1624

Centuries:	16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades:	1590s 1600s 1610s - 1620s - 1630s 1640s 1650s
Years:	1621 1622 1623 - 1624 - 1625 1626 1627

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Year 1624 (MDCXXIV) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

[edit] Events of 1624

January 24 - Alfonso Mendez, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa.

August - The Siege of Breda begins, and will continue for 11 months.
October (start) - A Tuscan/Papal/Neapolitan force defeats the Algerians near Sardinia (details).

Martin Luther's German translation of the Bible is publicly burned by order of the Pope.
The Netherlands establishes a trading colony at Kaohsiung on Taiwan.
Thirty Walloon families settle in the New Netherland colony.
The Virginia Land Company's charter is revoked and Virginia becomes a crown colony.
Oslo is destroyed by fire: when rebuilt by Christian IV, it will be renamed Christiania.
Jakob Bartsch records the constellation Camelopardalis around the north star.
The Palace of Versailles is first built, as a hunting lodge.
The Dutch city of Ommen is devastated by fire.
The Japanese Shogun expels the Spanish from the land and severs trade with the Philippines.
Mail service begins in Denmark.
A university is founded in Bolivia.
Cornelius Drebbel first discovers gases.
Cardinal Richelieu is appointed by Louis XIII to be his advisor.
Henry Briggs publishes Arithmetica Logarithmica.
The French Parliament passes a decree forbidding criticism of Aristotle on pain of death.
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

See also Category:1624 births.

February 12 - George Heriot, Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist (b. 1563)
February 13 - Stephen Gosson, English satirist (b. 1554)
February 17 - Juan de Mariana, Spanish historian (b. 1536)
July - Alonso Fajardo y Tenza, governor of the Philippines
November 10 - Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (b. 1573)
November 17 - Jakob Böhme, German mystic (b. 1575)
December 5 - Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (b. 1560)
December 14 - Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English statesman (b. 1536)
December 26 - Simon Marius, German astronomer (b. 1573)
date unknown
- Francesco Andreini, Italian actor (b. c. 1548)