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*[[El Greco]] (b. 1541) *[[El Greco]] (b. 1541)
*[[Brantome]] (b. 1540) *[[Brantome]] (b. 1540)
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 +{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2011}}
 +{{Year dab|1614}}
 +{{Year nav|1614}}
 +{{C17 year in topic}}
 +[[File:Baptism of Pocahontas.jpg|thumb|[[Pocahontas]] marries [[John Rolfe]].]]
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 +Year '''1614''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MDCXIV]]''') was a [[common year starting on Wednesday]] (link will display the full calendar) of the [[Gregorian calendar]] and a [[common year starting on Saturday]] of the 10-day slower [[Julian calendar]].
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 +== Events ==
 +<onlyinclude>
 +=== January&ndash;June ===
 +* [[April 5]] &ndash; [[Pocahontas]] marries English colonist [[John Rolfe]] in [[Jamestown, Virginia]].
 +
 +=== July&ndash;December ===
 +* [[August 23]] &ndash; The [[University of Groningen]] is established in the [[Dutch Republic]].
 +* [[September 1]] &ndash; In England, Sir [[Julius Caesar (judge)|Julius Caesar]] becomes [[Master of the Rolls]].
 +* [[October 11]] &ndash; [[Adriaen Block]] and a group of [[Amsterdam]] merchants petition the [[States-General of the Netherlands|States General of the Northern Netherlands]] for exclusive trading rights in the area he explored and named "[[New Netherland]]".
 +* [[November 16]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Xanten]] ends the [[War of the Jülich succession]].
 +* [[November 19]] &ndash; Start of hostilities resulting from an attempt by [[Toyotomi Hideyori]] to restore [[Osaka Castle]]. [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]], father of the [[Shogun]], is outraged at this act, and leads three thousand men across the Kizu River, destroying the fort there.
 +* [[December 4]] &ndash; The [[Siege of Osaka]] begins.
 +
 +=== Date unknown ===
 +* The [[French Estates General]] meets for the last time before the era of the [[French Revolution]]. In the interim, the [[Kingdom of France]] will be governed as an [[absolute monarchy]].
 +* [[Scottish people|Scottish]] mathematician [[John Napier]] publishes ''Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio'' (''Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithms''), outlining his discovery of [[logarithm]]s and incorporating the [[decimal mark]]. [[Astronomy|Astronomer]] [[Johannes Kepler]] soon begins to employ logarithms in his description of the [[solar system]].
 +* The [[Rosicrucian]] Order is instituted in the [[Holy Roman Empire]] according to [[Fraternitas Rosae Crucis]].
 +* Christianity banned throughout [[Edo period|Japan]]
 +</onlyinclude>
 +
 +== Births ==
 +* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[John Wilkins]], English clergyman (d. [[1672]])
 +* [[January 5]] &ndash; [[Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria]], Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (d. [[1662]])
 +* [[July 10]] &ndash; [[Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey]], English royalist statesman (d. [[1686]])
 +* [[December 16]] &ndash; [[Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg]] (d. [[1674]])
 +*''date unknown'' &ndash; [[Franciscus Sylvius]], German scientist (d. [[1672]])
 +
 +== Deaths ==
 +* [[April 7]] &ndash; [[El Greco]], or Domênikos Theotokópoulos (Greek: Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος), [[Crete|Cretian]] painter, sculptor and architect (b. [[1541]])
 +* [[June 15]] &ndash; [[Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton]], English politician (b. [[1540]])
 +* [[July 1]] &ndash; [[Isaac Casaubon]], French-born classical scholar (b. [[1559]])
 +* [[July 14]] &ndash; [[Camillus de Lellis]], Italian saint (b. [[1550]])
 +* [[July 15]] &ndash; [[Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme]], French historian and biographer
 +* [[July 16]] &ndash; [[Tsarevich Ivan Dmitriyevich]], son of [[False Dmitriy II]]
 +* [[August 11]] &ndash; [[Lavinia Fontana]], Italian painter (b. [[1552]])
 +* [[August 21]] &ndash; [[Elizabeth Báthory]], Hungarian serial killer (b. [[1560]])
 +* September &ndash; [[Giovanni de Macque]], composer (b. c. [[1550]])
 +*''unknown date'' &ndash; [[Bartholomäus Scultetus]], mayor of [[Görlitz]] (b. [[1540]])
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Year 1614 (MDCXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

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July–December

Date unknown


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