1614

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[edit] Events

  • April 5 - In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
  • October 11 - Adriaen Block and a group of Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the area he explored and named "New Netherland".
  • The French Estates-General meets for the last time before the era of the French Revolution. In between, France will be governed as an absolute monarchy.
  • John Napier publishes a paper outlining his discovery of logarithms.
  • The University of Groningen is established.
  • Institution of the Rosicrucian Order in Germany according to Fraternitas Rosae Crucis.
  • Toyotomi Hideyori attempts to restore Osaka Castle. Tokugawa Ieyasu, father of the Shogun, is outraged at this act, and takes the castle by storm.

[edit] Births

  • January 1 - John Wilkins, English clergyman (d. 1672)
  • January 5 - Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (d. 1662)
  • July 10 - Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (d. 1686)
  • December 16 - Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1674
  • Franciscus Sylvius, German scientist (d. 1672)

[edit] Deaths