1618
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| Decades: | 1580s 1590s 1600s - 1610s - 1620s 1630s 1640s
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| Years: | 1615 1616 1617 - 1618 - 1619 1620 1621 |
Year 1618 (MDCXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1618
[edit] January - June
- March 8 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion (he soon rejects the idea after some initial calculations were made but on May 15 confirms the discovery).
- May 23 - The Second Defenestration of Prague - Protestant noblemen throw three representatives of Ferdinand II out of a window. The event precipitates the Thirty Years' War.
- June 14 – Estimated date when Joris Veseler prints the first Dutch newspaper Courante uyt Italien in Amsterdam.
- July 20 - Pluto reached, according to sophisticated mathematical calculations, its second most recent aphelion. The next one occurred in 1866, and the following one will occur in 2113.
[edit] July - December
- August 29 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and Hugo Grotius are imprisoned by Maurice of Nassau.
- September 18 - marks the beginning of the 13th Baktun in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, the final phase of the Great Cycle.
- September 19-November 21 - Siege of Plzeň
- October 29 - English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
- November 13 - the Synod of Dordrecht has its first meeting.
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- The markgraves of Brandenburg are granted Polish approval to inherit the Duchy of Prussia.
- Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mustafa I (1617-1623) to Osman II (1618-1622).
- The 3000 seat Teatro Farnese, the first permanent proscenium theatre, was built into the Great Hall of the Palazzo della Pilotta in Parma, Italy in 1618.
- The Chinese embassy presents tea to the Russian tsar.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1618 MDCXVIII
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| Ab urbe condita | 2371 |
| Armenian calendar | 1067 ԹՎ ՌԿԷ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -226 – -225 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2162 |
| Coptic calendar | 1334 – 1335 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1610 – 1611 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5378 – 5379 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1673 – 1674 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1540 – 1541 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4719 – 4720 |
| Holocene calendar | 11618 |
| Iranian calendar | 996 – 997 |
| Islamic calendar | 1027 – 1028 |
| Japanese calendar | Genna
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| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2278 (皇紀2278年) |
| Julian calendar | 1663 |
| Korean calendar | 3951 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2161 |
- January 1 - Bartolomé Estéban Murillo, Spanish painter (d. 1682)
- April 2 - Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1663)
- April 13 - Roger de Rabutin, French writer (d. 1693)
- November 3 - Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1707)
- November - Simon Arnauld de Pomponne, French diplomat and minister of Louis XIV (d. 1699)
- date unknown
- Ādiŧyavoṇś, Ayuthian monarch
- Henry Bennet, politician (member of the Cabal)
- Richard Lovelace, English poet (died c1657)
- See also 1618 births.
[edit] Deaths
- February 20 - Philip William (b. 1554)
- March 23 - James Hamilton, Scottish politician (born c 1575)
- June 7 - Thomas West, English Governor of Virginia (b. 1577)
- August 23 - Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (b. 1585)
- September 28 - Joshua Sylvester, English poet (b. 1563)
- October 29 - Sir Walter Raleigh, English courtier and settler of Virginia (executed) (b. 1554)
- November 2 - Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (b. 1558)
- December 6 - Jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (b. 1556)
- December 10 - Giulio Caccini, Italian composer (born 1551)
- probable - Chief Powhatan, whose proper name was Wahunsenacawh, father of Pocahontas (born c.1547)
- See also 1618 deaths.
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[edit] People of the year 1618 at Familypedia
6 people were born in 1618
10 people died in 1618
293 people lived in 1618
