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{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2011}} {{Year dab|1618|the bill proposed in USA in 1998|Bill 1618}} {{Year nav|1618}} [[File:Prager.Fenstersturz.1618.jpg|thumb|300px|[[May 23]]: [[Defenestrations of Prague|The Second Defenestration of Prague takes place]]]] {{C17 year in topic}} [[File:Thirty Years War Collage.jpg|thumb|The [[Thirty Years' War]] begins.]] [[File:Siege of Pilsen.jpg|thumbnail|right| [[September 19]]–[[November 21]]: [[Siege of Pilsen]]]] {{Year article header|1618}} == Events == <onlyinclude> === January–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]] – 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]] – [[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]] – [[Osman II]] deposes his uncle [[Mustafa I]] as [[Ottoman sultan]] (until [[1622]]). * [[March 8]] – [[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–June === * [[April 21]] – 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]] – The [[Defenestrations of Prague|Second Defenestration of Prague]] – 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]] – Joris Veseler prints the first Dutch newspaper ''[[Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c.]]'' in [[Amsterdam]] (approximate date). === July–September === * [[July 1]] – [[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]] – [[Alonso Fajardo de Entenza]] becomes the new Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines. * [[July 20]] – [[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]] – [[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]] – [[Johan van Oldenbarnevelt]] and [[Hugo Grotius]] are imprisoned by [[Maurice, Prince of Orange]]. * [[September 4]] – 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]] – Beginning of the 13th [[Baktun]], in the [[Mesoamerican Long Count calendar]] (12.0.0.0.0). * [[September 19]] – 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]] – 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–December === * [[October 9]] – Residents of [[Mogilev]] revolt against [[Uniate]] bishop [[Josaphat Kuntsevych]]. * [[October 29]] – [[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]]–18) voyage. * [[November 13]] – The [[Synod of Dort]] has its first meeting. * [[November 21]] – [[Siege of Pilsen|Pilsen falls to Bohemian Protestants]] led by [[Ernst von Mansfeld]] after more than two months of deprivation of food. * [[December 11]] – [[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> == Births == [[File:Jan Six - Rembrandt.jpg|110px|thumbnail|right|[[Jan Six]]]] [[File:Peter Lely Selfportrait.jpg|110px|thumbnail|right|Sir [[Peter Lely]]]] [[File:The Emperor Aurangzeb on Horseback ca. 1690–1710 The Cleveland Museum of Art.jpg|110px|thumbnail|right|[[Aurangzeb]]]] === January–March === * [[January 1]] ''(bapt.)'' – [[Bartolomé Esteban Murillo]], Spanish painter (d. [[1682]]) * [[January 2]] – [[Jean Hamon (doctor)|Jean Hamon]], French doctor and writer (d. [[1687]]) * [[January 3]] – [[Jean Crasset]], French Jesuit theologian (d. [[1692]]) * [[January 8]] – [[Madeleine Béjart]], French actress and theatre director (d. [[1672]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor|title=Molière: A Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wJkrAAAAMAAJ|year=1906|publisher=Duffield|page=409}}</ref> * [[January 14]] – [[Jan Six]], important cultural figure in the Dutch Golden Age (d. [[1700]]) * [[January 25]] – [[Nicolaes Visscher I]], Dutch engraver, cartographer and publisher (d. [[1679]]) * [[January 28]] – [[James Ley, 3rd Earl of Marlborough]], English nobleman, sailor, and mathematician (d. [[1665]]) * [[January 29]] – [[Jean Paul Médaille]], French Jesuit missionary (d. [[1689]]) * [[February 12]] – [[Olaus Verelius]], scholar of Old Norse and Scandinavian studies (d. [[1682]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The English Cyclopædia: A New Dictionary of Universal