1624
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1624 (MDCXXIV) is the 624th year of the 2nd millennium, the 24th year of the 17th century, and the 5th year of the 1620s decade.
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Art and culture
- August – Portuguese Jesuit priest António de Andrade becomes the first European to enter Tibet, arriving at Tsaparang.
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Literature
- August 5 – The King's Men perform Thomas Middleton's satire A Game at Chess at the Globe Theatre in London. The performances are suppressed on August 14 in view of the play's allusions to the Spanish Match.
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Fiction
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Non-fiction
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Visual art
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Music
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Architecture
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Births
- August 22 – Jean Regnault de Segrais, French poet and novelist born in Caen (d. 1701)
- September 10 – Thomas Sydenham, English physician (d. 1689)
- October 20 – Jan Albertsz Rotius, Dutch painter (d. 1666)
- October 30 – Paul Pellisson, French author (d. 1693)
- December 25 – Angelus Silesius, German writer (d. 1677)
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Deaths
- February 17 – Juan de Mariana, Spanish historian (b. 1536)
- September – Marco Antonio de Dominis, Dalmatian archbishop and apostate (b. 1560)
- September 23 – Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech, Dutch Golden Age painter (b. 1592)
- November 13 – Thomas van Erpe, Dutch Orientialist, cartographer (b. 1584)
- November 17 – Jakob Böhme, German mystic (b. 1575)
- December 5 – Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (b. 1560)
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