1625

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
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  • 1623
  • 1624
  • 1625
  • 1626
  • 1627
  • 1628
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1625 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1625
MDCXXV
Ab urbe condita2378
Armenian calendar1074
ԹՎ ՌՀԴ
Assyrian calendar6375
Balinese saka calendar1546–1547
Bengali calendar1032
Berber calendar2575
English Regnal year22 Ja. 1 – 1 Cha. 1
Buddhist calendar2169
Burmese calendar987
Byzantine calendar7133–7134
Chinese calendar甲子年 (Wood Rat)
4321 or 4261
    — to —
乙丑年 (Wood Ox)
4322 or 4262
Coptic calendar1341–1342
Discordian calendar2791
Ethiopian calendar1617–1618
Hebrew calendar5385–5386
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1681–1682
 - Shaka Samvat1546–1547
 - Kali Yuga4725–4726
Holocene calendar11625
Igbo calendar625–626
Iranian calendar1003–1004
Islamic calendar1034–1035
Japanese calendarKan'ei 2
(寛永２年)
Javanese calendar1546–1547
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3958
Minguo calendar287 before ROC
民前287年
Nanakshahi calendar157
Thai solar calendar2167–2168
Tibetan calendar阳木鼠年
(male Wood-Rat)
1751 or 1370 or 598
    — to —
阴木牛年
(female Wood-Ox)
1752 or 1371 or 599
June 2: The surrender of Breda to Spanish troops after an eleven-month siege.

1625 (MDCXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1625th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 625th year of the 2nd millennium, the 25th year of the 17th century, and the 6th year of the 1620s decade. As of the start of 1625, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events[]

September 15: The Capture of Ré island.

January–June[]

  • January 17 – Led by the Duke of Soubise, the Huguenots launch a second rebellion against King Louis XIII, with a surprise naval assault on a French fleet being prepared in Blavet.
  • February – Huguenot forces under the Duke of Soubise capture the Island of Ré.
  • March 21 – James Ussher is appointed Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland) and Primate of All Ireland.
  • March 28–April 24 – First Savoine War – Relief of Genoa: The Spanish fleet aids the Republic of Genoa, by overcoming the Franco-Savoyard occupation of the city of Genoa.
  • March 25 – Battle of Martqopi: The Safavids are defeated in Georgia.
  • March 27 – Charles Stuart (Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland) succeeds to the throne on the death of his father, King James I of England.
  • April 4 – Frederick Henry of Nassau marries Amalia, Countess von Solms-Braunfels.
  • April 7 – Albrecht von Wallenstein is appointed German supreme commander.
  • April 23 – Stadtholder Maurice of Nassau of the Dutch Republic dies, and is succeeded by his younger brother, Frederick Henry.
  • May 1 – A Portuguese-Spanish expedition recaptures Salvador, Bahia (Bahia) from the Dutch.
  • May 15–16 – Rebellious farmers are hanged in Vocklamarkt, Upper Austria.
  • June 2 – Prince Frederick Henry is sworn in as the stadtholder of Holland and Zeeland.
  • June 5 – Eighty Years' War: Spanish troops under Ambrogio Spinola conquer Breda, after a yearlong siege.
  • June 13 – King Charles I of England marries Catholic princess Henrietta Maria of France and Navarre, at Canterbury.[1]
  • June 18 – The English Parliament refuses to vote Charles I the right to collect customs duties for his entire reign, restricting him to one year instead.

July–December[]

  • July – The Barbary pirates first attack south-western England.[2] In August they enslave about 60 people from Mount's Bay in Cornwall.[3]
  • August 6 – Ernest Casimir of Nassau-Dietz is appointed as stadtholder of Groningen.
  • August 16 – Ernest Casimir of Nassau-Dietz is appointed stadtholder of Drenthe.
  • September 8 – The Treaty of Southampton makes an alliance between England and the Dutch Republic, against Spain.[4]
  • September 13 – A total of 16 rabbis (including Isaiah Horowitz) are imprisoned in Jerusalem.
  • September 15 – After several skirmishes in the preceding days, troops under the Marquis of Toiras successfully recapture the island of Ré, forcing the Duke of Soubise to flee to England, and ending the second Huguenot rebellion.
  • September 24 – A Dutch fleet attacks San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  • October 25 – A Dutch fleet attacks the Portuguese garrison at Elmina castle at modern-day Elmina, Ghana, but is defeated with heavy casualties. This defeat, along with the defeats at Bahia and Puerto Rico, causes a five-year-long lull in Dutch attacks on Spanish and Portuguese colonies.
  • November 1–7 – Cádiz Expedition: English forces commanded by Admiral George Villiers (which set out from Plymouth on October 8) are decisively defeated by the Spanish at Cádiz.
  • December 9 – Thirty Years' War: The Netherlands and England sign the Treaty of The Hague, a military peace treaty for providing economical aid to King Christian IV of Denmark, during his military campaigns in Germany.

