Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1590s  1600s  1610s  – 1620s –  1630s  1640s  1650s
Years:	1621 1622 1623 – 1624 – 1625 1626 1627

1624 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Year 1624 (MDCXXIV) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1624 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 References

[edit] Events of 1624

[edit] January–June

• January 24 – Alfonso Mendez, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa.
• June 10 – Treaty of Compiègne, signed between France and the Netherlands

[edit] July–December

• August – The Siege of Breda begins, and will continue for 11 months.
• October (start) – A Tuscan/Papal/Neapolitan force defeats the Algerians near Sardinia (details).

[edit] Undated

• Martin Luther's German translation of the Bible is publicly burned by order of the Pope.
• The Netherlands establishes a trading colony at Tainan on Taiwan.
• Thirty Walloon families settle in the New Netherland colony.
• The Virginia Land Company's charter is revoked and Virginia becomes a crown colony.
• Oslo is destroyed by fire: when rebuilt by Christian IV, it will be renamed Christiania.
• Jakob Bartsch records the constellation Camelopardalis around the north star.
• The Palace of Versailles is first built by Louis XIII, as a hunting lodge.
• The Dutch city of Ommen is devastated by fire.
• The Japanese Shogun expels the Spanish from the land and severs trade with the Philippines.
• Mail service begins in Denmark.
• A university is founded in Bolivia.
• Cornelius Drebbel first discovers gases.
• Cardinal Richelieu is appointed by Louis XIII to be his advisor.
• Henry Briggs publishes Arithmetica Logarithmica.
• The French Parliament passes a decree forbidding criticism of Aristotle on pain of death.^[1]
• Queen Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba starts to rule.
• The Latymer School and Latymer Upper School in London are founded by the bequest of Edward Latymer.
• The city of Dunfermline is also destroyed by fire, but The Abbey, The Palace, the The Abbot House and many other buildings survive.

[edit] Births

1624 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1624 MDCXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2377
Armenian calendar	1073 ԹՎ ՌՀԳ
Bahá'í calendar	-220 – -219
Bengali calendar	1031
Berber calendar	2574
Buddhist calendar	2168
Burmese calendar	986
Byzantine calendar	7132 – 7133
Chinese calendar	癸亥年十一月十一日 (4260/4320-11-11) — to — 甲子年十一月廿二日 (4261/4321-11-22)
Coptic calendar	1340 – 1341
Ethiopian calendar	1616 – 1617
Hebrew calendar	5384 – 5385
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1679 – 1680
- Shaka Samvat	1546 – 1547
- Kali Yuga	4725 – 4726
Holocene calendar	11624
Iranian calendar	1002 – 1003
Islamic calendar	1033 – 1034
Japanese calendar	Genna 10Kan'ei 1 (寛永元年)
Korean calendar	3957
Thai solar calendar	2167
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• January 9 – Meishō, empress of Japan (d. 1696)
• January 15 – Rombout Verhulst, Dutch sculptor (d. 1698)
• January 31 – Arnold Geulincx, Flemish philosopher (d. 1669)
• June 15 – Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (d. 1704)
• July – George Fox, English founder of the Quakers (d. 1691)
• August 22 – Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (d. 1701)
• August 25 – Père François de La Chaise, French churchman (d. 1709)
• September 10 – Thomas Sydenham, English physician (d. 1689)
• October 30 – Paul Pellisson, French author (d. 1693)
• date unknown
  • Koxinga, Chinese military leader (d. 1662)

See also Category:1624 births.

[edit] Deaths

• February 12 – George Heriot, Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist (b. 1563)
• February 13 – Stephen Gosson, English satirist (b. 1554)
• February 17 – Juan de Mariana, Spanish historian (b. 1536)
• July – Alonso Fajardo y Tenza, governor of the Philippines
• November 10 – Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (b. 1573)
• November 17 – Jakob Böhme, German mystic (b. 1575)
• December 5 – Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (b. 1560)
• December 14 – Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English statesman (b. 1536)
• December 26 – Simon Marius, German astronomer (b. 1573)
• date unknown
  • Francesco Andreini, Italian actor (b. c. 1548)

See also Category:1624 deaths.

[edit] References

1. ^ "Rene Descartes", Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 11 Oct. 2009.