez
Charlotte de Sauve
Alphonsus Rodriguez
  • January 1 – Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch painter (b. 1558)
  • January 6 – Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg from 1561 to 1592 as the consort of Duke William (b. 1546)
  • January 16 – Wolf Dietrich Raitenau, Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg (b. 1559)
  • January 17 – Faust Vrančić, Croatian inventor (b. 1551)
  • January 28 – Karl II, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels, Duke of Oels and Duke of Bernstadt (b. 1545)
  • February 3 – Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist from the Republic of Venice (b. 1553)
  • February 8 – Edward Talbot, 8th Earl of Shrewsbury, English politician and earl (b. 1561)
  • February 11 – Giovanni Antonio Magini, Italian mathematician, cartographer and astronomer (b. 1555)
  • February 16 – Kaspar Ulenberg, German theologian (b. 1549)
  • March 1 – Edward Hoby, English politician (b. 1560)
  • March 20 – François d'Aguilon, Belgian Jesuit mathematician (b. 1567)
  • March 21 – Pocahontas, Algonquian (Native American) princess (b. c. 1595)[135]
  • March 27 – George II, Duke of Pomerania, non-reigning Duke of Pomerania (b. 1582)
  • April 1 – Ralph Eure, 3rd Baron Eure, English politician (b. 1558)
  • April 4 – John Napier, Scottish mathematician (b. 1550)[136]
  • April 5 – Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (b. 1555)
  • May 3 – Aleixo de Menezes, Portuguese Catholic archbishop (b. 1559)
  • May 7
    • David Fabricius, Frisian astronomer (b. 1564)
    • Jacques Auguste de Thou, French historian (b. 1553)
  • May 11 – Jean Chapeauville, Belgian theologian and historian (b. 1551)
  • May 16 – Nicolas de Montmorency (b. 1556)
  • May 29 – Roger Owen, English politician (b. 1573)
  • June 20 – Raja Wodeyar I, King of Mysore (b. 1552)
  • June 27 – Jerome Xavier, Spanish Jesuit missionary (b. 1549)
  • July 8 – Leonora Dori, French noble (b. 1571)
  • July 9 – John Herbert, Welsh politician (b. 1550)
  • July 13 – Adam Wenceslaus, Duke of Cieszyn, Duke of Teschen (b. 1574)
  • July 18 – Dorothea Maria of Anhalt (b. 1570)
  • August 7 – Otto, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Hereditary Prince of Hesse-Kassel, Administrator of Hersfeld Abbey (b. 1594)
  • August 8 – Frederick IV of Fürstenberg, German noble (b. 1563)
  • August 13 – Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman (b. 1540)
  • August 24 – Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (b. 1586)
  • August 28 – William Willoughby, 3rd Baron Willoughby of Parham, English baron (b. 1584)
  • September 9 – Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn, German bishop (b. 1545)
  • September 25
    • Emperor Go-Yōzei of Japan (b. 1571)
    • Francisco Suárez, Spanish Jesuit priest (b. 1548)
  • September 27 – John Ernest of Nassau-Siegen, German general (b. 1582)
  • September 30 – Charlotte de Sauve, French courtesan (b. 1551)
  • Tarquinia Molza, Italian singer (b. 1542)

