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{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2011}} {{Year dab|1626}} {{Refimprove|date=March 2019}} {{Year nav|1626}} [[File:The Purchase of Manhattan Island.png|thumb|300px|[[May 24]]: [[Peter Minuit]], the Dutch Governor of New Netherlands, purchases [[Manhattan]] Island from the Native American occupiers.]] [[File:Theatrum Europaeum Dessauer Brücke.jpg|thumb|300px|[[April 25]]: The [[Battle of Dessau Bridge]] takes place.]] {{C17 year in topic}} {{Year article header|1626}} == Events == === January–March === * [[January 7]] – [[Polish–Swedish War (1625–1629)|Polish-Swedish War]]: [[Battle of Wallhof]] in [[Latvia]] – [[Gustavus Adolphus]], King of [[Sweden]], defeats a Polish army. * [[January 9]] – [[Peter Minuit]] sails from [[Texel]] Island for America's [[New Netherland]] colony, with two ships of Dutch emigrants. * [[February 2]] – King [[Charles I of England]] is crowned, but without his wife, [[Henrietta Maria]], who declines to participate in a non-Catholic ceremony.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Eugene M. Waith|title=Patterns and Perspectives in English Renaissance Drama|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r46Ze0M0TUwC&pg=PA180|year=1988|publisher=University of Delaware Press|isbn=978-0-87413-325-7|pages=180|language=en}}</ref> * [[February 5]] – The [[Huguenot]] rebels and the French government sign the [[Treaty of Paris (1626)|Treaty of Paris]], ending the second [[Huguenot rebellion]]. * [[February 10]] – [[Battle of Ningyuan]]: In [[Xingcheng]] in [[China]], after an 8-day battle, [[Ming dynasty]] commander [[Yuan Chonghuan]] defeats the much larger force of [[Manchu people|Manchu]] leader [[Nurhaci]], who dies soon after and is succeeded by [[Huang Taiji]]. * [[February 11]] – Emperor [[Susenyos of Ethiopia]] and Patriarch [[Afonso Mendes]] declare the primacy of the Roman See over the [[Ethiopian Church]], and [[Roman Catholicism]] the state religion of [[Ethiopia]]. * [[March 5]] – The [[Treaty of Monzón]] is signed between France and Spain to end the [[Valtellina War]] and the [[First Genoese-Savoyard War]]. * [[March 7]] – [[Ambrósio I of Kongo|Ambrósio I Nimi a Nkanga]] becomes the new monarch of [[Kingdom of Kongo|Kongo]] (in what is now [[Angola]]) after the overthrow of [[Garcia I of Kongo|Garcia I Mvemba a Nkanga]], restoring the Kwilu dynasty to power. * [[March 15]] – Portugal declares war on [[Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba|Queen Nzinga]] of the [[Ndongo|Kingdom of Ndongo]], located in what is now Angola.{{fact|date=March 2025}} A [[dam failure]] causes the sudden [[1626 Potosí flood|flooding of the mining city of Potosí]] in present-day Bolivia leading to the death of thousands and the massive release of toxic [[mercury (element)|mercury]] into the environment.<ref name=frances>{{Cite journal |title=Les ruptures de barrages dans le monde: un nouveau bilan de Potosi (1626, Bolivie) |journal=La Houille Blanche |last=Gioda |first=Alain |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gioda-Alain/publication/279971878_Dam_collapses_in_the_world_A_new_estimation_of_the_Potosi_disaster_1626_Bolivia/links/5c08c2fc4585157ac1ab137c/Dam-collapses-in-the-world-A-new-estimation-of-the-Potosi-disaster-1626-Bolivia.pdf?origin=publication_detail&_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIiwicGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uRG93bmxvYWQiLCJwcmV2aW91c1BhZ2UiOiJwdWJsaWNhdGlvbiJ9fQ&__cf_chl_tk=WAHZbFSO.KE0i8QkGaqGOZhfU5MDzpalYWjMO4mu0VI-1741358538-1.0.1.1-CXkEhP0cZ6WpuD29tqP9XfmEbJNI_MhQzd96DUhbBO4 |pages=165-170 |last2=Serrano |first2=Carlos |last3=Forenza |first3=Ana |trans-title=Dam collapses in the world: a new estimation of the Potosi disaster (1626, Bolivia) |language=French|year=2002|issue=4/5}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Historia de la minería andina boliviana (siglos XVI–XX)|last=Serrano