1616
Years:
1613 1614 1615 - 1616 - 1617 1618 1619Decades:
1580s 1590s 1600s - 1610s - 1620s 1630s 1640sCenturies:
16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1616 by topic: Science - State leaders - Literature - Music
Events
- October 25 — Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at an island off the Western Australian coast
- Pocahontas arrives in England
- War between Venice and Austria
- Collegium Musicum founded in Prague
- Nicolaus Copernicus' De revolutionibus is placed on the Index of Forbidden Books by the Roman Catholic Church
Births
- January 13 - Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (d. 1680)
- January 16 - François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (d. 1669)
- May 18 - Johann Jakob Froberger, German composer (d. 1667)
- May 24 - John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale, (d. 1682)
- May 25 - Carlo Dolci, Italian artist, (d. 1686)
- October 11 - Andreas Gryphius, German writer (d. 1664)
- October 20 - Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (d. 1680)
- November 22 - John Wallis, English mathematician, (d. 1703)
- William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1693)
See also @ 1616 births.
Deaths
- January 6 - Philip Henslowe, English theatre manager
- April 23 (N.S.) - Miguel Cervantes, Spanish author (b. 1547)
- April 23 (O.S.) - William Shakespeare, English playwright and poet (b. 1564)
- June 1 - Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun (b. 1543)
- July 20 - Hugh O'Neill, 3rd Earl of Tyrone, English soldier
- July 25 - Andreas Libavius, German physician and chemist (b. 1550)
- August 7 - Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (b. 1548)
- October 23 - Leonhard Hutter, German theologian (b. 1563)
- November 23 - Richard Hakluyt, English writer
- Alexander Whitaker, Virginia Colony religious leader (drowned) (b. 1585)
- Tang Xianzu, Chinese playwright and poet (b. 1550)
See also @ 1616 deaths.