1624

1624 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1624; MDCXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2377
Armenian calendar	1073; ԹՎ ՌՀԳ
Assyrian calendar	6374
Balinese saka calendar	1545–1546
Bengali calendar	1031
Berber calendar	2574
English Regnal year	21 Ja. 1 – 22 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar	2168
Burmese calendar	986
Byzantine calendar	7132–7133
Chinese calendar	癸亥年 (Water Pig); 4320 or 4260; — to —; 甲子年 (Wood Rat); 4321 or 4261
Coptic calendar	1340–1341
Discordian calendar	2790
Ethiopian calendar	1616–1617
Hebrew calendar	5384–5385
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1680–1681
- Shaka Samvat	1545–1546
- Kali Yuga	4724–4725
Holocene calendar	11624
Igbo calendar	624–625
Iranian calendar	1002–1003
Islamic calendar	1033–1034
Japanese calendar	Genna 10 / Kan'ei 1; (寛永元年)
Javanese calendar	1545–1546
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3957
Minguo calendar	288 before ROC ; 民前288年
Nanakshahi calendar	156
Thai solar calendar	2166–2167
Tibetan calendar	阴水猪年; (female Water-Pig); 1750 or 1369 or 597; — to —; 阳木鼠年; (male Wood-Rat); 1751 or 1370 or 598

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century ; 17th century ; 18th century ;
Decades:	1600s ; 1610s ; 1620s ; 1630s ; 1640s ;
Years:	1621 ; 1622 ; 1623 ; 1624 ; 1625 ; 1626 ; 1627 ;

Last updated March 02, 2019

1624 ( MDCXXIV ) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar , the 1624th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 624th year of the 2nd millennium , the 24th year of the 17th century , and the 5th year of the 1620s decade. As of the start of 1624, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Roman numerals Numbers in the Roman numeral system

The numeric system represented by Roman numerals originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages. Numbers in this system are represented by combinations of letters from the Latin alphabet. Roman numerals, as used today, employ seven symbols, each with a fixed integer value, as follows:

A leap year is a calendar year containing one additional day added to keep the calendar year synchronized with the astronomical or seasonal year. Because seasons and astronomical events do not repeat in a whole number of days, calendars that have the same number of days in each year drift over time with respect to the event that the year is supposed to track. By inserting an additional day or month into the year, the drift can be corrected. A year that is not a leap year is called a common year.

A leap year starting on Monday is any year with 366 days that begins on Monday, 1 January, and ends on Tuesday, 31 December. Its dominical letters hence are GF, such as the years 1912, 1940, 1968, 1996, 2024, 2052, 2080, and 2120 in the Gregorian calendar or, likewise, 2008, 2036, and 2064 in the obsolete Julian calendar. Any leap year that starts on Monday, Wednesday or Thursday has two Friday the 13ths. This leap year contains two Friday the 13ths in September and December. Common years starting on Tuesday share this characteristic.

Events

January–June

January 14 – After 90 years of Ottoman occupation, the Safavid Empire recaptures Baghdad.
January 24 – Afonso Mendes, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa.
April 15 – The University of Saint Francis Xavier is founded in Bolivia.
April 29 – Louis XIII of France appoints Cardinal Richelieu chief minister of the Royal Council.
May 8 – Capture of Bahia: A Dutch West India Company fleet captures the Brazilian city of Salvador, Bahia from the Portuguese Empire (at this time in the Iberian Union).
May 24 – The city of Oslo, Norway is destroyed by fire for the fourteenth time James I of England's Banqueting House, Whitehall in London is destroyed by fire ^[1]. King Christian IV of Denmark–Norway decrees its rebuilding on a new site, where it will be renamed Christiania.
May 24 – After years of unprofitable operation, Virginia's charter is revoked, and it becomes a royal colony.
May 25 – The Scottish city of Dunfermline is destroyed by fire, but The Abbey, The Palace, the Abbot House and many other buildings survive.
June – The first Dutch settlers arrive in New Netherland; they disembark at Governors Island.
June 10 – Treaty of Compiègne is signed, between the Kingdom of France and the Dutch Republic.

January 14 is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 351 days remaining until the end of the year.

The Ottoman Empire, also historically known in Western Europe as the Turkish Empire or simply Turkey, was a state that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries. It was founded at the end of the 13th century in northwestern Anatolia in the town of Söğüt by the Oghuz Turkish tribal leader Osman I. After 1354, the Ottomans crossed into Europe, and with the conquest of the Balkans, the Ottoman beylik was transformed into a transcontinental empire. The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the 1453 conquest of Constantinople by Mehmed the Conqueror.

Baghdad is the capital of Iraq. The population of Baghdad, as of 2016, is approximately 8,765,000, making it the largest city in Iraq, the second largest city in the Arab world, and the second largest city in Western Asia.

