Editing 1615 (section)

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 1]] &ndash; The [[New Netherland Company]] is granted a three-year [[monopoly]] in [[North America]]n trade, between the [[40th parallel north|40th]] and [[45th parallel north|45th]] [[Circle of latitude|parallels]].
* [[January 30]] &ndash; Japan's diplomatic mission to Europe, led by [[Hasekura Tsunenaga]], meets with [[Philip III of Spain|King Philip III of Spain]] at [[Madrid]] and presents an offer of a treaty.
* [[February 2]] &ndash; Sir [[Thomas Roe]] sets out to become the first ambassador from the court of the [[King of England]] to the [[Mughal Empire|Mughal Emperor]] [[Jahangir]],<ref name="Cassell's Chronology 243248">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/243|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/243 243–248]}}</ref><ref>{{cite ODNB|first=Michael|last=Strachan|title=Roe, Sir Thomas (1581–1644)|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23943|access-date=2012-10-09|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/23943}} </ref> departing from Tilbury Hope on the ship ''Lyon'' under the command of captain [[Christopher Newport]]. <ref>Thomas Roe, as edited by Sir William Foster, ''The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul, 1615-1619, as Narrated in His Journal and Correspondence'' (Hakluyt Society, 1899) p. 28 ("All being ready, on February 2, 1615, Roe embarked with fifteen followers in the Lion at Tilbury Hope.")</ref>
* [[February 17]] &ndash; Japan's envoy to Europe, Hasekura Tsunenaga, receives a Christian baptism by the royal chaplain, Diego de Guzmán, and receives the European name Felipe Francisco Hasekura. <ref>"The Perception of the Japanese in Early Modern Spain: Not Quite 'The Best People Yet Discovered'", by Christina H. Lee, in ''EHumanista'' (2008) pp. 358–359 </ref>
* [[March 10]] &ndash; [[John Ogilvie (saint)|John Ogilvie]], a Jesuit priest, is [[Hanged, drawn and quartered|hanged and drawn]] at [[Glasgow Cross]] in [[Kingdom of Scotland|Scotland]] for refusing to pledge allegiance to [[King James VI of Scotland]]; he will be [[canonised]] in 1976, becoming the only post-[[Scottish Reformation|Reformation]] Scottish saint.

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 21]] &ndash; The [[Wignacourt Aqueduct]] is inaugurated in [[History of Malta under the Order of Saint John|Malta]].
* [[May 6]] &ndash; The [[Peace of Tyrnau]] is signed between [[Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor]], and [[Gábor Bethlen]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Sir Adolphus William Ward|author2=Sir George Walter Prother|author3=Sir Stanley Mordaunt Leathes|title=The Cambridge Modern History: Planned by Lord Acton|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vNZFAAAAYAAJ|year=1934|publisher=Macmillan|page=11}}</ref>
* [[June 2]] &ndash; The first [[Récollet]] [[missionaries]] arrive at [[Quebec City]], from [[Rouen]], [[Kingdom of France|France]].
* [[June 3]]  &ndash; The Eastern Army of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] and the Osaka Army of [[Toyotomi Hideyori]] clash during the [[Battle of Dōmyōji]] and the [[Battle of Tennōji]].
* [[June 4]] &ndash; Forces under shōgun [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] take [[Osaka Castle]] in [[Japan]], beginning a period of peace which lasts nearly 250 years. Bands of Christian samurai support Ieyasu's enemies at the [[Battle of Osaka]].
* [[June 21]] &ndash; The [[Peace of Asti]] is concluded between the [[Spanish Empire]] and [[Duchy of Savoy|Savoy]].<ref>{{cite book|editor=Lesaffer, Randall|title=Peace Treaties and International Law in European History: From the Late Middle Ages to World War One|url=https://archive.org/details/peacetreatiesint00lesa|url-access=limited|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2004|page=[https://archive.org/details/peacetreatiesint00lesa/page/n61 39]|isbn=9780521827249}}</ref>

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 7]] &ndash; In Japan, the ''Buke shohatto'', a 19-section law setting a standard of conduct for individual warlords (daimyo) and their responsibilities to the [[Tokugawa shogunate]], is proclaimed by the shogun Tokugawa Hidetada before the assembled daimyo at Fushimi Castle in Kyoto. <ref>"Buke shohatto", by Kiri Paramore, in ''Japan at War: An Encyclopedia'', ed. by Louis G. Perez (ABC-CLIO, 2013) pp. 40-41</ref>
* [[August 9]] &ndash; Swedish troops led by King [[Gustavus Adolphus]] begin the [[Siege of Pskov (1615)|siege of the Russian city]] of [[Pskov]], but fail to take the fortress after 12 weeks. The siege ends on October 27. 
* [[August 20]] &ndash; [[Álvaro III of Kongo|Alvaro III Nimi a Mpanzu]] becomes the new ruler of the [[Kingdom of Kongo]] (located in southwestern Africa in what is now Angola) upon the death of his brother, [[Bernardo II of Kongo|Bernardo II Nimi a Nkanga]]. 
* [[August 30]] &ndash; A [[Spanish treasure fleet]] of 41 ships is struck in the Gulf of Mexico by a powerful storm that sinks the ship ''San Miguel'' 
* [[September 12]] &ndash; [[List of Atlantic hurricanes in the 17th century#1600–1624|The San Leoncio Day hurricane]] strikes the islands of Puerto Rico and Hispaniola.
* [[September 16]] &ndash; [[1615 Arica earthquake|An estimated 7.5 magnitude earthquake]] strikes [[Arica]] (now part of [[Chile]] in the Spanish colonial [[Viceroyalty of Peru]] and collapses the city's fort, but causes no deaths.
* [[September 17]] &ndash; [[Los Baños, Laguna]], is founded by Spanish colonists on [[Luzon]] island in the [[Philippines]].
* [[September 20]] &ndash; Japanese diplomat [[Hasekura Tsunenaga]] and his entourage become the first officials from Japan to visit Italy, and are received in [[Rome]] by Cardinal Burgecio

