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1614

Events of 1614

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 - Treaty of Xanten
November 19 - Beginning of the Siege of Osaka.

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 University of Groningen is established.
Institution of the Rosicrucian Order 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.

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)