July–December

July or August – Portuguese Jesuit priest António de Andrade becomes the first European to enter Tibet.
August
- The Siege of Breda begins, and will continue for 10 months.
- Chinese admiral Yu Zigao forces the Dutch East India Company to withdraw from their post at Penghu, to Fort Zeelandia (Taiwan).
The Siege of Breda of 1624–25 occurred during the Eighty Years' War. The siege resulted in Breda, a Dutch fortified city, falling into the control of the Army of Flanders.
Yu Zigao was a Chinese admiral. He was responsible for forcing the Dutch to leave Penghu Island. While he enriched himself by way of an association with one notorious pirate, Li Dan, his position came under pressure because of another pirate, Li Dan's protégé, Zheng Zhilong.
The Dutch East India Company was an early megacorporation founded by a government-directed amalgamation of several rival Dutch trading companies (voorcompagnieën) in the early 17th century. It was originally established on March 20 1602 as a chartered company to trade with India and Indianised Southeast Asian countries when the Dutch government granted it a 21-year monopoly on the Dutch spice trade. The Company has been often labelled a trading company or sometimes a shipping company. However, the VOC was in fact a proto-conglomerate company, diversifying into multiple commercial and industrial activities such as international trade, shipbuilding, both production and trade of East Indian spices, Formosan sugarcane, and South African wine. The Company was a transcontinental employer and an early pioneer of outward foreign direct investment. The Company's investment projects helped raise the commercial and industrial potential of many underdeveloped or undeveloped regions of the world in the early modern period. In the early 1600s, by widely issuing bonds and shares of stock to the general public, the VOC became the world's first formally-listed public company. In other words, it was the first corporation to be listed on an official stock exchange. The VOC was influential in the rise of corporate-led globalization in the early modern period.
August 5 – 14 – The King's Men perform Thomas Middleton's satire A Game at Chess at the Globe Theatre, London, until it is suppressed in view of its allusions to the Spanish Match.
August 13 – Cardinal Richelieu is appointed by Louis XIII of France to be his first minister, following the arrest of his predecessor the previous day.
October – Action of October 1624: A Tuscan/Papal/Neapolitan galley fleet defeats the Algerians near Sardinia.
December 24 – Denmark's first postal service is launched by order of King Christian IV.

July is the seventh month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and the fourth of seven months to have a length of 31 days. It was named by the Roman Senate in honour of Roman general Julius Caesar, it being the month of his birth. Prior to that, it was called Quintilis, being the fifth month of the 10-month calendar.

August is the eighth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, and the fifth of seven months to have a length of 31 days. It was originally named Sextilis in Latin because it was the sixth month in the original ten-month Roman calendar under Romulus in 753 BC, and March was the first month of the year. About 700 BC, it became the eighth month when January and February were added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius, who also gave it 29 days. Julius Caesar added two days when he created the Julian calendar in 46 BC, giving it its modern length of 31 days. In 8 BC, it was renamed in honor of Augustus. According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.

The Society of Jesus is a scholarly religious congregation of the Catholic Church which originated in sixteenth-century Spain. The members are called Jesuits. The society is engaged in evangelization and apostolic ministry in 112 nations. Jesuits work in education, intellectual research, and cultural pursuits. Jesuits also give retreats, minister in hospitals and parishes, sponsor direct social ministries, and promote ecumenical dialogue.

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The Palace of Versailles is first built by Louis XIII, as a hunting lodge.
The Japanese shōgun expels the Spanish from the land, and severs trade with the Philippines.
Henry Briggs publishes Arithmetica Logarithmica.
Jakob Bartsch first publishes a chart, showing the constellation Camelopardalis around the North Star.
The French Parlement passes a decree forbidding criticism of Aristotle, on pain of death.^[2]
Queen Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba starts to rule.
The Latymer School and Latymer Upper School in London are founded, by the bequest of Edward Latymer.
Frans Hals produces the painting later known as the Laughing Cavalier .^[3]
The German-language Luther Bible is publicly burned, by order of the Pope.

The Palace of Versailles was the principal royal residence of France from 1682, under Louis XIV, until the start of the French Revolution in 1789, under Louis XVI. It is located in the department of Yvelines, in the region of Île-de-France, about 20 kilometres southwest of the centre of Paris.

<i>Shōgun</i> de facto military dictator of feudal Japan (1185-1868)

The Shōgun was the military dictator of Japan during the period from 1185 to 1868. The shogunate was their administration or government. In most of this period, the shōguns were the de facto rulers of the country, although nominally they were appointed by the Emperor as a ceremonial formality. The shōguns held almost absolute power over territories through military means. Nevertheless, an unusual situation occurred in the Kamakura period (1199–1333) upon the death of the first shōgun, whereby the Hōjō clan's hereditary titles of shikken (1199–1256) and tokusō (1256–1333) dominated the shogunate as dictatorial positions, collectively known as the Regent Rule (執権政治). The shōguns during this 134-year period met the same fate as the Emperor and were reduced to figurehead status until a coup d'état in 1333, when the shōgun was restored to power in the name of the Emperor.