1618

Philip II, Duke of Pomerania
Marie of the Incarnation (Carmelite)
Nicolò Rusca
Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia
Jakob Rem
  • January 6 – Margherita Gonzaga, Duchess of Ferrara (b. 1564)
  • January 19 – Jacobus Zaffius, Dutch Catholic provost (b. 1535)
  • January 24 – Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English peer and traitor (b. 1564)
  • January 29 – John Dackombe, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1570)
  • February 3 – Philip II, Duke of Pomerania-Stettin (b. 1573)
  • February 10 – Feliks Kryski, Grand Chancellor of Poland (b. 1562)
  • February 14 – Paolo Emilio Sfondrati, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1560)
  • February 20 – Philip William, Prince of Orange, eldest son of William the Silent, by his first wife Anna van Egmont (b. 1554)
  • February 25 – Elizabeth Spencer, Baroness Hunsdon, English baroness (b. 1552)
  • February 27 – Anne Lyon, Countess of Kinghorne, Scottish countess (b. 1579)
  • March 5
    • John, Duke of Östergötland (b. 1589)
    • Countess Palatine Barbara of Zweibrücken-Neuburg and by marriage Countess of Oettingen-Oettingen (b. 1559)
  • March 14 – Nadira Banu Begum, Mughal princess (d. 1659)
  • March 16 – Giovanni Bembo, Doge of Venice (b. 1543)[137]
  • March 23 – James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn, Scottish politician (b. c. 1575)
  • March 26 – Frederick Magnus, Count of Erbach-Fürstenau (1606–1618) (b. 1575)
  • March 31 – Pedro Cornejo de Pedrosa, Spanish theologian (b. 1536)
  • April – Chief Powhatan (proper name Wahunsenacawh), Algonquin (indigenous American) leader, father of Pocahontas (b. c. 1547)
  • April 5 – Robert Barker, English politician (b. 1563)
  • April 14 – Giovanni Battista Zuccato, Italian Catholic prelate, Bishop of Nusco (1607–1614) (b. 1543)
  • April 18 – Marie of the Incarnation, Carmelite (b. 1566)
  • May 9 – Nicolò Donato, Doge of Venice (b. 1539)
  • May 24 – John George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1603–1618) (b. 1567)
  • May 31 – Sabina Catharina of East Frisia, Countess of Rietberg (1586–1618) (b. 1582)
  • June 7 – Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English Governor of Virginia (b. 1577)
  • June 21 – Kasper Hassler, German musician (b. 1562)
  • Ebba Bielke, Swedish baroness and conspirator (b. 1570)
  • Christina Rauscher, German official and critic of witchcraft persecutions (b. 1570)

1619

Lucilio Vanini
Taj Bibi Bilqis Makani
Lawrence of Brindisi
Marko Krizin
Sur Singh
Ludovico Carracci
  • April 5 – Alexander Home, 1st Earl of Home, Scottish nobleman (b. 1566)
  • April 10 – Thomas Jones, Anglican Archbishop of Dublin (b. c. 1550)
  • April 16 – Denis Calvaert, Flemish painter (b. 1540)
  • April 18 – Taj Bibi Bilqis Makani, Mughal empress (b. 1573)
  • April/May – William Larkin, English court portrait painter (b. early 1580s)
  • May – John Overall, English bishop (b. 1559)
  • May 13 – Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (b. 1547)
  • May 21 – Hieronymus Fabricius, Italian anatomist (b. 1537)
  • May 23 – Stephen Soame, Lord Mayor of London (b. 1540)
  • June 18 – Martin Fréminet, French painter (b. 1567)
  • July 2 – Francis II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (1586–1619) (b. 1547)
  • July 22 – Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian saint (b. 1559)
  • July 24 – Nabeshima Naoshige, Japanese samurai (b. 1537)
  • August 3 – Dorothy Percy, Countess of Northumberland, younger daughter of Walter Devereux (b. c. 1564)
  • August 19
    • Thomas Dale, English colonial governor
    • Jørgen Lunge, Danish politician (b. 1577)
  • August 29 – Ferdinando Taverna, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1558)
  • August 30 – Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
  • September – Hans Lippershey, Dutch lensmaker (b. 1570)
  • September 3 – John Gordon, Scottish bishop (b. 1544)
  • September 7
    • Marko Krizin, Croatian Catholic priest (martyred) (b. 1585)
    • Stephen Pongracz, Hungarian saint (b. 1584)
    • Sur Singh, ruler of Marwar (b. 1571)
  • October
    • Robert Peake the Elder, English court portrait painter (b. c. 1551)
    • Nicholas Yonge, English singer and publisher (b. c. 1560)
  • October 9 – Joseph Pardo, Italian rabbi and merchant (b. c. 1561)
  • October 14 – Samuel Daniel, English poet (b. 1562)
  • October 18 – Petrus Gudelinus, Belgian jurist (b. 1550)
  • October 19 – Fujiwara Seika, Japanese philosopher (b. 1561)
  • November 13 – Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (b. 1555)
  • December 23 – John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg from the House of Hohenzollern (b. 1572)
  • December 29
    • Antoine Arnauld, French lawyer (b. 1560)
    • Prince Jeongwon, Korean prince (b. 1580)
  • Bagrat VII of Kartli (b. 1569)
  • François d'Amboise, French jurist and writer (b. 1550)
  • Thomas Stephens, English Jesuit missionary in Portuguese India (b. c. 1549)
  • Caterina Vitale, Maltese pharmacist (b. 1566)

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