Events of 1615

January - June

• 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 is signed between Holy Roman Emperor Matthias and Gábor Bethlen.
• June 2 - The first Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
• June 4 - Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan, beginning a period of peace which lasts nearly 250 years. Bands of Christian samurai support Ieyasu's enemies at the Battle of Osaka.

July - December

• November - The Mughals under Abu Bakr launch the 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.

Undated

• The second volume of Miguel Cervantes' Don Quiote ("El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha") is published.
• The Sengoku Period ends in Japan.
• The Grolsch Brewery is founded in Groenlo, Netherlands.
• Persian hordes led by Shah-Abbas kill all the monks at the David Gareja monastery complex in Georgia, and 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 sends 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. <<< PROBLEM:: CHARLES 1 doesn't exist until 1625 >>>>>
• Austrian merchants receive economic privileges in Turkey.
• Wilson's School is founded by Royal Charter.
• Konoike Shinroku opens an office in Osaka. He begins shipping tax-rice from wester Japan to Osaka.

Births

• January 14 - John Biddle, English theologian (d. 1662)
• January 25 - Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (d. 1660)
• January 30 - Thomas Rolfe, Virginia colonist and son of Pocahontas
• March 13 - Pope Innocent XII (d. 1700)
• June 20 (or July 31) - Salvator Rosa, Italian painter (d. 1673)
• September 7 - Colonel John Birch, English soldier (d. 1691)
• November 5 - Ibrahim I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1648)
• November 12 - Richard Baxter, English clergyman (d. 1691)
• November 24 - Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1690)

See also 1615 births.

Deaths

• January 31 - Claudio Aquaviva, Italian Jesuit (b. 1543)
• February 4 - Dom Justo Takayama, Japanese warlord (b. 1552)
• March 4 - Hans von Aachen, German painter (b. 1552)
• May 4 - Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (b. 1561)
• May 7 - Sanada Yukimura, legendary Japanese samurai (b. 1567)
• May 27 - Marguerite de Valois, queen of Henry IV of France (b. 1553)
• June 23 - Mashita Nagamori, minor Japanese daimyo (b. 1545)
• September 1 - Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and man of letters (b. 1529)
• September 27 - Arbella Stuart, English noblewoman and woman of letters (b. 1575)
• Late November - Edward Wright, English mathematician and cartographer (b. 1561)
• November 24 - Sethus Calvisius, German calendar reformer (b. 1556)

See also 1615 deaths.