1615
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Template:C17YearInTopicX Year 1615 (MDCXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1615
[edit] January - June
- 1 January - The New Netherland Company is granted a 3 year monopoly in North American trade between the 40th and 45th parallels.
- March 10 - Saint John Ogilvie, a Catholic priest, is hanged in Glasgow, Scotland.
- May 6 - The Peace of Tyrnau was signed between Holy Roman Emperor Matthias and Gábor Bethlen.
- June 2 - First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
- June 4 - Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu took Osaka Castle in Japan, beginning a period of peace which lasts nearly 250 years.
[edit] July - December
- November - The Mughals under Abu Bakr attack Kajali, a border post of the Ahom kingdom.
- November - Hasekura Tsunenaga visits Pope Paul V in Rome to request a trade treaty between Japan and Mexico.
- December 6 - In England, John Winthrop, later governor of the future Massachusetts Bay Colony, marries his second wife (of 4), Thomasine Clopton, daughter of William Clopton of Castleins, near Groton.
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- The second volume of Miguel Cervantes' Don Quixote is published.
- End of the Sengoku Period in Japan.
- Founding of the Grolsch Brewery in Groenlo, Netherlands.
- Persian hordes led by Shah-Abbas kill all the monks at the David Gareja monastery complex in Georgia set fire to its collection of manuscripts and works of art.
- Mary Talbot, is released from the Tower of London in recognition of her role in helping to discover the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury.
- The Somers Isles Company is founded to administer Bermuda.
- Johannes Kepler publishes Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo in response to Galileo's discovery of Jupiter's moons.
- King James I of Great Britain sent Sir Thomas Roe as his ambassador to the Mughal court of Jahangir.
- The Perse School in Cambridge, England, is founded by Dr Stephen Perse.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1615 MDCXV
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| Ab urbe condita | 2368 |
| Armenian calendar | 1064 ԹՎ ՌԿԴ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -229 – -228 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2159 |
| Coptic calendar | 1331 – 1332 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1607 – 1608 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5375 – 5376 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1670 – 1671 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1537 – 1538 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4716 – 4717 |
| Holocene calendar | 11615 |
| Iranian calendar | 993 – 994 |
| Islamic calendar | 1023 – 1024 |
| Japanese calendar | Keichō
20
— changed to — Genna
1
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| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2275 (皇紀2275年) |
| Julian calendar | 1660 |
| Korean calendar | 3948 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2158 |
- January 14 - John Biddle, English theologian (d. 1662)
- January 25 - Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (d. 1660)
- January 30 - Thomas Rolfe, Virginia colonist and son of Pocahontas
- March 13 - Pope Innocent XII (d. 1700)
- June 20 (or July 31) - Salvator Rosa, Italian painter (died 1673)
- September 7 - Colonel John Birch, English soldier (d. 1691)
- November 5 - Ibrahim I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1648)
- November 12 - Richard Baxter, English clergyman (d. 1691)
- November 24 - Philipp Wilhelm (d. 1690)
- See also 1615 births.
[edit] Deaths
- January 31 - Claudio Aquaviva, Italian Jesuit (b. 1543)
- February 4 - Dom Justo Takayama, Japanese warlord (b. 1552)
- March 4 - Hans von Aachen, German painter (b. 1552)
- May 4 - Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (b. 1561)
- May 7 - Sanada Yukimura, legendary Japanese samurai (b. 1567)
- May 27 - Marguerite de Valois, queen of Henry IV of France (b. 1553)
- June 23 - Mashita Nagamori, minor Japanese daimyo (b. 1545)
- September 1 - Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and man of letters (b. 1529)
- September 27 - Arbella Stuart, English noblewoman and woman of letters (b. 1575)
- November 24 - Sethus Calvisius, German calendar reformer (b. 1556)
- See also 1615 deaths.
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8 people were born in 1615
2 people died in 1615
286 people lived in 1615
