1614

1614 (MDCXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1614th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 614th year of the 2nd millennium, the 14th year of the 17th century, and the 5th year of the 1610s decade. As of the start of 1614, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1614 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1614
MDCXIV
Ab urbe condita2367
Armenian calendar1063
ԹՎ ՌԿԳ
Assyrian calendar6364
Balinese saka calendar1535–1536
Bengali calendar1021
Berber calendar2564
English Regnal year11 Ja. 1  12 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar2158
Burmese calendar976
Byzantine calendar7122–7123
Chinese calendar癸丑年 (Water Ox)
4310 or 4250
     to 
甲寅年 (Wood Tiger)
4311 or 4251
Coptic calendar1330–1331
Discordian calendar2780
Ethiopian calendar1606–1607
Hebrew calendar5374–5375
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1670–1671
 - Shaka Samvat1535–1536
 - Kali Yuga4714–4715
Holocene calendar11614
Igbo calendar614–615
Iranian calendar992–993
Islamic calendar1022–1023
Japanese calendarKeichō 19
(慶長19年)
Javanese calendar1534–1535
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3947
Minguo calendar298 before ROC
民前298年
Nanakshahi calendar146
Thai solar calendar2156–2157
Tibetan calendar阴水牛年
(female Water-Ox)
1740 or 1359 or 587
     to 
阳木虎年
(male Wood-Tiger)
1741 or 1360 or 588
April 5: Pocahontas marries John Rolfe.

Events

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,[3] 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[4] 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

Births

Christopher Merret
Jahanara Begum
Martino Martini

January–March

  • 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)[5]
  • 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–June

  • 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)

July–September

  • July 10 – Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (d. 1686)
  • July 23 – Bonaventura Peeters the Elder, Flemish marine painter (d. 1652)
  • August 3 – Juan de Arellano, Spanish artist (d. 1676)
  • August 13 – Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, administrator of the archbishopric of Magdeburg (d. 1680)
  • September 7 – Gustaf Otto Stenbock, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1685)
  • September 11 – Philipp Buchner, German composer (d. 1669)
  • September 12 – Robert Packer, English politician (d. 1682)
  • September 20 – Martino Martini, Italian missionary, cartographer and historian (d. 1661)
  • September 25 – Giles Hungerford, English politician (d. 1685)
  • September 27 – Daniel Hallé, French painter (d. 1675)
  • September 28 – Juan Hidalgo de Polanco, Spanish composer (d. 1685)

October–December

Date unknown

  • Franciscus Sylvius, German scientist (d. 1672)
  • Song Wan, Qing Dyansty poet and politician

Deaths

Maeda Toshinaga
Johannes Magirus the elder
Man Singh I
Camillus de Lellis

January–March

April–June

  • April 2 – Henri I de Montmorency, Marshal of France (b. 1534)
  • April 7El Greco, or Domênikos Theotokópoulos (Greek: Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος), Cretian painter, sculptor and architect (b. 1541)[6]
  • April 28 – John Egerton, English politician (b. 1551)
  • May 3 – Sasbout Vosmeer, Dutch Apostolic Vicar (b. 1548)
  • June 13 – Sengoku Hidehisa, Japanese daimyō (b. 1552)
  • June 15 – Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, important English aristocrat and courtier (b. 1540)
  • June 17 – William Bathe, Irish Jesuit priest (b. 1564)
  • June 27 – Maeda Toshinaga, Japanese daimyō (b. 1562)

July–September

  • 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)[7]
  • August 21Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian noblewoman and purported serial killer (b. 1560)[8]
  • 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–December

  • 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)

Date unknown

  • Bartholomäus Scultetus, mayor of Görlitz (b. 1540)
  • Ebba Stenbock, politically active Swedish-Finnish noblewoman

References

  1. Jos. M. M. Hermans; Marc Nelissen (2005). Charters of Foundation and Early Documents of the Universities of the Coimbra Group. Leuven University Press. p. 54. ISBN 978-90-5867-474-6.
  2. Kenneth Meyer Setton (1991). Venice, Austria, and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century. American Philosophical Society. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-87169-192-7.
  3. Squanto
  4. Pilgrim Fathers
  5. "GOTT, Samuel (1614-71), of Battle, Suss. | History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved May 21, 2022.
  6. José Gudiol; El Greco (1973). Domenikos Theotokopoulos, El Greco, 1541-1614. Viking Press. pp. 294–5. ISBN 978-0-670-29083-3.
  7. Delia Gaze; Maja Mihajlovic; Leanda Shrimpton (1997). Dictionary of Women Artists: Introductory surveys ; Artists, A-I. Taylor & Francis. p. 534. ISBN 978-1-884964-21-3.
  8. Raymond T. McNally (1983). Dracula was a Woman: In Search of the Blood Countess of Transylvania. McGraw-Hill. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-07-045671-6.
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