1615

Centuries:	16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades:	1580s 1590s 1600s - 1610s - 1620s 1630s 1640s
Years:	1612 1613 1614 - 1615 - 1616 1617 1618

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Year 1615 (MDCXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

[edit] Events of 1615

1 January - The New Netherland Company is granted a 3 year monopoly in North American trade between the 40th and 45th parallels.
March 10 - Saint John Ogilvie, a Catholic priest, is hanged in Glasgow, Scotland.
May 6 - The Peace of Tyrnau was signed between Holy Roman Emperor Matthias and Gábor Bethlen.
June 2 - First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
June 4 - Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu took Osaka Castle in Japan, beginning a period of peace which lasts nearly 250 years.

November - The Mughals under Abu Bakr launch a first offensive against Kajali, a border post of the Ahom kingdom.
November - Hasekura Tsunenaga visits Pope Paul V in Rome to request a trade treaty between Japan and Mexico.
December 6 - In England, John Winthrop, later governor of the future Massachusetts Bay Colony, marries his second wife (of 4), Thomasine Clopton, daughter of William Clopton of Castleins, near Groton, England.

The second volume of Miguel Cervantes' Don Quixote is published.
End of the Sengoku Period in Japan.
Founding of the Grolsch Brewery in Groenlo, Netherlands.
Persian hordes led by Shah-Abbas kill all the monks at the David Gareja monastery complex in Georgia set fire to its collection of manuscripts and works of art.
Mary Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury, is released from the Tower of London in recognition of her role in helping to discover the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury.
The Somers Isles Company is founded to administer Bermuda.
Johannes Kepler publishes Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo in response to Galileo's discovery of Jupiter's moons.
King James I of Great Britain sent Sir Thomas Roe as his ambassador to the Mughal court of Jahangir.
The Perse School in Cambridge, England, is founded by Dr Stephen Perse.
John Browne is created as the first King's Gunfounder by Charles I.
Austrian merchants receive economic previlegies in Turkey.
Wilson's School founded by Royal Charter.