Bravo|first=Carlos|url=https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/6EF6AA797C1749E905257EFF005C493F/$FILE/Historia_de_Miner%C3%ADa_Andina_Boliviana.pdf|year=2004|location=Potosí, Bolivia|language=es|pages=39, 90}}</ref> === April–June === * [[April 25]] – [[Thirty Years' War]]: [[Battle of Dessau Bridge]] – [[Albrecht von Wallenstein]] defeats [[Ernst von Mansfeld]]s army. * [[May 4]] – Peter Minuit becomes director-general of [[New Netherland]], for the [[Dutch West India Company]]. * [[May 24]] – [[Peter Minuit]] buys [[Manhattan]] from a [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] tribe ([[Lenape]] or [[Shinnecock Indian Nation|Shinnecock]]) for trade goods, valued at 60 [[Dutch gulden|guilder]]s (''$1,143 U.S. dollars as of 2020''). * [[May 30]] – [[Wanggongchang Explosion]] in [[Beijing]], China: a gunpowder factory explosion destroys part of the city and kills 20,000 people.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allbestessays.com/History-Other/Solving-a-Mystery-of-400-Years-An-Explanation-to/47238.html|title=Solving a Mystery of 400 Years - An Explanation to the "explosion" in Downtown Beijing in the Year of 1626 - Research Paper|website=www.allbestessays.com|language=en|access-date=2018-09-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180919211340/https://www.allbestessays.com/History-Other/Solving-a-Mystery-of-400-Years-An-Explanation-to/47238.html|archive-date=2018-09-19|url-status=live}}</ref> * [[June 15]] – King [[Charles I of England]] dissolves the English [[Parliament]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Parliament of 1626|website=History of Parliament Online |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/survey/parliament-1626|access-date=2019-03-31}}</ref> * [[June 20]] – Nine Jesuit Christian missionaries, six of them Japanese and three from Spain, are executed in Japan, followed by eight Japanese converts to Christianity on July 12. * [[June 28]] – A [[1626 Lingqiu earthquake|7.0 magnitude earthquake]] strikes [[Lingqiu County]], in [[China]], killing 5,200 residents. === July–September === * [[July 4]] – The Ottoman Army halts its attempt to retake [[Baghdad]] from the Persians, after having lost it in 1624. * [[July 27]] – [[George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt|George II]] becomes the new Landgrave of [[Hesse-Darmstadt]] upon the death of his father, [[Louis V of Hesse-Darmstadt|Louis V]]. * [[August 1]] – [[Eighty Years' War]]: [[Ernst Casimir of Nassau-Dietz]] retakes [[Oldenzaal]], forcing Spain to withdraw from [[Overijssel]]. * [[August 27]] – [[Thirty Years' War]]: [[Battle of Lutter]] – [[Johan Tzerclaes, Count of Tilly|Tilly]] defeats King [[Christian IV of Denmark]]'s army.<ref>{{cite book|author=Theodore Ayrault Dodge|title=Gustavus Adolphus: A History of the Art of War from Its Revival After the Middle Ages to the End of the Spanish Succession War...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ZhDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PT1|year=1890|publisher=Houghton, Mifflin|pages=1|language=en}}</ref> * [[September 30]] – [[Nurhaci]], chief of the [[Jurchens]] and founder of the [[Qing dynasty]], dies and is succeeded by his son [[Hong Taiji]]. === October–December === * [[November 6]] ([[Old Style|O.S.]]) – The ship ''Arms of Amsterdam'' arrives in [[Europe]] from [[New Netherland]] (left [[September 23]]) with the news: "They have purchased the Island Manhattes [''[[Manhattan]]''] from the Indians for the value of 60 guilders."<ref>From P. Schagen letter dated [[November 7]].