1619

1619 (MDCXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1619th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 619th year of the 2nd millennium, the 19th year of the 17th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1610s decade. As of the start of 1619, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1619 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1619
MDCXIX
Ab urbe condita2372
Armenian calendar1068
ԹՎ ՌԿԸ
Assyrian calendar6369
Balinese saka calendar1540–1541
Bengali calendar1026
Berber calendar2569
English Regnal year16 Ja. 1  17 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar2163
Burmese calendar981
Byzantine calendar7127–7128
Chinese calendar戊午年 (Earth Horse)
4315 or 4255
     to 
己未年 (Earth Goat)
4316 or 4256
Coptic calendar1335–1336
Discordian calendar2785
Ethiopian calendar1611–1612
Hebrew calendar5379–5380
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1675–1676
 - Shaka Samvat1540–1541
 - Kali Yuga4719–4720
Holocene calendar11619
Igbo calendar619–620
Iranian calendar997–998
Islamic calendar1028–1029
Japanese calendarGenna 5
(元和5年)
Javanese calendar1539–1540
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3952
Minguo calendar293 before ROC
民前293年
Nanakshahi calendar151
Thai solar calendar2161–2162
Tibetan calendar阳土马年
(male Earth-Horse)
1745 or 1364 or 592
     to 
阴土羊年
(female Earth-Goat)
1746 or 1365 or 593
May 13: Grand pensionary Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague

Events

JanuaryJune

JulyDecember

  • 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.[6]

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

Charles Le Brun
Peter Mews
Anna Sophia I, Abbess of Quedlinburg
Carel van Savoyen
Rijcklof van Goens
Anne Geneviève de Bourbon

JanuaryMarch

  • 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)[10]
  • 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)[11]
  • 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)

AprilJune

  • 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)

JulySeptember

  • 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)

OctoberDecember

Date unknown

  • 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

Lucilio Vanini
Taj Bibi Bilqis Makani
Lawrence of Brindisi
Marko Krizin
Sur Singh
Ludovico Carracci

JanuaryMarch

AprilJune

  • 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)

JulySeptember

  • 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)

OctoberDecember

  • 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)

Date unknown

  • 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)

References

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  2. Robert L. Kovach; Robert Louis Kovach (2004). Early Earthquakes of the Americas. Cambridge University Press.
  3. Oriens extremus: Zeitschrift für Sprache, Kunst und Kultur de Länder des Fernen Ostens. O. Harrassowitz. 1981. p. 32.
  4. Richard Ernest Dupuy; Trevor Nevitt Dupuy (1986). The Encyclopedia of Military History from 3500 B.C. to the Present. Harper & Row. p. 534. ISBN 978-0-06-181235-4.
  5. Schools inquiry commission (1868). Report of the commissioners. p. 109.
  6. "The First Legislative Assembly, Historic Jamestowne". Colonial National Historical Park. U.S. National Park Service. July 22, 2019. Retrieved August 3, 2019.
  7. Brown, DeNeen L (August 24, 2018). "Slavery's bitter roots: In 1619, '20 And odd Negroes' arrived in Virginia". The Washington Post. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
  8. "The First Africans". Jamestowne Rediscovery. Historic Jamestowne. Retrieved August 18, 2019.
  9. Kenneth Meyer Setton (1991). Venice, Austria, and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century. American Philosophical Society. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-87169-192-7.
  10. Joanna Banham (May 1997). Encyclopedia of Interior Design. Routledge. p. 730. ISBN 978-1-136-78758-4.
  11. Faith K. Pizor; T. Allan Comp (1971). The Man in the Moone: And Other Lunar Fantasies. Praeger. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-283-97815-9.
  12. Jennifer Woodward (1997). The Theatre of Death: The Ritual Management of Royal Funerals in Renaissance England, 1570-1625. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. p. 166. ISBN 978-0-85115-704-7.
  13. Irwin Smith (1964). Shakespeare's Blackfriars Playhouse: Its History and Its Design. New York University Press. p. 257. ISBN 978-0-8147-0483-7.
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