Knowledge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e7hCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA317|year=1858|publisher=Bradbury and Evans|pages=317}}</ref> * [[February 17]] – [[Matthias Abele]], Austrian jurist, mine official (d. [[1677]]) * [[February 19]] – [[Johannes Phocylides Holwarda]], Dutch astronomer (d. [[1651]]) * [[March 4]] – [[George Louis, Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg]], German noble (d. [[1656]]) * [[March 14]] – [[Nadira Banu Begum]], Mughal princess (d. [[1659]]) * [[March 19]] – [[Thomas Hinckley]], last colonial governor of Plymouth Colony (d. [[1706]]) === April–June === * [[April 2]] – [[Francesco Maria Grimaldi]], Italian mathematician and physicist (d. [[1663]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Isaac Asimov|title=Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology: The Lives and Achievements of 1195 Great Scientists from Ancient Times to the Present Chronologically Arranged|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ADjYAAAAMAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Avon Books|isbn=978-0-380-00619-9|pages=174–5|language=en}}</ref> * [[April 4]] – [[Ferrante III Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla]], Italian noble (d. [[1678]]) * [[April 9]] – [[Christian, Duke of Brieg]], Duke of Legnica (1663–1672) and Brieg (1664–1672) (d. [[1672]]) * [[April 13]] – [[Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy]], French writer (d. [[1693]]) * [[April 14]] – [[Thomas Moore (died 1695)|Thomas Moore]], English politician (d. [[1695]])<ref>[http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/moore-thomas-1618-95 History of Parliament Online - Moore, Thomas]</ref> * [[April 29]] – [[Vittoria Farnese d'Este]], Duchess of Modena and Reggio (d. [[1649]]) * [[May 22]] – [[Henrik Horn]], Swedish military leader and noble (d. [[1693]]) * [[June 1]] – [[Johann Franck]], German poet and hymnist (d. [[1677]]) * [[June 15]] ** [[François Blondel]], French architect (d. [[1686]]) ** [[Ippolito Lante Montefeltro della Rovere]], Italian nobleman and Duke of Bomarzo (d. [[1688]]) * [[June 24]] – [[Philip Packer]], British barrister and architect (d. [[1686]]) * [[June 28]] – [[Jean Le Pautre]], French designer and engraver (d. [[1682]]) === July–September === * [[July 6]] – [[Alexander Lindsay, 1st Earl of Balcarres]], Scottish politician and noble (d. [[1659]])<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Lindsay, Alexander (1618-1659)}}</ref> * [[July 17]] ** [[Willem Ogier]], Flemish playwright (d. [[1689]]) ** [[George Stewart, 9th Seigneur d'Aubigny]], Scottish nobleman and military commander (d. [[1642]]) * [[July 21]] – [[Hayashi Gahō]], Japanese philosopher (d. [[1688]]) * [[July 22]] – [[Johan Nieuhof]], Dutch traveler who wrote about his journeys to Brazil (d. [[1672]]) * [[September 6]] – [[Walter Hoyt]], Connecticut settler (d. [[1698]]) * [[September 9]] – [[Joan Cererols]], Catalan musician and Benedictine monk (d. [[1680]]) * [[September 11]] – [[Francesco Grue]], Italian artist (d. [[1673]]) * [[September 14]] – [[Peter Lely]], Dutch painter (d. [[1680]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)|author2=Oliver Millar|title=Sir Peter Lely, 1618-80|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xHRHAQAAIAAJ|year=1979|page=9|publisher=National Portrait Gallery |isbn=9780904017250 |language=en}}</ref> * [[September 27]] – [[Jacob Alting]], Dutch linguist (d. [[1679]]) * [[September 29]] – [[Michiel Sweerts]], Flemish painter (d. [[1664]]) === October–December === * [[October 8]] – [[Claude Lamoral, 3rd Prince of Ligne]], Spanish general and prince (d. [[1679]]) * [[October 7]] – [[Rosina Schnorr]], German businessperson (d. [[1679]]) * [[October 31]] – [[Mariana de Jesús de Paredes]], Catholic saint, the first person to be canonized from Ecuador (d. [[1645]]) * [[November]] – [[Simon Arnauld, Marquis de Pomponne]], French diplomat and minister of [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]] (d. [[1699]]) * [[November 1]] – [[Sir John Wittewrong, 1st Baronet]], English parliamentarian (d. [[1693]]) * [[November 3]] – [[Aurangzeb]], [[Mughal emperor]] of India (d. [[1707]]) * [[November 8]] – [[Louise de La Fayette]], French courtier, friend of King Louis XIII (d. [[1665]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=Collective Biographies of Women |url=http://cbw.iath.virginia.edu/women_display.php?id=21437?