1615
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Years: 1612 1613 1614 - 1615 - 1616 1617 1618 |
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Decades: 1580s 1590s 1600s - 1610s - 1620s 1630s 1640s |
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Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
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1615 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
[edit] Events
- June 2 - First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
- June 4 - Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu took Osaka Castle in Japan, beginning a period of peace which lasts nearly 250 years.
- The second volume of Miguel Cervantes' Don Quixote is published.
- End of the Sengoku Period in Japan.
[edit] 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)
- 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)
- Georg Daniel Schultz, Polish painter
See also Category:1615 births.
[edit] 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, Japanese samurai (b. 1567)
- May 27 - Marguerite de Valois, queen of Henry IV of France (b. 1553)
- June 23 - Mashita Nagamori, Japanese warlord (b. 1545)
- September 1 - Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and man of letters (b. 1529)
- November 24 - Sethus Calvisius, German calendar reformer (b. 1556)
See also Category:1615 deaths.