</ref> * [[November 18]] – The new [[St Peter's Basilica]] in the [[Vatican City|Vatican]] is consecrated, on the 1,300th anniversary of the previous church in [[326]]. * [[December 1]] – [[Pasha]] Muhammad ibn Farukh, tyrannical Governor of [[Jerusalem]], is forced out. * [[December 20]] – [[Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor]] and [[Transylvania]]n monarch [[Bethlen Gabor]] sign the [[Peace of Pressburg (1626)|Peace of Pressburg]]. === Date unknown === * [[1626 influenza pandemic]] begins in Asia, then spreads into Europe, Africa, North America,<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Sen|first=Rajendra Kumar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MdUSAQAAMAAJ&q=influenza+of+1627|title=A Treatise on Influenza: With Special Reference to the Pandemic of 1918|date=1923|publisher=|isbn=|location=|pages=7|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=|first=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2M_nAAAAMAAJ&q=1626+influenza+pandemic|title=Annals of Medical History|date=1933|publisher=P.B. Hoeber.|isbn=|location=|pages=537|language=en}}</ref> and South America.<ref name=":0" /> * The [[Würzburg witch trials|Würzburg]] and [[Bamberg witch trials]], which will lead to the mass executions of hundreds of people until [[1630]]/[[1631|31]], begin. * [[Samuel de Champlain]] decides to build ''Cap tourmente (Kap toor-mont) Farm'' to raise livestock to provide food for settlers in [[Quebec]], rather than depending on supplies sent from France.<ref>Champlain describes the construction in one of his journals.</ref> * Establishment of the coastal settlement of [[Salem, Massachusetts]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Rantoul |first1=Robert S. |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5479/sil.81485.39088002108736 |title=Old-time ships of Salem |last2=Chapman |first2=William O. |date=1922 |publisher=Essex Institute|doi=10.5479/sil.81485.39088002108736 }}</ref> == Births == [[File:Marquise de Sévigné.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné]]]] [[File:Hennepin.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Louis Hennepin]]]] [[File:Richard Ottley.JPG|thumb|right|110px|[[Richard Ottley]]]] === January–March === * [[January 9]] – [[Armand Jean le Bouthillier de Rancé]], French founder of the Trappist Order (d. [[1700]]) * [[January 13]] – [[Johann Philipp of Hanau-Lichtenberg]], German nobleman (d. [[1669]]) * [[January 25]] – [[Edward Evelyn (politician)|Edward Evelyn]], British politician (d. [[1692]]) * [[February 5]] – [[Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné]], French aristocrat and writer (d. [[1696]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Chevalier | first = Tracy | title = Encyclopedia of the essay | publisher = Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers | location = London Chicago | year = 1997 | isbn = 9781884964305 | page=764}}</ref> * [[February 7]] – [[Fabian von Fersen]], Swedish soldier and statesman (d. [[1677]]) * [[February 18]] – [[Francesco Redi]], Italian physician (d. [[1697]]) * [[March 3]] – [[John Hele (died 1661)|John Hele]], English politician (d. [[1661]]) * [[March 9]] – [[Lorentz Mortensen Angell]], Norwegian merchant and landowner (d. [[1697]]) * [[March 10]] – [[Cornelis Van Caukercken]], Flemish engraver, printseller (d. [[1680]]) * [[March 12]] – [[John Aubrey]], English antiquary and writer (d. [[1697]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Britton|title=A Memoir of John Aubrey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5YDsAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA24|date=28 August 2014|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-07344-8|pages=24}}</ref> * [[March 16]] – [[Cornelius Van Steenwyk]], American politician (d. [[1684]]) * [[March 21]] – [[Peter of Saint Joseph Betancur]], Spanish Catholic saint, missionary to Guatemala (d. [[1667]]) * [[March 30]] – [[Atto Melani]], Italian opera singer (d. [[1714]]) === April–June === * [[April 16]] – [[Robert Harley (died 1673)|Robert Harley]], English politician (d. [[1673]])<ref>{{cite book|author=[[Brilliana Harley]]|title=Letters of the Lady Brilliana Harley, Wife of Sir Robert Harley, of Brampton Bryan, Knight of the Bath|publisher=Camden Society|year=1854|page=xx}}</ref> * [[April 10]] – [[Franz Egon of Fürstenberg]], German count in the Holy Roman Empire (d. [[1682]]) * [[April 23]] – [[Maurice Henry, Prince of Nassau-Hadamar]] (1653–1679) (d. [[1679]]) * [[April 25]] – [[Sigmund von Birken]], German Baroque poet (d. [[1681]]) * [[May 10]] – [[Jan Jacobszoon Hinlopen]], Dutch art collector and merchant (d. [[1666]]) * [[May 12]] – [[Louis Hennepin]], Roman Catholic priest, missionary of the Franciscan Recollet Order (French (d. [[1704]]) * [[May 14]] – [[Willem Joseph van Ghent]], Dutch admiral (d. [[1672]]) * [[May 16]] – [[Andrea Carlone]], Italian painter (d. [[1697]]) * [[May 17]] – [[Countess Palatine Eleonora Catherine of Zweibrücken]], sister of King Charles X of Sweden (d. [[1692]]) * [[May 21]] – [[Wolfgang Carl Briegel]], German organist and composer (d. [[1712]]) * [[May 27]] – [[William II, Prince of Orange]] (d. [[1650]]) * [[June 8]] – [[William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford]], member of England's House of Lords (d. [[1695]]) * [[June 9]] – [[Sir John Newton, 2nd Baronet]], English Member of Parliament (d. [[1699]]) * [[June 18]] – [[John Mordaunt, 1st Viscount Mordaunt]], English politician (d. [[1675]]) * [[June 29]] – [[Jeffrey Daniel (MP)|Jeffrey Daniel]], English politician (d. [[1681]]) === July–September === * [[July 15]] ** [[Christiane Sehested]], daughter of King Christian IV of Denmark, and his [[Morganatic marriage|morganatic spouse]] Kirsten Munk (d. [[1670]]) ** [[Hedevig Ulfeldt]], daughter of King Christian IV of Denmark and Kirsten Munk (d. [[1678]]) * [[July 17]] – [[Henriette Marie of the Palatinate]], German noble (d. [[1651]]) * [[August 1]] ** [[Charles le Moyne de Longueuil et de Châteauguay]], French colonist, interpreter (d. [[1685]]) ** [[Sabbatai Zevi]], Sephardic Rabbi (d. [[1676]]) * [[August 5]] – [[Richard Ottley]], English politician (d. [[1670]]) * [[August 12]] – [[Giovanni Legrenzi]], Italian composer (d. [[1690]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=David Mason Greene|author2=Constance Green|title=Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m3S7PIxe0mwC&pg=PA140|year=1985|publisher=Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd.|isbn=978-0-385-14278-6|pages=140|language=en}}</ref> * [[September 7]] – [[Maria Klara of Dietrichstein]], German noblewoman (d. [[1667]]) * [[September 16]] – [[Leopold Wilhelm of Baden-Baden]], Imperial Field Marshal (d. [[1671]]) * [[September 27]] – [[William Douglas, 2nd Lord Mordington]], eldest son and heir of Sir James Douglas (d. [[1671]]) * [[September 28]] – [[Elizabeth Maitland, Duchess of Lauderdale]], influential British noblewoman (d. [[1698]]) === October–December === * [[October 4]] – [[Richard Cromwell]], Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (d. [[1712]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert William Ramsey|title=Richard Cromwell: Protector of England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qotmAAAAMAAJ|year=1935|publisher=Longmans, Green|page=3|language=en}}</ref> * [[October 5]] – [[George II, Duke of Württemberg-Montbéliard]] (1662–1699) (d. [[1699]]) * [[October 17]] – [[Samuel Danforth]], American Puritan minister, preacher, poet, astronomer, missionary (d. [[1674]]) * [[October 23]] – [[Francis Marsh]], Irish bishop (d. [[1693]]) * [[November 8]] ** [[Matthew Marvin, Jr.]], Connecticut settler (d. [[1712]]) ** [[César-Pierre Richelet]], French grammarian and lexicographer (d. [[1698]]) * [[November 30]] – [[Cesare Pronti]], Italian painter (d. [[1708]]) * [[December 8]] – Queen [[Christina of Sweden]] (d. [[1689]]) * [[December 10]] – [[George Christian, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg]] (1669–1671) (d. [[1677]]) * [[December 12]] – [[Giovanni Francesco Ginetti]], nephew of Cardinal Marzio Ginetti (d. [[1691]]) * [[December 18]] – [[William Stanhope (1626–1703)|William Stanhope]], English politician (d. [[1703]]) * [[December 20]] – [[Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff]], German statesman (d. [[1692]]) * [[December 21]] – [[Francis Scott, 2nd Earl of Buccleuch]], son of Walter Scott (d. [[1651]]) * [[December 31]] – [[Ladislaus, Count Esterházy]], Hungarian noble (d. [[1652]]) == Deaths == [[File:Somer Francis Bacon.