1624

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Cite This Source

Year 1624 (MDCXXIV) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1624

January - June

• January 3 - William Tucker, the first black child born in America
• January 24 - Alfonso Mendez, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa.

July - December

• August - The Siege of Breda begins, and will continue for eleven months.
• October (start) - Tuscan/Papal/Neapolitan force defeats Algerians near Sardinia (details).

Undated

• Martin Luther's German translation of the Bible is publicly burned by order of the Pope.
• The Netherlands establish a trading colony at Kaohsiung on Taiwan.
• Thirty Walloon families settle in the New Netherland colony.
• The Virginia Land Company's charter is revoked and Virginia becomes a crown colony.
• Oslo is destroyed by fire: when rebuilt by Christian IV, it would be renamed Christiania.
• Claudio Monteverdi publishes Tancredi e Clorinda.
• Jean Louis Guez de Balzac publishes his Lettres.
• Bernardo de Balbuena publishes El Bernardo.
• Santa Rosalia makes a miraculous appearance during a plague in Palermo.
• Kalmia latifolia (mountain laurel) first recorded in America.
• Jakob Bartsch records the constellation Camelopardalis around north star.
• Sir William Borlase's Grammar School is founded.
• Dr Challoner's Grammar School is founded.
• The Palace of Versailles is first built, as a hunting lodge.
• Muchalls Castle plasterwork ceilings are completed.
• Construction of Chateau Cheverny begins.
• Pembroke College, Oxford is founded.
• The Dutch city of Ommen is devastated by fire.
• The Japanese Shogun expels Spanish from the land and severs trade with the Philippines.
• Mail service begins in Denmark.
• University founded in Bolivia.
• Cornelius Drebbel first discovers gases.
• Cardinal Richelieu appointed by Louis XIII to be his advisor.
• Henry Briggs publishes Arithmetica Logarithmica.
• The French Parliament passes a decree forbidding criticism of Aristotle on pain of death.
• Queen Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba starts to rule.

Births

• January 9 - Meishō, empress of Japan (died 1696)
• January 31 - Arnold Geulincx, Flemish philosopher (died 1669)
• June 15 - Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (died 1704)
• July - George Fox, English founder of the Quakers (died 1691)
• August 22 - Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (died 1701)
• August 25 - Père François de La Chaise, French churchman (died 1709)
• September 10 - Thomas Sydenham, English physician (died 1689)
• October 30 - Paul Pellisson, French author (died 1693)
• date unknown
• Koxinga, Chinese military leader (died 1662)

See also 1624 births.

Deaths

• February 12 - George Heriot, Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist (born 1563)
• February 13 - Stephen Gosson, English satirist (born 1554)
• February 17 - Juan de Mariana, Spanish historian (born 1536)
• July - Alonso Fajardo y Tenza, governor of the Philippines
• November 10 - Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (born 1573)
• November 17 - Jakob Böhme, German mystic (born 1575)
• December 5 - Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (born 1560)
• December 14 - Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English statesman (born 1536)
• December 26 - Simon Marius, German astronomer (born 1573)
• date unknown
• Francesco Andreini, Italian actor (born c1548)

See also 1624 deaths.

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia © 2001-2006 Wikipedia contributors (Disclaimer)
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Last updated on Thursday March 06, 2008 at 23:55:44 PST (GMT -0800)
View this article at Wikipedia.org - Edit this article at Wikipedia.org - Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation