1619

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
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  • 1621
  • 1622
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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

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.

Events[]

January–June[]

  • January 12 – James I of England's Banqueting House, Whitehall in London is destroyed by fire.[1] Inigo Jones is commissioned to design a replacement.
  • February 14 – Earthquake flattens the town of Trujillo, Peru, killing hundreds in the town and causing landslides in the surrounding countryside killing hundreds more.[2]
  • March 20 – Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor dies, leaving the Holy Roman Empire without an official leader, to deal with the Bohemian Revolt.
  • April – Battle of Sarhu: Manchu leader Nurhaci is victorious over the Ming forces.[3]
  • May 8 – The Synod of Dort has its final meeting.
  • May 13 – Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague, after having been convicted of treason.
  • May 30 – Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Governor General of the Dutch East Indies, conquers Jayakarta, and renames it Batavia.
  • June 10 – Thirty Years' War – Battle of Sablat: Protestant forces are defeated.[4]
  • June 21 – Dulwich College founded by Edward Alleyn, in Dulwich, London.[5]

July–December[]

  • 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]
  • August – A group "twenty and odd" enslaved Africans onboard the privateer ship White Lion are landed (the first in the state of Virginia) at Point Comfort in colonial Virginia.[7][8]
  • August 5 – Thirty Years' War: Battle of Věstonice – Bohemian forces defeat the Austrians.
  • August 10 – The Treaty of Angoulême ends the civil war between Louis XIII of France and his mother, Marie de' Medici.
  • August 26 – Frederick V of the Palatinate is elected King of Bohemia by the states of the Bohemian Confederacy.
  • August 28 – Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria and King of Bohemia, is elected Holy Roman Emperor unanimously by the prince-electors.
  • October 8 – Thirty Years' War – The Treaty of Munich is signed by Ferdinand II and Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria.[9]
  • November 16 – William Parker School, Hastings, England, is founded by the will of Reverend William Parker.
  • November 23 – Thirty Years' War: Battle of Humenné – Polish Lisowczycy troops assist the Holy Roman Emperor by defeating a Transylvanian force, forcing Gabor Bethlen to raise his siege of Vienna.
  • December 4 – Thirty-eight colonists from England disembark in Berkeley Hundred, Virginia from the Margaret of Bristol and give thanks to God (considered by some to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas).

Date unknown[]

Births[]

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

January–March[]

  • 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
  • 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)

April–June[]

  • 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
  • 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)

July–September[]

October–December[]

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

January–March[]

April–June[]

  • 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)

July–September[]

  • 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
  • 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)

October–December[]

Date unknown[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p. 29
  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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