1614
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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 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
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).
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[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 Julich-Cleves War.
- 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.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1614 MDCXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2367 |
| Armenian calendar | 1063 ԹՎ ՌԿԳ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -230 – -229 |
| 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 |
- 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)
- See also: Category:1614 births
[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)
- See also: Category:1614 deaths
