1618

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Year 1618 (MDCXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1618

January - June

• March 8 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion (he soon rejects the idea after some initial calculations were made but on May 15 confirms the discovery).
• May 23 - The Second Defenestration of Prague - Protestant noblemen throw three representatives of Ferdinand II out of a window. The event precipitates the Thirty Years' War.
• June 14 – Estimated date when Joris Veseler prints the first Dutch newspaper Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c. in Amsterdam.
• July 20 - Pluto reached, according to sophisticated mathematical calculations, its second most recent aphelion. The next one occurred in 1866, and the following one will occur in 2113.

July - December

• August 29 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and Hugo Grotius are imprisoned by Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange.
• September 18 - marks the beginning of the 12th Baktun in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, the final phase of the Great Cycle.
• September 19-November 21 - Siege of Plzeň
• October 29 - English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
• November 13 - the Synod of Dordrecht has its first meeting.

Undated

• The markgraves of Brandenburg are granted Polish approval to inherit the Duchy of Prussia.
• Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mustafa I (1617-1623) to Osman II (1618-1622).
• The 3000 seat Teatro Farnese, the first permanent proscenium theatre, was built into the Great Hall of the Palazzo della Pilotta in Parma, Italy in 1618.
• The Ming Chinese embassy of the Wanli Emperor presents tea to the Russian tsar.
• Thirty Years War starts. The Bohemian Revolt starts.

Births

• January 1 - Bartolomé Estéban Murillo, Spanish painter (d. 1682)
• April 2 - Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1663)
• April 13 - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (d. 1693)
• November 3 - Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1707)
• November - Simon Arnauld de Pomponne, French diplomat and minister of Louis XIV (d. 1699)
• date unknown
• Ādiŧyavoṇś, Ayuthian monarch
• Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, politician (member of the Cabal)
• Richard Lovelace, English poet (died c1657)

See also :Category: 1618 births.

Deaths

• February 20 - Philip William, Prince of Orange (b. 1554)
• March 23 - James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn, Scottish politician (born c 1575)
• June 7 - Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English Governor of Virginia (b. 1577)
• August 23 - Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (b. 1585)
• September 28 - Joshua Sylvester, English poet (b. 1563)
• October 29 - Sir Walter Raleigh, English courtier and settler of Virginia (executed) (b. 1554)
• November 2 - Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (b. 1558)
• December 6 - Jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (b. 1556)
• December 10 - Giulio Caccini, Italian composer (born 1551)
• probable - Chief Powhatan, whose proper name was Wahunsenacawh, father of Pocahontas (born c.1547)

See also :Category: 1618 deaths.

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