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 5]] &ndash; The [[Slaying of the Spaniards|Spánverjavígin]], the last massacre to be carried out in Iceland, begins as 14 [[History of Basque whaling|Basque Whalers]] from [[Spain]] are murdered at [[Thingeyri]] while sleeping. Another 18 are killed on October 13, including Captain Martín de Villafranca. The 31 had been survivors of a shipwreck on Iceland in September. 
* [[October 27]] &ndash; In Russia, the [[Siege of Pskov (1615)|siege of Pskov]] ends with the withdrawal of Swedish Army troops. The siege is the last battle of the [[Ingrian War]].
* [[November 3]] &ndash; Japanese diplomat [[Hasekura Tsunenaga]] and his delegation are received by [[Pope Paul V]] in [[Rome]], and present a request for trade between the Roman Catholic Church and the Japanese shogunate<ref> "A Quarter Century of Trans-Pacific Diplomacy: New Spain and Japan, 1592–1617", by W. Michael Mathes, ''Journal of Asian History'' (1990) pp. 1–29</ref> 
* [[November 7]] &ndash; The Portuguese freighter ''Nossa Senhora da Luz'', carrying 150 crew and a cargo of Chinese and Burmese goods, sinks in a storm near the Azores.  
* [[November 22]] &ndash; [[Alexandru Movilă]] is installed as [[List of rulers of Moldavia|Prince of Moldavia]] by Poland as Prince [[Ștefan IX Tomșa]] is driven from the throne.
* [[November 24]] &ndash; [[Louis XIII|King Louis XIII of France]] marries [[Anne of Austria|Princess Ana María Mauricia]], the 14-year-old daughter of [[Philip III of Spain|King Philip III of Spain]]. The two had been legally united in a marriage by proxy on October 18.
* [[November]] &ndash; The [[Mughal Empire|Mughals]] under [[Jahangir]] launch the first offensive against [[Kajali, Palghar|Kajali]], a border post of the [[Ahom kingdom]].
* [[December 2]] &ndash; In the [[Republic of Venice|Venetian Republic]], [[Giovanni Bembo]] is elected chief executive as the new [[List of Doges of Venice|Doge of Venice]] after the October 31 death of [[Marcantonio Memmo]].
* [[December 6]] &ndash; In [[Kingdom of England|England]], [[John Winthrop]], later governor of the future [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]], marries his second wife (of four), Thomasine Clopton, daughter of William Clopton of Castleins, near [[Groton, Suffolk]].
* [[December 18]] &ndash; [[Francisco de Borja y Aragón]] becomes the new [[List of viceroys of Peru|Viceroy of Peru]], a colony of Spain encompassing all of [[Spanish language]]-speaking [[South America]] and what are now the nations of Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, and Uruguay. 
* [[December 20]] &ndash; The [[Uskok War]] begins after the ports of the Holy Roman Empire on the Adriatic Sea are blockaded by the Republic of Venice, which has hired English and Dutch mercenaries.

=== Date unknown ===
* Easter &ndash; Persian [[Safavid dynasty|Safavid]] hordes, led by Shah [[Abbas the Great]], kill all the monks at the [[David Gareja monastery complex]] in [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], and set fire to its collection of manuscripts and works of art.
* [[Mary Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury]], is released from the [[Tower of London]], in recognition of her role in helping to discover the murder of Sir [[Thomas Overbury]].
* The [[Somers Isles Company]] is founded to administer [[Bermuda]].
* [[John Browne (King's Gunfounder)|John Browne]] is created the first ''King's Gunfounder'' in England.
* Austrian merchants receive economic privileges in the [[Ottoman Empire]].
* [[The Perse School]] in [[Cambridge]], England, is founded by Dr [[Stephen Perse]].
* [[Wilson's School]] in [[Wallington, London|Wallington]], near London, is founded by Royal Charter.
* The [[Grolsch Brewery]] is founded in [[Groenlo]], [[Dutch Republic|Netherlands]].
* Konoike Shinroku opens an office in [[Osaka]], and begins shipping tax-rice from western [[Japan]] to Osaka.
* [[Johannes Kepler]] publishes ''Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo'', in response to [[Galileo]]'s discovery of [[Jupiter]]'s moons.<ref>{{cite book|title=Crerar Current|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pv0OAQAAIAAJ|year=1954|page=6}}</ref>
* [[Manuel Dias the Younger|Manuel Dias]], a Portuguese [[Jesuit China missions|Jesuit missionary]], introduces the [[telescope]] for the first time in [[China]], in his book ''Tian Wen Lüe'' (''Explicatio Sphaerae Coelestis'').
* The second volume of [[Miguel de Cervantes]]'s ''[[Don Quixote]] ("El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha")'' is published, and is as successful as the first. ''Don Quixote'' eventually becomes the only truly famous work its author ever writes.</onlyinclude>