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Francis Bacon]] died [[9 April]]]] [[File:Portrait of Isabella Brant by Peter Paul Rubens.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Isabella Brant]] died [[15 July]]]] [[File:Beato Antonio Franco.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Antonio Franco (blessed)]] died [[2 September]]]] [[File:清 佚名 《清太祖天命皇帝朝服像》.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Nurhaci]] died [[30 September]]]] [[File:Zrínyi György Pollák.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Juraj V Zrinski]] died [[28 December]]]] * [[January 2]] – [[Maria Buynosova-Rostovskaya]] (b. [[1590]]) * [[January 19]] – [[Ruqaiya Sultan Begum]] (b. [[1542]]) * [[January 23]] – [[Decio Carafa]], Archbishop of Naples who had previously served as papal nuncio to the Spanish Netherlands (1606–1607) and to Habsburg Spain (1607–1611) (b. [[1556]]) * [[January 24]] – [[Samuel Argall]], English adventurer and naval officer (b. [[1580]]) * c. January? – [[Patrick Galloway]], Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (b. c. [[1551]]) * [[February 7]] – [[William V, Duke of Bavaria]] (b. [[1548]]) * [[February 11]] – [[Pietro Cataldi]], Italian mathematician (b. [[1552]]) * [[February 20]] – [[John Dowland]], English composer and lutenist (b. [[1563]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Diana Poulton|title=John Dowland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gM4ikvRR4Z0C&pg=PA88|date=1 January 1982|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-04649-8|pages=88}}</ref> * [[February 21]] – [[Odoardo Farnese (cardinal)|Odoardo Farnese]], Italian Catholic cardinal (b. [[1573]]) * [[March 3]] – [[William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire]], England (b. [[1552]]) * [[March 10]] – [[John Dormer (of Dorton)|John Dormer]], English Member of Parliament (b. [[1556]]) * [[March 19]] – [[Pierre Coton]], French Jesuit and royal confessor (b. [[1564]]) * [[April 5]] – [[Anna Koltovskaya]] (b. c. [[1552]]) * [[April 9]] – [[Francis Bacon]], English scientist and statesman (b. [[1561]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Francis Bacon {{!}} Biography, Philosophy, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francis-Bacon-Viscount-Saint-Alban |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=31 March 2019 |language=en}}</ref> * [[April 11]] – [[Marino Ghetaldi]], Croatian mathematician and physicist (b. [[1568]]) * [[May 4]] – [[Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells]], English bishop, Bible translator (b. [[1569]]) * [[May 17]] – [[Joan Pau Pujol]], Catalan composer (b. [[1570]]) * [[May 28]] – [[Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk]] (b. [[1561]])<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Howard, Thomas (1561-1626)}}</ref> * [[June 7]] – [[Anne of Saint Bartholomew]], Spanish Discalced Carmelite nun (b. [[1550]]) * [[June 16]] ** [[Albert, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg]], joint ruler of Nassau-Dillenburg 1623–1626 (b. [[1596]]) ** [[Christian the Younger|Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel]], German Protestant military leader (b. [[1599]]) * [[June 29]] – [[Scipione Cobelluzzi]], Italian cardinal and archivist (b. [[1564]]) * [[June 30]] – [[Honda Tadatoki]] (b. [[1596]]) * [[July 13]] – [[Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester]], English statesman (b. [[1563]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Hay | first = Millicent | title = The life of Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester (1563-1626 | publisher = Folger Shakespeare Library | location = Washington D.C | year = 1984 | isbn = 9780918016706 | page=229}}</ref> * [[July 15]] – [[Isabella Brant]], Flemish