Date unknown[]

  • The Dutch settle Manhattan, founding the town of New Amsterdam. The town will transform into a piece of New York City.[5]
  • The capital of Madagascar, Antananarivo, is founded by King Andrianjaka.
  • In England, a very high tide occurs, the highest ever known in the Thames, and the sea walls in Kent, Essex, and Lincolnshire are overthrown, thus great desolation is caused to the lands near the sea.[6]
  • An English colony is established in Barbados.[7]
  • The first members of the Society of Jesus move to Quebec, Canada.
  • Approximate date – Shyaam a-Mbul begins to unify the Kuba Kingdom in Central Africa.

Births[]

Carlo Maratta
Giovanni Domenico Cassini
Oliver Plunkett

January–March[]

  • January 29 – Thieleman J. van Braght, Dutch Anabaptist author (d. 1664)
  • February 1 – Leopold Louis, Count Palatine of Veldenz, German noble (d. 1694)
  • February 9 – Jobst Herman, Count of Lippe, Sternberg and Schwalenberg (d. 1678)
  • February 14 – Countess Palatine Maria Eufrosyne of Zweibrücken, Swedish princess (d. 1687)
  • February 18 – Giovanni Giuseppe Cosattini, Italian painter (d. 1699)
  • February 21 – Joan Huydecoper II, Dutch mayor (d. 1704)
  • March 1 – William Gregory, English politician and judge (d. 1696)
  • March 14 – Daniel Gittard, French architect (d. 1686)
  • March 25
    • Ann, Lady Fanshawe, English memoirist (d. 1680)
    • John Collins, English mathematician (d. 1683)

April–June[]

July–September[]

October–December[]

Date unknown[]

Deaths[]

Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Chichester died 19 February
Andres de Soto died 5 April
Adriaan van den Spiegel died 7 April
Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouche died 18 August
Duchess Anna of Prussia died 30 August
Sofonisba Anguissola died 16 November

January–March[]

  • January/February – Robert Cushman, English Plymouth Colony settler (b. 1577)[10]
  • January 5 – Simon Marius, German astronomer (b. 1573)
  • January 7 – Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer (b. c. 1560)
  • January 17 – Maria Dolgorukova, first spouse of Tsar Michael I of Russia (b. c. 1601)
  • January 18 – John Pakington, English noble (b. 1549)
  • January 23 – Count John III of Rietberg (b. 1566)
  • January 27 – Adrianus Valerius, Dutch National Anthem writer (b. c. 1575)
  • January 29 – Jacob Gretser, German Jesuit writer (b. 1562)
  • February 6 – Philipp Julius, Duke of Pomerania (b. 1584)
  • February 19 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Chichester, English peer (b. 1563)
  • February 26
    • Anna Vasa of Sweden, Polish and Swedish princess (b. 1568)
    • Jeremiah of Wallachia, Romanian-born Capuchin lay brother, who spent his entire adult life serving as an infirmarian of the Order in Italy (b. 1556)
  • March 2 – James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Hamilton (b. 1589)
  • March 7
    • Johann Bayer, German lawyer and uranographer (celestial cartographer) (b. 1572)
    • Joachim Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1603–1625) (b. 1583)
  • March 26 – Giambattista Marino, Italian poet (b. 1569)
  • March 27 – King James VI of Scotland/James I of England and Ireland (b. 1566)[11]
  • March 28 or March 29 – Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Spanish historian (b. 1549)

April–June[]

July–September[]

