Explore 49 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)
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
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
Tomás Sánchez was a 16th-century Spanish Jesuit and famous casuist.
Thomas Sanchez, Spanish priest and theologian (born 1550)
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…
The Treaty of Loudun was signed, ending a war that originally began as a power struggle for the French throne
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)
Christoph Bach was a German musician of the Baroque period. He was the grandfather of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Christoph Bach, German musician (died 1661)
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)
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, born Gómez Suárez de Figueroa and known as El Inca, was a chronicler and writer born in the Viceroyalty of Peru. Sailing to Spain at 21, he was educated …
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Spanish writer and historian (born 1539)
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)
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
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)
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)
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
The Reverend Thomas Bastard was an English clergyman famed for his published English language epigrams.
Thomas Bastard, English priest and author (born 1566)
Landgrave Frederick of Hesse-Eschwege was from 1632 until his death Landgrave of the apanage of Hesse-Eschwege, which stood under the suzerainty of Hesse-Kassel.
Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege (died 1655)
Elias Ashmole was an English antiquary, politician, officer of arms, astrologer, freemason and student of alchemy. Ashmole supported the royalist side during the English Civil War,…
Elias Ashmole, English astrologer and politician (died 1692)
Concino Concini, 1st Marquis d'Ancre was an Italian politician, best known for being a minister of Louis XIII of France, as the favourite of Louis's mother, Marie de Medici, Queen …
Concino Concini, Italian-French politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1575)
David Fabricius was a Frisian pastor who made two major discoveries in the early days of telescopic astronomy, jointly with his eldest son, Johannes Fabricius (1587–1615).
David Fabricius, German astronomer and theologian (born 1564)
Luis Fajardo y Ruíz de Avendaño,, known simply as Luis Fajardo, was a Spanish admiral and nobleman who had an outstanding naval career in the Spanish Navy. He is considered one of …
Luis Fajardo, Spanish admiral and nobleman (born c
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
Johann Jakob Froberger was a German Baroque composer, keyboard virtuoso, and organist. Among the most famous composers of the era, he was influential in developing the musical form…
Johann Jakob Froberger, German organist and composer (died 1667)
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)
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)
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…
The Treaty of Loudun was signed, ending a war that originally began as a power struggle for the French throne
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, born Gómez Suárez de Figueroa and known as El Inca, was a chronicler and writer born in the Viceroyalty of Peru. Sailing to Spain at 21, he was educated …
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Spanish writer and historian (born 1539)
Tokugawa Ieyasu was a Japanese samurai, daimyo and the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He wa…
Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun (born 1543)
The Wignacourt Aqueduct is a 17th-century aqueduct in Malta, which was built by the Order of Saint John to carry water from springs in Dingli and Rabat to the newly built capital c…
The Wignacourt Aqueduct is inaugurated in Malta
The Franciscan Recollects were a French reform branch of the Friars Minor, a Franciscan order. Denoted by their gray habits and pointed hoods, the Recollects devoted their lives t…
The first Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France