1615

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
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  • 1613
  • 1614
  • 1615
  • 1616
  • 1617
  • 1618
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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

esxyy 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.

Events[]

January–June[]

  • January 1 – The New Netherland Company is granted a three-year monopoly in North American trade, between the 40th and 45th parallels.
  • February – Sir Thomas Roe sets out to become the first ambassador from the court of the King of England to the Mughal Emperor Jahangir,[1][2] sailing in the Lyon under the command of captain Christopher Newport.
  • March 10 – John Ogilvie, a Jesuit priest, is hanged and drawn at Glasgow Cross in Scotland for refusing to pledge allegiance to King James VI of Scotland; he will be canonised in 1976, becoming the only post-Reformation Scottish saint.
  • April 21 – The Wignacourt Aqueduct is inaugurated in Malta.
  • May 6 – The Peace of Tyrnau is signed between Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor, and Gábor Bethlen.[3]
  • June 2 – The first Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
  • June 3 – The Eastern Army of Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Osaka Army of Toyotomi Hideyori clash during the Battle of Dōmyōji and the Battle of Tennōji.
  • June 4 – Forces under shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan, beginning a period of peace which lasts nearly 250 years. Bands of Christian samurai support Ieyasu's enemies at the Battle of Osaka.
  • June 21 – The Peace of Asti is concluded between the Spanish Empire and Savoy.[4]

July–December[]

  • September 17 – Los Banos, Laguna is founded.
  • October – Spánverjavígin: 31 Spanish Basque whalers are killed, after a conflict with the people of Iceland, in the Westfjords Peninsula.
  • November
    • The Mughals under Jahangir launch the first offensive against Kajali, a border post of the Ahom kingdom.
    • Hasekura Tsunenaga visits Pope Paul V in Rome, to request a trade treaty between Japan and Mexico.
  • December 6 – In England, John Winthrop, later governor of the future Massachusetts Bay Colony, marries his second wife (of four), Thomasine Clopton, daughter of William Clopton of Castleins, near Groton, Suffolk.

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 for the first time in China the telescope, 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[]

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[]

  • January 15 – Virginia de' Medici, Italian princess (b. 1568)
  • January 16 – Roger Fenton, English clergyman (b. 1565)
  • January 31 – Claudio Acquaviva, Italian Jesuit priest, elected (in 1581) the 5th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1543)
  • February 4 – Giambattista della Porta, Italian scholar, polymath, playwright (b. 1535)
  • February 3 or February 5 – Dom Justo Takayama, Japanese warlord (b. 1552)
  • March 4 – Hans von Aachen, German painter (b. 1552)
  • March 6 – Pieter Both, first Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1568)
  • March 10 – John Ogilvie, Scottish Catholic Jesuit martyr (b. 1579)
  • March 19 – Henry Pierrepont, English politician (b. 1546)
  • March 27 – Margaret of Valois, Queen of France (b. 1553)

April–June[]

July–September[]

October–December[]

References[]

  1. ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 243–248. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  2. ^ Strachan, Michael (2004). "Roe, Sir Thomas (1581–1644)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/23943. Retrieved October 9, 2012. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  3. ^ Sir Adolphus William Ward; Sir George Walter Prother; Sir Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (1934). The Cambridge Modern History: Planned by Lord Acton. Macmillan. p. 11.
  4. ^ Lesaffer, Randall, ed. (2004). Peace Treaties and International Law in European History: From the Late Middle Ages to World War One. Cambridge University Press. p. 39.
  5. ^ Crerar Current. 1954. p. 6.
  6. ^ Saint Vincent de Paul (1985). Correspondence, Conferences, Documents. New City Press. p. 207. ISBN 978-1-56548-085-8.
  7. ^ Ludwig Freiherr von Pastor (1940). The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages. K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company. p. 571.
  8. ^ William Orme (1831). The Life and Times of the Rev. Richard Baxter: With a Critical Examination of His Writings. Crocker & Brewster. p. 9.
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