1624

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  • 1622
  • 1623
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  • 1625
  • 1626
  • 1627
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1624 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1624
MDCXXIV
Ab urbe condita2377
Armenian calendar1073
ԹՎ ՌՀԳ
Assyrian calendar6374
Balinese saka calendar1545–1546
Bengali calendar1031
Berber calendar2574
English Regnal year21 Ja. 1 – 22 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar2168
Burmese calendar986
Byzantine calendar7132–7133
Chinese calendar癸亥年 (Water Pig)
4320 or 4260
    — to —
甲子年 (Wood Rat)
4321 or 4261
Coptic calendar1340–1341
Discordian calendar2790
Ethiopian calendar1616–1617
Hebrew calendar5384–5385
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1680–1681
 - Shaka Samvat1545–1546
 - Kali Yuga4724–4725
Holocene calendar11624
Igbo calendar624–625
Iranian calendar1002–1003
Islamic calendar1033–1034
Japanese calendarGenna 10 / Kan'ei 1
(寛永元年)
Javanese calendar1545–1546
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3957
Minguo calendar288 before ROC
民前288年
Nanakshahi calendar156
Thai solar calendar2166–2167
Tibetan calendar阴水猪年
(female Water-Pig)
1750 or 1369 or 597
    — to —
阳木鼠年
(male Wood-Rat)
1751 or 1370 or 598
May 8: Capture of Bahia

1624 (MDCXXIV) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1624th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 624th year of the 2nd millennium, the 24th year of the 17th century, and the 5th year of the 1620s decade. As of the start of 1624, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events[]

January–June[]

  • January 14 – After 90 years of Ottoman occupation, the Safavid Empire recaptures Baghdad.
  • January 24 – Afonso Mendes, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa.
  • April 15 – The University of Saint Francis Xavier is founded in Bolivia.
  • April 29 – Louis XIII of France appoints Cardinal Richelieu to the Conseil du Roi (Royal Council).
  • May 8 – Capture of Bahia: A Dutch West India Company fleet captures the Brazilian city of Salvador, Bahia from the Portuguese Empire (at this time in the Iberian Union).
  • May 24
    • The city of Oslo, Norway, is destroyed by fire for the fourteenth time.[1] King Christian IV of Denmark–Norway decrees its rebuilding on a new site, where it will be renamed Christiania.
    • After years of unprofitable operation, Virginia's charter is revoked, and it becomes a royal colony.
  • May 25 – The Scottish city of Dunfermline is destroyed by fire, but The Abbey, The Palace, the Abbot House and many other buildings survive.
  • June – The first Dutch settlers arrive in New Netherland; they disembark at Governors Island.
  • June 10 – Treaty of Compiègne is signed between the Kingdom of France and the Dutch Republic.[2]

July–December[]

  • July or August – Portuguese Jesuit priest António de Andrade becomes the first European to enter Tibet.
  • August
    • The Siege of Breda begins, and will continue for 10 months.
    • Chinese admiral Yu Zigao forces the Dutch East India Company to withdraw from their post at Penghu, to Fort Zeelandia (Taiwan).
  • August 5–14 – The King's Men perform Thomas Middleton's satire A Game at Chess at the Globe Theatre, London, until it is suppressed in view of its allusions to the Spanish Match.[3]
  • August 13 – Cardinal Richelieu is appointed by Louis XIII of France to be his chief minister, having intrigued against Charles de La Vieuville, Superintendent of Finances, arrested for corruption the previous day.
  • October 3 – A combined squadron of fifteen Neapolitan (Spain), Tuscan, and Papal galleys defeat a squadron of six Algerian ships on the island of San Pietro, near Sardinia. (details)
  • December 24 – Denmark's first postal service is launched by order of King Christian IV.

Date unknown[]

  • The Palace of Versailles is first built by Louis XIII, as a hunting lodge.
  • The Japanese shōgun expels the Spanish from the land, and severs trade with the Philippines.
  • Henry Briggs publishes Arithmetica Logarithmica.[4]
  • Jakob Bartsch first publishes a chart, showing the constellation Camelopardalis around the North Star.
  • The French Parlement passes a decree forbidding criticism of Aristotle, on pain of death.[5]
  • Queen Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba starts to rule.
  • The Latymer School and Latymer Upper School in London are founded, by the bequest of Edward Latymer.
  • Frans Hals produces the painting later known as the Laughing Cavalier.[6]
  • The German-language Luther Bible is publicly burned, by order of the Pope.

Births[]

Guarino Guarini
Pierre Lambert de la Motte
Lambert Doomer
Thomas Sydenham
Murad Bakhsh
Barent Fabritius

January–March[]

April–June[]

July–September[]

October–December[]

Date unknown[]

  • Torii Tadaharu, Japanese nobleman (d. 1651)
  • Louise de Prie, French royal governess (d. 1709)

Approximate date[]

  • Female Greenland shark (still alive in 21st century).[8][9][10]

Deaths[]

Ketevan the Martyr
Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech
Simón de Rojas
Gaspard Bauhin
John Kendrick

January–March[]

April–June[]

July–September[]

October–December[]

Date unknown[]

  • Francesco Andreini, Italian actor (b. c. 1548)

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) p29
  2. ^ Richard Bonney (1981). The King's Debts: Finance and Politics in France 1589-1661. Clarendon Press. p. 122. ISBN 978-0-19-822563-8.
  3. ^ Trevor Howard Howard-Hill (1995). Middleton's "Vulgar Pasquin": Essays on A Game at Chess. University of Delaware Press. p. 156. ISBN 978-0-87413-534-3.
  4. ^ Professor of History Mordechai Feingold; Mordechai Feingold (February 9, 1984). The Mathematician's Apprenticeship: Science, Universities and Society in England 1560-1640. CUP Archive. p. 141. ISBN 978-0-521-25133-4.
  5. ^ "Rene Descartes". Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. Retrieved October 11, 2009.
  6. ^ Wallace Collection, London.
  7. ^ Friends' Literature Committee (1971). New Appreciations of George Fox; a Tercentenary Collection of Studies. Kennikat Press. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-8046-1163-3.
  8. ^ Nielsen, J.; Hedeholm, R. B.; Heinemeier, J.; Bushnell, P. G.; Christiansen, J. S.; Olsen, J.; Ramsey, C. B.; Brill, R. W.; Simon, M.; Steffensen, K. F.; Steffensen, J. F. (August 12, 2016). "Eye lens radiocarbon reveals centuries of longevity in the Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus)". Science. 353 (6300): 702–704. doi:10.1126/science.aaf1703. hdl:2022/26597. PMID 27516602. S2CID 206647043.
  9. ^ Pennisi, Elizabeth (August 11, 2016). "Greenland shark may live 400 years, smashing longevity record". Science. Retrieved August 11, 2016.
  10. ^ Morelle, Rebecca (August 12, 2016). "400-year-old Greenland shark 'longest-living vertebrate'". BBC News. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
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