1618

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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • August 29 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and Hugo Grotius are imprisoned by Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange
  • October 29 - English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
  • The margraves of Brandenburg is granted Polish approval to inherit Ducal Prussia.
  • November 13, the Synod of Dordrecht has its first meeting.
  • 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.

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