/women_display.php?id=21437 |access-date=2024-06-05 |website=cbw.iath.virginia.edu}}</ref> * [[November 12]] – [[Gottfried Welsch]], German physician (d. [[1690]]) * [[November 16]] – [[Johann Ludwig Schönleben]], Carniolan priest (d. [[1681]]) * [[November 26]] – [[Johan Frederik von Marschalck]], German-born landowner, Chancellor of Norway (d. [[1679]]) * [[December 2]] ** [[Edward Bayntun (died 1679)|Edward Bayntun]], English politician (d. [[1679]]) ** [[Nicholas Delves]], English politician (d. [[1690]]) * [[December 3]] – [[Sir William Ayloffe, 3rd Baronet]], officer in the Royalist army during the English Civil War (d. [[1662]]) * [[December 18]] – [[Karl Kaspar von der Leyen]], German Catholic archbishop (d. [[1676]]) * [[December 26]] – [[Elisabeth of the Palatinate]], German princess, philosopher, and Calvinist (d. [[1680]]) * [[December 28]] – [[Catharina Hooft]], noblewoman of the Dutch Golden Age (d. [[1691]])<ref>Graeff, P. de (P. de Graeff Gerritsz en [[Dirk de Graeff van Polsbroek]]) ''Genealogie van de familie De Graeff van Polsbroek'', Amsterdam 1882.</ref> ===Date unknown=== * [[Athittayawong]], Ayutthayan monarch (d. [[1629]]) * [[Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington]], English politician (member of the [[Cabal]]) d. [[1685]]) == Deaths == [[File:PhilippII.1678.JPG|thumb|right|110px|[[Philip II, Duke of Pomerania]]]] [[File:MmeAcarie.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Marie of the Incarnation (Carmelite)]]]] [[File:Nicolò Rusca.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Nicolò Rusca]]]] [[File:AlbrechtFriedrichPreußen.1612.JPG|thumb|right|110px|[[Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia]]]] [[File:Jakob Rem S.J., Votivbild 1850.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Jakob Rem]]]] === January–March === * [[January 6]] – [[Margherita Gonzaga, Duchess of Ferrara]] (b. [[1564]]) * [[January 19]] – [[Jacobus Zaffius]], Dutch Catholic provost (b. [[1535]]) * [[January 24]] – [[Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham]], English peer and traitor (b. [[1564]]) * [[January 29]] – [[John Dackombe]], Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. [[1570]]) * [[February 3]] – [[Philip II, Duke of Pomerania]]-Stettin (b. [[1573]]) * [[February 10]] – [[Feliks Kryski]], Grand Chancellor of Poland (b. [[1562]]) * [[February 14]] – [[Paolo Emilio Sfondrati]], Italian Catholic cardinal (b. [[1560]]) * [[February 20]] – [[Philip William, Prince of Orange]], eldest son of William the Silent, by his first wife Anna van Egmont (b. [[1554]]) * [[February 25]] – [[Elizabeth Spencer, Baroness Hunsdon]], English baroness (b. [[1552]]) * [[February 27]] – [[Anne Lyon, Countess of Kinghorne]], Scottish countess (b. [[1579]]) * [[March 5]] ** [[John, Duke of Östergötland]] (b. [[1589]]) ** [[Countess Palatine Barbara of Zweibrücken-Neuburg]] and by marriage Countess of Oettingen-Oettingen (b. [[1559]]) * [[March 16]] – [[Giovanni Bembo]], Doge of Venice (b. [[1543]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Alvise Zorzi|title=Venice, the Golden Age, 697-1797|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IP5OAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Abbeville Press|isbn=978-0-89659-406-7|page=259}}</ref> * [[March 23]] – [[James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn]], Scottish politician (b. c. [[1575]]) * [[March 26]] – [[Frederick Magnus, Count of Erbach-Fürstenau]] (1606–1618) (b. [[1575]]) * [[March 31]] – [[Pedro Cornejo de Pedrosa]], Spanish theologian (b. [[1536]]) === April–June === * April – [[Chief