  • July 1 – Teimuraz I, Prince of Mukhrani, Georgian prince (b. 1572)
  • July 19 – Samuel Besler, Polish composer (b. 1574)
  • July 26 – Johannes Piscator, German theologian (b. 1546)
  • August 3 – Ludovico Bertonio, Italian missionary (b. 1552)
  • August 14 – Hans Rottenhammer, German artist (b. 1564)
  • August 15 – Mary Cholmondeley, English medieval lady, litigant over her inheritance (b. 1563)
  • August 18 – Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouche, English diplomat (b. 1556)
  • August 19 – Enno III, Count of East Frisia, Count of Ostfriesland (1599-1625) from the Cirksena Family (b. 1563)
  • August 29 – John Fletcher, English writer (b. 1579)
  • August 30 – Duchess Anna of Prussia, daughter of Albert Frederick (b. 1576)
  • September 4 – Thomas Smythe, English diplomat (b. 1558)
  • September 6 – Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian (b. 1579)
  • September 11 – Charles Montagu, English politician (b. 1564)
  • September 14
    • Pieter Isaacsz, Dutch painter (b. 1569)
    • Edward Mayhew, English priest (b. 1569)
  • September 19 – Eitel Frederick von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, German Catholic cardinal (b. 1582)
  • September 20 – Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (b. 1555)
  • September 26 – Edward Stafford, 4th Baron Stafford of England (b. 1572)

October–December[]

  • October 1 – César Oudin, French translator (b. 1560)
  • October 6 – Anthony Irby, English politician (b. 1547)
  • October 22 – Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (b. 1561)
  • October 24
    • Duke Friedrich of Saxe-Altenburg, Third son of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm I of Saxe-Weimar (b. 1599)
    • Abraham Scultetus, German theologian (b. 1566)
  • October 25 – Hans Michael Elias von Obentraut, Palatinate cavalry general in the Thirty Years' War (b. 1574)
  • November 3 – Adam Gumpelzhaimer, German composer (b. 1559)
  • November 16 – Sofonisba Anguissola, Italian painter (b. c. 1532)
  • November 19 – Johann Reinhard I, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (b. 1569)
  • December 8 – Christina of Holstein-Gottorp, queen consort of King Charles IX of Sweden (b. 1573)
  • December 9 – Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (b. 1547)
  • December 16 – Elizabeth of Hesse-Kassel, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Gütsrow (b. 1596)
  • December 27 – Charles Baillie, Flemish-born Scottish papal agent (b. 1542)

Date unknown[]

  • Willem Schouten Dutch navigator (died at sea) (b. c. 1567)
  • Juan de las Roelas, Spanish artist (b. 1558)

References[]

  1. ^ David Williamson (1986). Debrett's Kings and Queens of Britain. Salem House. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-88162-213-3.
  2. ^ Milton, Giles (2005). White Gold. Hodder & Stoughton.
  3. ^ Matar, Nabil (1998). Islam in Britain, 1558-1685. Cambridge University Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-521-62233-2.
  4. ^ Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1625". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
  5. ^ "The Battery Highlights : New York City Gov Parks". nycgovparks.org. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
  6. ^ Wheeler, M.Inst.C.E, William Henry (1896). A History of the Fens of South Lincolnshire, being a description of the rivers Witham and Welland and their estuary, and an account of the Reclamation, Drainage, and Enclosure of the fens adjacent thereto. (2nd ed.). J.M. Newcombe (Boston), Simpkin, Marshall & Co. (London). p. 31. doi:10.1680/ahotfosl2e.50358.
  7. ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 248–253. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  8. ^ David A. Collins (1966). Thomas Corneille: Protean Dramatist. Mouton. p. 14. ISBN 978-3-11-205657-8.
  9. ^ Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen; Rudolf E. O. Ekkart; Quentin Buvelot (1995). Dutch portraits from the seventeenth century. Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen. p. 22. ISBN 978-90-6918-140-0.
  10. ^ Henry Wyles Cushman (1855). A Historical and Biographical Genealogy of the Cushmans: The Descendants of Robert Cushman, the Puritan, from the Year 1617 to 1855. Little, Brown. p. 77.
  11. ^ "James I and VI". BBC History. Retrieved April 2, 2018.
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