Explore 152 historical events from 1610–1619.
Pope Alexander VIII, born Pietro Vito Ottoboni, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 October 1689 to his death in February 1691. He is the most rece…
Pope Alexander VIII (died 1691)
Tomás Sánchez was a 16th-century Spanish Jesuit and famous casuist.
Thomas Sanchez, Spanish priest and theologian (born 1550)
Henry IV, also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first monarch of France from…
Henry IV of France is assassinated by Catholic zealot François Ravaillac, and Louis XIII ascends the throne
The Treaty of Loudun was signed on 3 May 1616 in Loudun, France, and ended the war that originally began as a power struggle between Queen Mother Marie de Medici's favorite Concino…
Treaty of Loudun ends a French civil war
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is oft…
William Shakespeare, English playwright and poet (born 1564)
Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck was a Dutch merchant and colonial administrator who served as the first Commander of the Cape from 1652 to 1662.
Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch founder of Cape Town (died 1677)
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Heer van Berkel en Rodenrijs (1600), Gunterstein (1611) and Bakkum (1613), was a Dutch statesman and revolutionary who played an important role in the Dut…
Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after being convicted of treason
John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale was a Scottish statesman.
John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale, Scottish politician, Secretary of State, Scotland (died 1682)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. He is best known for …
Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (born 1547)
Girolamo Fabrici d'Acquapendente, also known as Girolamo Fabrizio or Hieronymus Fabricius, was a pioneering anatomist and surgeon known in medical science as "The Father of Embryol…
Hieronymus Fabricius, Italian anatomist (born 1537)
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Heer van Berkel en Rodenrijs (1600), Gunterstein (1611) and Bakkum (1613), was a Dutch statesman and revolutionary who played an important role in the Dut…
Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after being convicted of treason
The Thirty Years' War, fought primarily in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648, was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history. An estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldie…
Thirty Years' War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt
Geoffrey Shakerley was an English politician who sat as MP for Wigan in 1661. He is the father of Peter Shakerley, who also sat as MP for Wigan.
Geoffrey Shakerley, English politician (died 1696)
Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck was a Dutch merchant and colonial administrator who served as the first Commander of the Cape from 1652 to 1662.
Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch founder of Cape Town (died 1677)
Barbara Strozzi was a Venetian composer and singer of the middle Baroque Period. During her lifetime, Strozzi published eight volumes of her own music, and had more secular music i…
Barbara Strozzi, Italian composer and singer-songwriter (died 1677)
Jean-Baptiste Colbert was a French statesman who served as First Minister of State from 1661 until his death in 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV. His lasting impact on the org…
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French economist and politician, Controller-General of Finances (died 1683)
The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. It was located, in what later became James City County, on the northe…
In Jamestown, Virginia, the first Colonial European representative assembly in the Americas, the Virginia General…
Ferdinand II was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia, Hungary, and Croatia from 1619 until his death in 1637. He was the son of Archduke Charles II of Inner Austria and Maria of Ba…
Election of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor.
Manavati Bai, also spelled as Manvati Bai,, better known by her title, Jagat Gosain, was the second wife and the empress consort of the fourth Mughal emperor Jahangir and the mothe…
Jagat Gosain, Mughal empress (born 1573)
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Heer van Berkel en Rodenrijs (1600), Gunterstein (1611) and Bakkum (1613), was a Dutch statesman and revolutionary who played an important role in the Dut…
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch politician (born 1547)
Girolamo Fabrici d'Acquapendente, also known as Girolamo Fabrizio or Hieronymus Fabricius, was a pioneering anatomist and surgeon known in medical science as "The Father of Embryol…
Hieronymus Fabricius, Italian anatomist (born 1537)
Isabella Feltria della Rovere was an Italian princess from the House of della Rovere. Through her marriage to Niccolò Bernardino Sanseverino, she became a princess of Bisignano. Sh…
Isabella Feltria della Rovere, Italian noblewoman (born 1552)
Lawrence of Brindisi, OFM Cap., born Giulio Cesare Russo, was an Italian Catholic priest, theologian and member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. An accomplished linguist, in …
Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian priest and saint (born 1559)
Shimazu Yoshihiro was the second son of Shimazu Takahisa and the younger brother of Shimazu Yoshihisa. Traditionally believed to be the 17th head of the Shimazu clan, he was a ski…
Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (born 1535)
Melchior Grodziecki was a Silesian Jesuit priest. He is considered a martyr and saint by the Catholic Church. He was canonized in 1995 and is liturgically commemorated on 19 Januar…
Melchior Grodziecki, Polish priest and saint (born 1582)
Marko Stjepan Krizin, or Marko Križevčanin was a Croatian Roman Catholic priest, professor of theology and missionary, who was active in the 17th century. In the course of the stru…
Marko Krizin, Croatian priest, missionary, and saint (born 1589)
Ferdinand II was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia, Hungary, and Croatia from 1619 until his death in 1637. He was the son of Archduke Charles II of Inner Austria and Maria of Ba…
Ferdinand II, King of Bohemia and Hungary, was unanimously elected Holy Roman Emperor.
Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c. was the first Dutch newspaper. It began appearing in Amsterdam in June 1618 and was a regular weekly publication. The Courante can be called t…
Joris Veseler prints the first Dutch newspaper Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c
Maurice of Orange was stadtholder of all the provinces of the Dutch Republic—except Friesland—from 1585 until his death. Prior to inheriting the title Prince of Orange from his eld…
Maurice, Prince of Orange disbands the waardgelders militia in Utrecht, a pivotal event in the…
A baktun is 20 kʼatun cycles of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar. It contains 144,000 days, equal to 394.26 tropical years. The Classic period of Maya civilization occurred dur…
The twelfth baktun in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar begins.
Johan Nieuhof was a Dutch traveler who wrote about his journeys to Brazil, China and India. The most famous of these was a trip of 2,400 kilometers (1,500 mi) from Canton to Peking…
Johan Nieuhof, Dutch traveler (died 1672)
Johannes Kepler was a German polymath who was an astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and music theorist. He is a key figure in the 17th-century Scientific Re…
Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it
The Defenestrations of Prague were three incidents in the history of Bohemia in which people were defenestrated. Though already existing in Middle French, the word defenestrate is …
The Third Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years' War
Sir Peter Lely was a painter of Dutch origin whose career was nearly all spent in England, where he became the dominant portrait painter to the court. He became a naturalised Engli…
Peter Lely, Dutch-English painter (died 1680)