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| == Births == | == Births == | ||
| - | * [[January 1]] – [[John Wilkins]], English clergyman (d. [[1672]]) | + | *[[John Wilkins]], English clergyman (d. [[1672]]) |
| - | * [[January 5]] – [[Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria]], Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (d. [[1662]]) | + | *[[Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria]], Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (d. [[1662]]) |
| - | * [[July 10]] – [[Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey]], English royalist statesman (d. [[1686]]) | + | *[[Franciscus Sylvius]], German scientist (d. [[1672]]) |
| - | * [[December 16]] – [[Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg]] (d. [[1674]]) | + | |
| - | *''date unknown'' – [[Franciscus Sylvius]], German scientist (d. [[1672]]) | + | |
| == Deaths == | == Deaths == | ||
| - | * [[April 7]] – [[El Greco]], or Domênikos Theotokópoulos (Greek: Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος), [[Crete|Cretian]] painter, sculptor and architect (b. [[1541]]) | + | *[[El Greco]], or Domênikos Theotokópoulos (Greek: Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος), [[Crete|Cretian]] painter, sculptor and architect (b. [[1541]]) |
| * [[June 15]] – [[Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton]], English politician (b. [[1540]]) | * [[June 15]] – [[Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton]], English politician (b. [[1540]]) | ||
| * [[July 1]] – [[Isaac Casaubon]], French-born classical scholar (b. [[1559]]) | * [[July 1]] – [[Isaac Casaubon]], French-born classical scholar (b. [[1559]]) | ||
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- Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe in Jamestown, Virginia.
- The Rosicrucian Order is instituted in the Holy Roman Empire according to Fraternitas Rosae Crucis.
Literature
Fiction
Non-fiction
Visual art
Music
Architecture
Births
Deaths
- Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian alleged serial killer (b. 1560)
- El Greco (b. 1541)
- Brantome (b. 1540)
- August 23 – The University of Groningen is established in the Dutch Republic.
- September 1 – In England, Sir Julius Caesar becomes Master of the Rolls.
- October 11 – Adriaen Block and a group of Amsterdam merchants petition the States General of the Northern Netherlands for exclusive trading rights in the area he explored and named "New Netherland".
- November 16 – The Treaty of Xanten ends the War of the Jülich succession.
- November 19 – 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 – 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 mathematician John Napier publishes Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio (Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithms), outlining his discovery of logarithms and incorporating the decimal mark. Astronomer Johannes Kepler soon begins to employ logarithms in his description of the solar system.
- Christianity banned throughout Japan
Births
- John Wilkins, English clergyman (d. 1672)
- Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (d. 1662)
- Franciscus Sylvius, German scientist (d. 1672)
Deaths
- El Greco, or Domênikos Theotokópoulos (Greek: Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος), Cretian painter, sculptor and architect (b. 1541)
- June 15 – Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, English politician (b. 1540)
- July 1 – Isaac Casaubon, French-born classical scholar (b. 1559)
- July 14 – Camillus de Lellis, Italian saint (b. 1550)
- July 15 – Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, French historian and biographer
- July 16 – Tsarevich Ivan Dmitriyevich, son of False Dmitriy II
- August 11 – Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (b. 1552)
- August 21 – Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian serial killer (b. 1560)
- September – Giovanni de Macque, composer (b. c. 1550)
- unknown date – Bartholomäus Scultetus, mayor of Görlitz (b. 1540)
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