1624

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Years: 1621 1622 1623 - 1624 - 1625 1626 1627

Decades: 1590s 1600s 1610s - 1620s - 1630s 1640s 1650s

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1624 by topic: Arts and Science Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science Lists of leaders Colonial governors - State leaders Birth and death categories Births - Deaths Establishments and disestablishments categories Establishments - Disestablishments Works category Works 1624 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 1624 MDCXXIV Ab urbe condita 2377 Armenian calendar 1073 ԹՎ ՌՀԳ Chinese calendar 4260/4320-11-11 (癸亥年十一月十一日) — to — 4261/4321-11-22 (甲子年十一月廿二日) Ethiopian calendar 1616 – 1617 Hebrew calendar 5384 – 5385 Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat 1679 – 1680 - Shaka Samvat 1546 – 1547 - Kali Yuga 4725 – 4726 Iranian calendar 1002 – 1003 Islamic calendar 1033 – 1034 Japanese calendar Genna 10 (元和10年) — changed to — Kan'ei 1 (寛永元年) - Imperial Year Kōki 2284 (皇紀2284年) - Jōmon Era 11624 Thai solar calendar 2167

1624 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

[edit] Events

• January 24 - Alfonso Mendez, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa.
• The Netherlands establish a trading colony at Kaohsiung on Taiwan.
• Thirty Walloon families settle in the New Netherland 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.
• 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.
• Chateau Cheverny begins construction.
• Pembroke College, Oxford founded.
• The Japanese Shogun expels Spanish from the land and severs trade with the Philippines.
• Mail service begins in Denmark.
• University founded in Bolivia.
• War between England and Spain.
• Cornelius Drebbel first discovers gases.
• Cardinal Richelieu appointed by Louis XIII to be his advisor.
• Henry Briggs publishes Arithmetica Logarithmica.

[edit] Births

• January 9 - Empress Meisho 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)
• Koxinga, Chinese military leader (died 1662)

See also Category:1624 births.

[edit] 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)
• November 10 - Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (born 1573)
• 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)
• Francesco Andreini, Italian actor (born c1548)
• Jakob Böhme, German mystic (born 1575)

See also Category:1624 deaths.