Powhatan]] (proper name Wahunsenacawh), Algonquin (indigenous American) leader, father of [[Pocahontas]] (b. c. [[1547]]) * [[April 5]] – [[Robert Barker (MP for Colchester)|Robert Barker]], English politician (b. [[1563]]) * [[April 14]] – [[Giovanni Battista Zuccato]], Italian Catholic prelate, Bishop of Nusco (1607–1614) (b. [[1543]]) * [[April 18]] – [[Marie of the Incarnation (Carmelite)|Marie of the Incarnation]], Carmelite (b. [[1566]]) * [[May 9]] – [[Nicolò Donato]], Doge of Venice (b. [[1539]]) * [[May 24]] – [[John George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau]] (1603–1618) (b. [[1567]]) * [[May 31]] – [[Sabina Catharina of East Frisia]], Countess of Rietberg (1586–1618) (b. [[1582]]) * [[June 7]] – [[Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr]], English Governor of Virginia (b. [[1577]]) * [[June 21]] – [[Kasper Hassler]], German musician (b. [[1562]]) === July–September === * [[July 20]] – [[James Montague (bishop)|James Montague]], British bishop (b. [[1568]]) * [[July 24]] – [[Nicolò Rusca]], Italian priest who served in Como (b. [[1563]]) * [[July 26]] – [[Martinus Smiglecius]], Polish philosopher (b. [[1564]]) * [[August 7]] – [[Princess Maria Elizabeth of Sweden]], Swedish princess (b. [[1596]]) * [[August 23]] – [[Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero]], Dutch writer (b. [[1585]]) * [[August 28]] – [[Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia]] (b. [[1553]]) * [[September 3]] – [[Frederik van den Bergh (1559–1618)|Frederik van den Bergh]], Dutch soldier in the [[Eighty Years' War]] (b. [[1559]]) * [[September 28]] – [[Joshua Sylvester]], English poet (b. [[1563]]) === October–December === [[File:Execution of Sir Walter Raleigh.jpg|150px|thumb|Sir Walter Raleigh]] * [[October 12]] – [[Jakob Rem]], Austrian Jesuit (b. [[1546]]) * [[October 24]] – [[Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1567–1618)|Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel]], German noblewoman (b. [[1567]]) * [[October 29]] – Sir [[Walter Raleigh]], English soldier, politician, courtier, explorer, Virginia settler, historian, poet and spy (executed) (b. [[1552]] of 1554)<ref>{{cite book|author=Hilary Aidan St. George Saunders|title=Westminster Hall|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ff4gAAAAMAAJ|year=1951|publisher=M. Joseph|isbn=978-7-250-01065-2|page=146|language=en}}</ref> * [[October 30]] ** [[Charles, Margrave of Burgau]], German nobleman (b. [[1560]]) ** [[Prospero Farinacci]], Italian jurist (b. [[1554]]) * [[November 2]] – [[Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria]] (b. [[1558]]) * [[November 14]] – [[Anna Maria of Brandenburg]], Duchess Consort of Pomerania (b. [[1567]]) * [[December 6]] – [[Jacques Davy Duperron]], French cardinal (b. [[1556]]) * [[December 7]] – [[Bernardo de Sandoval y Rojas]], Spanish Catholic cardinal, [[Grand Inquisitor]] (b. [[1546]]) * [[December 9]] – [[Valentine Knightley (died 1618)|Valentine Knightley]], English politician (b. [[1555]]) * [[December 10]] – [[Giulio Caccini]], Italian composer (b. [[1551]])<ref>{{cite book|author=David Ewen|title=Great Composers, 1300-1900: A Biographical and Critical Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qSV4pmLs-9EC|year=1966|publisher=H. W. Wilson Company|isbn=978-0-8242-0018-3|page=75|language=en}}</ref> * [[December 14]] – [[Anna of Tyrol]], Holy Roman Empress (b. [[1585]]) * [[December 17]] – [[Roger Puleston]], Welsh politician (b. [[1565]])<ref>{{cite book|author=George Owen|title=The Description of Penbrokshire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GC1FAQAAMAAJ|year=1936|publisher=C. J. Clark|page=577|language=en}}</ref> ===Date unknown=== * [[Ebba Bielke]], Swedish baroness and conspirator (b. [[1570]]) *[[Christina Rauscher]], German official and critic of witchcraft persecutions (b. [[1570]]) == References == {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:1618}} [[Category:1618| ]]
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