Editing 1618 (section)

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 6]]
**[[Jahangir]], ruler of the [[Mughal Empire]] in northern [[India]], gives an audience for the first time to a representative of the [[British East India Company]], receiving [[Sir Thomas Roe]] at the capital at [[Ahmedabad]].
**[[Ben Jonson]]'s play ''[[Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue]]'' is given its premiere performance, presented at the [[Palace of Whitehall]] in [[London]].
* [[January 28]] &ndash; Rules are established for the [[Ōoku]], the section of [[Edo Castle]] that housed the [[Shōgun]]'s [[Queen consort|consort]] and his [[concubinage|concubines]].
* [[February 18]] &ndash; [[Jeong In-hong]] becomes the new [[Yeonguijeong|Chief State Councillor]] (the ''Yeonguijeong'', similar to a Prime Minister) of the Joseon Kingdom in what is now North Korea, after being appointed by the [[Gwanghaegun of Joseon|Emperor Gwanghaegun]].
* [[February 26]] &ndash; [[Osman II]] deposes his uncle [[Mustafa I]] as [[Ottoman sultan]] (until [[1622]]).
* [[March 8]] &ndash; [[Johannes Kepler]] discovers the [[Kepler's laws of planetary motion|third law of planetary motion]] (after some initial calculations, he soon rejects the idea, but on [[May 15]] confirms the discovery).<ref>{{cite book|title=Nuncius|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=agZSAQAAIAAJ|year=2009|publisher=L.S. Olschki|page=359|language=en}}</ref>

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 21]] &ndash; Spanish-born Jesuit missionary [[Pedro Páez]] becomes (probably) the first European to see and describe the source of the [[Blue Nile]] in [[Ethiopia]].<ref>{{cite book|first=E. A. Wallis|last=Budge|authorlink=E. A. Wallis Budge|title=A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia|orig-date=1928|location=Oosterhout|publisher=Anthropological Publications|year=1970|page=397}}</ref>
* [[May 23]] &ndash;  The [[Defenestrations of Prague|Second Defenestration of Prague]] &ndash; Protestant noblemen hold a mock trial, and throw two direct representatives of [[Ferdinand II of Germany]] (Imperial Governors) and their scribe out of a window into a pile of manure, exacerbating a low-key rebellion into the [[Thirty Years' War#1618–1621|Bohemian Revolt (1618–1621)]], precipitating the [[Thirty Years' War]] into armed conflict, and further polarizing Europe on religious grounds.
* [[June 14]] &ndash; Joris Veseler prints the first Dutch newspaper ''[[Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c.]]'' in [[Amsterdam]] (approximate date).

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 1]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor|Ferdinand II]], a proponent of the [[Counter-Reformation]], is crowned as [[King of Hungary]] at a meeting of the Bohemian diet at [[Bratislava|Pressburg]].
* [[July 3]] &ndash; [[Alonso Fajardo de Entenza]] becomes the new Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines.
* [[July 20]] &ndash; [[Pluto]] reaches its second most recent [[aphelion]], according to sophisticated mathematical calculations. The next one occurs in [[1866]], and the following one will occur in [[2113]].
* [[July 31]] &ndash; [[Lenaert Jacobszoon]] and the crew of the [[Dutch East India Company]] ship ''[[Mauritius (1612)|Mauritius]]'' become the first Europeans to sight what is now the Australian state of [[Western Australia]], landing at the North Cape.
* [[August 29]] &ndash; [[Johan van Oldenbarnevelt]] and [[Hugo Grotius]] are imprisoned by [[Maurice, Prince of Orange]].
* [[September 4]] &ndash; Rodi [[avalanche]]: A [[Rockslide|rock]]- or snowslide buries the [[Alps|Alpine]] town of [[Piuro]], claiming 2,427 victims.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The 10 Worst Snow Disasters in History|url=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-10-worst-snow-disaste|date=2004-02-16|journal=[[Scientific American]]|access-date=2012-01-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Today in Switzerland History|url=http://www.historyorb.com/countries/switzerland|work=HistoryOrb|access-date=2012-01-03}}</ref>
* [[September 18]] &ndash; Beginning of the 13th [[Baktun]], in the [[Mesoamerican Long Count calendar]] (12.0.0.0.0).
* [[September 19]] &ndash; The [[Siege of Pilsen]] begins as the first major battle of the [[Thirty Years' War]], as Bohemian Protestants lay siege to the Bohemian Catholic city and lasts for more than two months. 
* [[September 28]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Orynin]] takes place. Polish and Lithuanian Army forces fail to stop an invasion by [[Crimean Tatars]], who then proceed in burning villages in Lithuania and enslaving residents.

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 9]] &ndash; Residents of [[Mogilev]] revolt against [[Uniate]] bishop [[Josaphat Kuntsevych]].
* [[October 29]] &ndash; [[England|English]] adventurer, writer and [[courtier]] Sir [[Walter Raleigh]] is beheaded at the [[Palace of Westminster]], for allegedly conspiring [[treason]]ably against [[James I of England]] in [[1603]], following pressure from the Spanish government, over his attack on their settlement on the [[Orinoco]], on his last ([[1617]]&ndash;18) voyage.
* [[November 13]] &ndash; The [[Synod of Dort]] has its first meeting.
* [[November 21]] &ndash; [[Siege of Pilsen|Pilsen falls to Bohemian Protestants]] led by [[Ernst von Mansfeld]] after more than two months of deprivation of food.
* [[December 11]] &ndash; [[Tsardom of Russia|Russia]] and [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth|Poland]] sign the [[Truce of Deulino]].

=== Date unknown ===
* The margraves of [[Brandenburg]] are granted [[Poland|Polish]] approval to inherit the [[Duchy of Prussia]], creating the state of [[Brandenburg-Prussia]].
* The 3,000 seat [[Teatro Farnese]], the first permanent [[proscenium]] theatre, is built into the Great Hall of the Palazzo della Pilotta in [[Parma]], Italy.
* The [[Ming dynasty|Ming Chinese]] [[embassy]] of the [[Wanli Emperor]] presents [[tea]] to the Russian [[tsar]].</onlyinclude>