1614

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
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Years:
  • 1611
  • 1612
  • 1613
  • 1614
  • 1615
  • 1616
  • 1617
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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.

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.

Events[]

December 4: Start of the Siege of Osaka

January–June[]

  • February – King James I of England condemns duels, in his proclamation Against Private Challenges and Combats.
  • April 5 – Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe in Jamestown, Virginia.

July–December[]

  • July 6 – Raid of Żejtun: Ottoman forces make a final attempt to conquer the island of Malta, but are beaten back by the Knights Hospitaller.
  • August 23 – The University of Groningen is established in the Dutch Republic.[1]
  • September 1 – In England, Sir Julius Caesar becomes Master of the Rolls.
  • October 11 – Adriaen Block and a group of Amsterdam merchants petition the States General of the Northern Netherlands for exclusive trading rights, in the area he explored and named "New Netherland".
  • November 12 – The Treaty of Xanten ends the War of the Jülich Succession.[2]
  • November 19 – Hostilities resulting from an attempt by Toyotomi Hideyori to restore Osaka Castle begin. Tokugawa Ieyasu, father of the shōgun, is outraged at this act, and leads three thousand men across the Kizu River, destroying the fort there.
  • December 4 – The Siege of Osaka begins.

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 Rosicrucian Order is instituted in the Holy Roman Empire, according to Fraternitas Rosae Crucis.
  • Christianity is banned throughout Japan.
  • The Duchess of Malfi is performed at the Globe theatre


Births[]

Christopher Merret
Jahanara Begum
Martino Martini

January–March[]

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
  • 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[]

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 7 – El Greco, or Domênikos Theotokópoulos (Greek: Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος), Cretian painter, sculptor and architect (b. 1541)[5]
  • 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[]

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[]

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. ^ José Gudiol; El Greco (1973). Domenikos Theotokopoulos, El Greco, 1541-1614. Viking Press. pp. 294–5. ISBN 978-0-670-29083-3.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ 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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