artists' model, first wife of painter Peter Paul Rubens (b. [[1591]]) * [[July 19]] – [[Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel]], German regent (b. [[1573]]) * [[July 27]] – [[Louis V, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt]] (b. [[1577]]) * [[August 13]] – [[Maria of Brunswick-Lüneburg]], Duchess Consort of Saxe-Lauenburg (1582–1619) (b. [[1566]]) * [[August 15]] – [[Girolamo Asteo]], Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Veroli (1608–1626) (b. [[1562]]) * [[August 23]] – [[Francesco Cereo de Mayda]], Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Lavello (1621–1626) (b. [[1568]]) * [[August 25]] – [[Alfonso Pozzi]], Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Borgo San Donnino (1620–1626) (b. [[1582]]) * [[August 28]] – [[Isabella of Savoy]], Italian noble (b. [[1591]]) * [[September 2]] – [[Antonio Franco (bishop)|Antonio Franco]], Italian Catholic bishop, prelate of Santa Lucia del Mela (b. [[1585]]) * [[September 16]] – [[Denis-Simon de Marquemont]], French cardinal and archbishop (b. [[1572]]) * [[September 17]] – [[Johann Schweikhard von Kronberg]], Archbishop-Elector of Mainz from 1604 to 1626 (b. [[1553]]) * [[September 21]] – [[François de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguières]], Constable of France (b. [[1543]]) * [[September 22]] – [[Aodh Mac Cathmhaoil]], Irish Franciscan theologian and Archbishop of Armagh (b. [[1571]]) * [[September 25]] – [[Lancelot Andrewes]], English scholar (b. [[1555]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Leonie James|title='This Great Firebrand': William Laud and Scotland, 1617-1645|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A7Q4DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA32|year=2017|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|isbn=978-1-78327-219-8|pages=32}}</ref> * [[September 26]] – [[Wakisaka Yasuharu]], Japanese warrior (b. [[1554]]) * [[September 30]] – [[Nurhaci]], Chinese chieftain (b. [[1559]]) * [[October 1]] – [[Lady Abahai]] (b. [[1590]]) * [[October 2]] – [[Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, 1st Count of Gondomar]], Spanish diplomat (b. [[1567]]) * [[October 10]] ** [[William Hockmere]], English politician (b. [[1581]]) ** [[Abraham Schadaeus]], German music editor (b. [[1566]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|last=Riemer|first=Otto|title=Schadaeus, Abraham|encyclopedia=[[Grove Music Online]]|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]}}</ref> * [[October 13]] – [[Domingo de Oña]], Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Gaeta (1605–1626) (b. [[1560]]) * [[October 28]] – [[Muhammad Parviz]], Mughal emperor (b. [[1589]]) * [[October 29]] – [[Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua]], Italian Catholic cardinal (b. [[1587]]) * [[October 30]] – [[Willebrord Snell]], Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. [[1580]]) * [[November 21]] – [[Anna Maria of Hesse-Kassel]], countess consort of Nassau-Saarbrücke (b. [[1567]]) * [[November 25]] – [[Edward Alleyn]], English actor (b. [[1566]]) * [[November 29]] – [[Ernst von Mansfeld]], German soldier (b. c. [[1580]]) * [[December 6]] – [[John Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar]], German duke (b. [[1594]]) * [[December 8]] – [[John Davies (poet, born 1569)|John Davies]], English poet and politician (b. [[1569]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/davies-john-1569-1626|title=Davies, John (1569-1626), of the Middle Temple, London and Englefield, Berks.|website=History of Parliament online|access-date=5 August 2021|language=en}}</ref> * [[December 10]] – [[Edmund Gunter]], English mathematician (b. [[1581]]) * [[December 28]] ** [[Gábor Esterházy (1580–1626)]], Hungarian noble (b. [[1580]]) ** [[Juraj V Zrinski]], Ban of Croatia (b. [[1599]]) == References == {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:1626}} [[Category:1626| ]]
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