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Situated in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of about 7,641 islands that are categorized broadly under three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. The capital city of the Philippines is Manila and the most populous city is Quezon City, both part of Metro Manila. Bounded by the South China Sea on the west, the Philippine Sea on the east and the Celebes Sea on the southwest, the Philippines shares maritime borders with Taiwan to the north, Vietnam to the west, Palau to the east, and Malaysia and Indonesia to the south.

Births

Guarino Guarini Guarino Guarini.jpg — Guarino Guarini

January–March

January 7 – Guarino Guarini, Italian architect of the Piedmontese Baroque (d. 1683)
January 9 – Empress Meishō of Japan (d. 1696)
January 15 – Rombout Verhulst, Dutch sculptor (d. 1698)
January 16 – Pierre Lambert de la Motte, French bishop (d. 1679)
January 18 – Thyrsus González de Santalla, Spanish theologian who was elected (d. 1705)
January 26 – George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1705)
January 31 – Arnold Geulincx, Flemish philosopher (d. 1669)
February 11
- Ivan Ančić, Croatian theological writer (d. 1685)
- Lambert Doomer, Dutch Golden Age landscape painter (d. 1700)
February 23 – Robert Treat, American colonial leader (d. 1710)
March – Jane Leade, English esotericist (d. 1704)
March 6 – Johann Georg Albinus, German pastor and hymnist (d. 1679)
March 12 – Damian Hartard von der Leyen-Hohengeroldseck, German archbishop (d. 1678)
March 20 – William Jones, English lawyer, Deputy Governor of Connecticut (d. 1706)
March 21
- François Roberday, French Baroque organist and composer (d. 1680)
- Paolo Segneri, Italian Jesuit (d. 1694)
March 25 – William Pulteney, English Member of Parliament (d. 1691)
March 31 – Antoine Pagi, French ecclesiastical historian (d. 1699)

January 7 is the seventh day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 358 days remaining until the end of the year.

Guarino Guarini Italian mathematician and architect

Camillo-Guarino Guarini was an Italian architect of the Piedmontese Baroque, active in Turin as well as Sicily, France, and Portugal. He was a Theatine priest, mathematician, and writer.

1683 (MDCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1683rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 683rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 83rd year of the 17th century, and the 4th year of the 1680s decade. As of the start of 1683, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

April–June

April 4 – François Marie, Prince of Lillebonne, French nobleman and member of the House of Lorraine (d. 1694)
April 9 – Henrik Rysensteen, Dutch military engineer (d. 1679)
April 12 – Charles Amadeus, Duke of Nemours (d. 1652)
April 15 – Pieter Nijs, Dutch Golden Age painter (d. 1681)
April 20 – Samuel Mearne, English Restoration bookbinder and publisher (d. 1683)
April 24 – Jan Peeters I, Flemish Baroque painter (d. 1677)
April 25 – Sir Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Baronet, English baronet (d. 1669)
April 26 – Johann Leusden, Dutch Calvinist theologian (d. 1699)
May 13 – Aleksander Kazimierz Sapieha, Polish nobleman and archbishop (d. 1671)
May 23 – William Duckett, English politician (d. 1686)
May 30 – Leopold Frederick, Duke of Württemberg-Montbéliard, German noble (d. 1662)
June 11 – Jean-Baptiste du Hamel, French cleric and natural philosopher (d. 1706)
June 15 – Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (d. 1704)
June 16 – William Bradford, American political and military leader (d. 1703)
June 20 – Henry Albin, English minister (d. 1696)
June 26 – James Scudamore, English politician (d. 1668)

July–September

July – George Fox, English founder of the Quakers (d. 1691)
July 11 – John Collins, English academic and politician (d. 1711)
July 18 – Francis Pemberton, English judge, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench (d. 1697)
August 6 – Charles Kerr, 2nd Earl of Ancram, English politician (d. 1690)
August 11 – John Strode, English politician (d. 1679)
August 22 – Jean Regnault de Segrais, French poet and novelist born in Caen (d. 1701)
August 23 – Anna Elisabeth of Saxe-Lauenburg, Landgravine consort of Hesse-Homburg (d. 1688)
August 24 – Petronella de la Court, Dutch art collector (d. 1707)
August 25 – François de la Chaise, French churchman (d. 1709)
August 27 – Koxinga, Chinese military leader (d. 1662)
September 1 – Simón González de Acosta, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1653)
September 10 – Thomas Sydenham, English physician (d. 1689)
September 12 – Wingfield Cromwell, 2nd Earl of Ardglass, English nobleman (d. 1668)
September 15 – Francesco Provenzale, Italian Baroque composer and teacher (d. 1704)