This article is about the year 1614.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 16th century – 17th century – 18th century |
Decades: | 1580s 1590s 1600s – 1610s – 1620s 1630s 1640s |
Years: | 1611 1612 1613 – 1614 – 1615 1616 1617 |
1614 by topic: | |
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Gregorian calendar | 1614 MDCXIV |
Ab urbe condita | 2367 |
Armenian calendar | 1063 ԹՎ ՌԿԳ |
Assyrian calendar | 6364 |
Bahá'í calendar | -230–-229 |
Bengali calendar | 1021 |
Berber calendar | 2564 |
English Regnal year | 11 Ja. 1 – 12 Ja. 1 |
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 | 1670–1671 |
- 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) |
Juche calendar | N/A (before 1912) |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
Korean calendar | 3947 |
Minguo calendar | 298 before ROC 民前298年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2157 |
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.
Events
January–June
- April 5 – Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe in Jamestown, Virginia.
July–December
- June 29 – Shakespeare's Globe Theater burnt down when a cannon containing flaming rags misfired onto the roof, during the festivities of Queen Elizabeth I's arrival to view a performance of Romeo and Juliet.
- 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 – Start of hostilities resulting from an attempt by Toyotomi Hideyorito 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 States-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.
- The Rosicrucian Order is instituted in the Holy Roman Empire according to Fraternitas Rosae Crucis.
- Christianity banned throughout Japan
Births
- 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)
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
- 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)