1615

1615 (MDCXV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1615th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 615th year of the 2nd millennium, the 15th year of the 17th century, and the 6th year of the 1610s decade. As of the start of 1615, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1615 by topic
Arts and science
  • Architecture
  • Art
  • Literature
  • Music
  • Science
Leaders
  • State leaders
  • Colonial governors
  • Religious leaders
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Works category
  • Works
1615 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1615
MDCXV
Ab urbe condita2368
Armenian calendar1064
ԹՎ ՌԿԴ
Assyrian calendar6365
Balinese saka calendar1536–1537
Bengali calendar1022
Berber calendar2565
English Regnal year12 Ja. 1 – 13 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar2159
Burmese calendar977
Byzantine calendar7123–7124
Chinese calendar甲寅年 (Wood Tiger)
4311 or 4251
    — to —
乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit)
4312 or 4252
Coptic calendar1331–1332
Discordian calendar2781
Ethiopian calendar1607–1608
Hebrew calendar5375–5376
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1671–1672
 - Shaka Samvat1536–1537
 - Kali Yuga4715–4716
Holocene calendar11615
Igbo calendar615–616
Iranian calendar993–994
Islamic calendar1023–1024
Japanese calendarKeichō 20 / Genna 1
(元和元年)
Javanese calendar1535–1536
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3948
Minguo calendar297 before ROC
民前297年
Nanakshahi calendar147
Thai solar calendar2157–2158
Tibetan calendar阳木虎年
(male Wood-Tiger)
1741 or 1360 or 588
    — to —
阴木兔年
(female Wood-Rabbit)
1742 or 1361 or 589
June 3: Battle of Dōmyōji

Events

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.[5]
  • 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.

Births
Govert Flinck
Pieter de Groot
Erdmann August of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
Richard Baxter

January–March
  • 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)[6]
  • 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)[7]
  • 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–June
  • 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)

July–September
  • July 1 – Samuel Hales, Connecticut settler and politician (d. 1693)
  • July 9 – Sir Thomas Sclater, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1684)
  • July 22 – Marguerite of Lorraine, princess of Lorraine, duchess of Orléans (d. 1672)
  • July 28 – Charles de Noyelle, French Jesuit Superior General (d. 1686)
  • August 13 – John Sherburne, American colonial (d. 1693)
  • August 15 – Marie de Lorraine, Duchess of Guise (d. 1688)
  • August 18 – John Sadler, British town clerk (d. 1674)
  • September 3 – Mary Bradbury, accused Salem, Massachusetts witch (d. 1700)
  • September 7 – John Birch, English politician (d. 1691)
  • September 12
    • Landgravine Sophie of Hesse-Kassel, Countess of Schaumburg-Lippe (d. 1670)
    • William Turner, British politician (d. 1693)
  • September 17 – Nicholas Pedley, English politician (d. 1685)
  • September 20 – Giambattista Spinola, Italo-Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1704)
  • September 26 – Heinrich Bach, German organist and composer (d. 1692)

October–December

Deaths
Virginia de' Medici
John Ogilvie
Cherubino Alberti
Gervase Helwys
Gerard Reynst

January–March

April–June
  • 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)

July–September

October–December
  • 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)

References
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