Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1580s  1590s  1600s  – 1610s –  1620s  1630s  1640s
Years:	1611 1612 1613 – 1614 – 1615 1616 1617

1614 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Year 1614 (MDCXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1614 1.1 July–December 1.2 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1614

[edit] July–December

• August 23 – The University of Groningen is established in the Netherlands.
• 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 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 – The Siege of Osaka begins.

[edit] Undated

• The French Estates-General meets for the last time before the era of the French Revolution. In between, France will be governed as an absolute monarchy.
• John Napier publishes Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio, a paper outlining his discovery of logarithms.
• The Rosicrucian Order is instituted in Germany according to Fraternitas Rosae Crucis.
• Toyotomi Hideyori attempts to restore Osaka Castle. Tokugawa Ieyasu, father of the Shogun, is outraged at this act, and takes the castle by storm.
• Christianity banned throughout Japan

[edit] Births

1614 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1614 MDCXIV
Ab urbe condita	2367
Armenian calendar	1063 ԹՎ ՌԿԳ
Bahá'í calendar	-230 – -229
Bengali calendar	1021
Berber calendar	2564
Buddhist calendar	2158
Burmese calendar	976
Byzantine calendar	7122 – 7123
Chinese calendar	癸丑年十一月廿一日 (4250/4310-11-21) — to — 甲寅年十二月初一日 (4251/4311-12-1)
Coptic calendar	1330 – 1331
Ethiopian calendar	1606 – 1607
Hebrew calendar	5374 – 5375
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1669 – 1670
- Shaka Samvat	1536 – 1537
- Kali Yuga	4715 – 4716
Holocene calendar	11614
Iranian calendar	992 – 993
Islamic calendar	1022 – 1023
Japanese calendar	Keichō 19 (慶長19年)
Korean calendar	3947
Thai solar calendar	2157
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• January 1 – John Wilkins, English clergyman (d. 1672)
• January 5 – 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)
• December 16 – Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1674)
• date unknown – Franciscus Sylvius, German scientist (d. 1672)

[edit] Deaths

• April 7 – 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
• 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)