1624

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

Events

January–June

• January 14 – After 90 years of Ottoman occupation, the Safavid empire recaptures Baghdad.
• January 24 – Afonso Mendes, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa.
• April 29 - Louis XIII of France appoints Cardinal Richelieu chief minister of the Royal Council.
• May 8 – A Dutch fleet captures Bahia, Brazil from the Spanish.
• 24 May - After years of unprofitable operation, Virginia's charter is revoked and it becomes a royal colony.
• June – The first Dutch settlers arrive in New Netherland; they disembark at Governors Island.
• June 10 – Treaty of Compiègne, signed between France and the Netherlands

July–December

• July or August – Portuguese Jesuit priest António de Andrade becomes the first European to enter Tibet.
• August – The Siege of Breda begins, and will continue for 10 months.
• August 5–14 – The King's Men perform Thomas Middleton's satire A Game at Chess at the Globe Theatre, London, until it is suppressed in view of its allusions to the Spanish Match.
• August 12 – Cardinal Richelieu is appointed by Louis XIII of France to be his first minister.
• Early October – Action of October 1624: A Tuscan/Papal/Neapolitan galley fleet defeats the Algerians near Sardinia.

Date unknown

• Martin Luther's German translation of the Bible is publicly burned by order of the Pope.
• The Netherlands establishes a trading colony at Tainan on Taiwan.
• The Virginia Land Company's charter is revoked and Virginia becomes a crown colony.
• The city of Oslo in Norway is destroyed by fire for the fourteenth time; King Christian IV of Denmark–Norway decrees its rebuilding on a new site where it will be renamed Christiania.
• Jakob Bartsch records the constellation Camelopardalis around the North Star.
• The Palace of Versailles is first built by Louis XIII, as a hunting lodge.
• The Japanese Shogun expels the Spanish from the land and severs trade with the Philippines.
• Mail service begins in Denmark.
• The University of Saint Francis Xavier is founded in Bolivia.
• Henry Briggs publishes Arithmetica Logarithmica.
• The French Parliament passes a decree forbidding criticism of Aristotle on pain of death.^[1]
• 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.
• The city of Dunfermline is destroyed by fire, but The Abbey, The Palace, the The Abbot House and many other buildings survive.
• Frans Hals produces the painting now known as the Laughing Cavalier.^[2]

Births

• January 7 – Guarino Guarini, Italian architect (d. 1683)
• January 9 – Meishō, empress of Japan (d. 1696)
• January 15 – Rombout Verhulst, Dutch sculptor (d. 1698)
• January 16 – Pierre Lambert de la Motte, French bishop (d. 1679)
• January 18 – Thyrsus González de Santalla, Roman Catholic priest (d. 1705)
• January 26 – George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1705)
• January 31 – Arnold Geulincx, Flemish philosopher (d. 1669)
• February 11 – Lambert Doomer, Dutch Golden Age landscape painter (d. 1650)
• February 11 – Ivan Ančić, Croatian theological writer (d. 1685)
• March 12 – Damian Hartard von der Leyen-Hohengeroldseck, Archbishop (d. 1678)
• March 20 – William Jones (deputy governor), English lawyer, became Deputy Governor of Connecticut (d. 1706)
• March 25 – William Pulteney (1624–1691), English Member of Parliament (d. 1691)
• March 31 – Antoine Pagi, French ecclesiastical historian (d. 1699)
• April 4 – François Marie, Prince of Lillebonne, French nobleman and member of the House of Lorraine (d. 1694)
• April 9 – Henrik Rysensteen (d. 1679)
• April 12 – Charles Amadeus, Duke of Nemours (d. 1652)
• April 15 – Pieter Nijs, Dutch Golden Age painter (d. 1681)
• April 20 – Samuel Mearne, English Restoration bookbinder and publisher (d. 1683)
• April 24 – Jan Peeters I, Flemish Baroque painter (d. 1677)
• April 25 – Sir Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Baronet, English Baronet (d. 1669)
• April 26 – Johann Leusden (d. 1699)
• May 23 – William Duckett (MP), English gentleman (d. 1686)
• May 30 – Leopold Frederick, Duke of Württemberg-Montbéliard (d. 1662)
• June 11 – Jean-Baptiste du Hamel, notable French cleric and natural philosopher (d. 1706)
• June 15 – Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (d. 1704)
• June 16 – William Bradford (Plymouth soldier) (d. 1703)
• June 20 – Henry Albin, English minister (d. 1696)
• June 26 – James Scudamore (died 1668), English politician (d. 1668)
• July – George Fox, English founder of the Quakers (d. 1691)
• July 11 – John Collins (Andover MP), English academic and politician (d. 1711)
• July 18 – Francis Pemberton, English judge, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench (d. 1697)
• August 6 – Charles Kerr, 2nd Earl of Ancram, English politician (d. 1690)
• August 11 – John Strode (died 1679), English politician (d. 1679)
• August 22 – Jean Regnault de Segrais, French writer (d. 1701)
• August 23 – Anna Elisabeth of Saxe-Lauenburg, Landgravine consort of Hesse-Homburg (d. 1688)
• August 25 – François de la Chaise, French churchman (d. 1709)
• September 8 – Murad Baksh, Mughal prince (d. 1662)
• September 10 – Thomas Sydenham, English physician (d. 1689)
• September 12 – Wingfield Cromwell, 2nd Earl of Ardglass (d. 1668)
• September 15 – Francesco Provenzale, Italian Baroque composer and teacher (d. 1704)
• October 5 – Gaspar de Witte, painter (d. 1681)
• October 9 – Murad Baksh (d. 1653)
• October 20 – Jan Albertsz Rotius (d. 1666)
• October 21 – Edward Harley (Parliamentarian) (d. 1700)
• October 26 – Dosoftei, Moldavian Metropolitan (d. 1693)
• October 30 – Paul Pellisson, French author (d. 1693)
• November 2 – Sir Thomas Myddelton, 1st Baronet, Welsh politician (d. 1663)
• November 3 – Jean II d'Estrées (d. 1707)
• November 16 – Barent Fabritius, Dutch painter (d. 1673)
• November 28 – Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d'Andilly (d. 1684)
• December 17 – Juriaen Jacobsze, Dutch painter (d. 1685)
• December 18 – John Hull (merchant), merchant and mintmaster of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (d. 1683)
• December 25 – Angelus Silesius, German writer (d. 1677)

Date unknown

• Koxinga, Chinese military leader (d. 1662)
  • Jane Leade, English esotericist (d. 1704)

Deaths

• 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 de Entenza, 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)
  • Shlomyah ben Pinhas, Samaritan High Priest; last of the Phineas bloodline

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