1611
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Centuries: | 16th century - 17th century - 18th century |
Decades: | 1580s 1590s 1600s - 1610s - 1620s 1630s 1640s |
Years: | 1608 1609 1610 - 1611 - 1612 1613 1614 |
1611 in topic: |
Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
Art - Literature - Music - Science |
Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1611 (MDCXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1611
[edit] April
- April 28 - The Colegio de Nuestra Señora del Santísimo Rosario is established in Manila, the Philippines (later renamed Colegio de Santo Tomas, now known as the University of Santo Tomas).
[edit] July - December
- August 2 - Jamestown: Deputy Governor Sir Thomas Gates returns to Virginia with 280 people, provisions and cattle on 6 ships and assumes control, ruling that the fort must be strengthened.
- September - Jamestown: Thomas Dale, with 350 men, starts building Henricus.
- October 30 - Gustavus Adolphus succeeds his father Charles IX as king of Sweden.
- November 1 - At Whitehall Palace in London, William Shakespeare's romantic comedy The Tempest is performed for the first time.
[edit] Undated
- The complete King James Version of the Bible is first published in England.
- Johannes and David Fabricius discover sunspots.
- Emperor Go-Mizunoo succeeds Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan.
- Jamestown: John Rolfe imports tobacco seeds from the island of Trinidad (Nicotiana tabacum); the native tobacco is Nicotiana rustica.
- Thomas Dale founds the city of Henricus on the James River, a few miles south of present day Richmond, Virginia.
- Denmark attacks Sweden.
- George Abbot becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Construction begins on Naghsh-i Jahan Square in Isfahan, Persia.
[edit] Births
Gregorian calendar | 1611 MDCXI |
Ab urbe condita | 2364 |
Armenian calendar | 1060 ԹՎ ՌԿ |
Bahá'í calendar | -233 – -232 |
Berber calendar | 2561 |
Buddhist calendar | 2155 |
Burmese calendar | 973 |
Byzantine calendar | 7119 – 7120 |
Chinese calendar | 庚戌年十一月十八日 (4247/4307-11-18) — to —
辛亥年十一月廿八日(4248/4308-11-28) |
Coptic calendar | 1327 – 1328 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1603 – 1604 |
Hebrew calendar | 5371 – 5372 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1666 – 1667 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1533 – 1534 |
- Kali Yuga | 4712 – 4713 |
Holocene calendar | 11611 |
Iranian calendar | 989 – 990 |
Islamic calendar | 1019 – 1020 |
Japanese calendar | Keichō 16 (慶長16年) |
Korean calendar | 3944 |
Thai solar calendar | 2154 |
- January 28 - Johannes Hevelius, astronomer (d. 1687)
- May 16 - Pope Innocent XI (d. 1689)
- July 16 - Archduchess Cecilia Renata of Austria, Queen of Poland (d. 1644)
- September 1 - William Cartwright (d. 1643)
- September 8 - Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (d. 1671)
- September 11 - Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, Marshal of France (d. 1675)
- November 1 - François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (d. 1656)
- date unknown
- Karl Eusebius of Liechtenstein, second Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1684)
- Diego Quispe Tito, Peruvian painter (d. 1681)
- probable
- D'Artagnan, musketeer (d. 1673)
- See also Category:1611 births.
[edit] Deaths
- February 12 - Jodocus Hondius, cartographer (b. 1563)
- February 26 - Antonio Possevino, papal legate to Russia
- March 5 - Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1533)
- June 8 - Jean Bertaut, French poet (b. 1552)
- July 26 - Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542)
- August 2 - Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1562)
- August 20 - Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer (b. 1548?)
- October 3 - Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (b. 1554)
- October 30 - King Charles IX of Sweden (b. 1550)
- date unknown - Camillo Mariani, sculptor (b. 1565)
- date unknown - Henry Hudson, explorer (b. 1560)
- See also Category:1611 deaths.