This page relates to the year 1614 Gregorian Calendrier.
Events
- Voyage around the world of Joris van Spilbergen.
America
- January 25th: The Japanese ship San Juan Bautista arrives at Acapulco.
- March 27th: Edict of the General states of the United Provinces stipulating that the people who would discover new areas, ports or straits would be seen granting an exclusive license.
- April 5th: Pocahontas, a North-American Indian princess marries an English colonist of Virginia, John Rolfe.
- October 11th: Adriaen Block, Hendrick Christiaensen and a group of twelve other traders obtains in the name of the news Compagnie of News-Holland a three years monopoly for the trade with the areas ranging between the 40e and the parallel 45e (New-Country-Low).
Asia
- the Dutch Company of the Indies creates a counter with Java to adulterate on the grounds of the sultan of Bantam.
Japan
- October 5th: Arrival in Europe of the diplomatic mission Japanese led by Tsunenaga Hasekura.
- November 19th: Beginning of the Head office of Ōsaka (fine the January 22nd 1615). Tokugawa Ieyasu organizes two attacks on the castle of Osaka during the winter 1614 - 1615, which come to end from the son from Hideyoshi, Hideyori, and of the armies of Toyotomi, thus achieving the reunification of the Japan. Hideyori commits suicide (June 5th 1615), and Ieyasu makes decapitate the son of this last, its own seven years old great-grandson, and dispatch in a monastery his/her sister, six years old.
- Prohibition of Christianity. Expulsion of the Jesuits of Japan. Destruction of the churches of Kyôto.
Europe
France
- February 21st: Bubble, Longueville, Mayenne, Nevers, Vendôme and Condé makes secession and claims the handing-over of the Spanish marriages and the convocation of the State-Generals.
- May 15th: Treaty of Holy-Menehould between the princes and the representatives of the king. Marie de Médicis accepts the behavior of the General states.
- Vendôme raises the Brittany. His/her brother Louis XIII walk on Nantes. The revolt is contained. Nevers goes.
- October 2nd: Reads justice: declaration of the majority of the king (13 years). Marie de Médicis guard capacity in fact (fine in 1617).
- October 19th entered of Louis XIII with Pau, the Béarn is annexed to the kingdom of France, catholisation of the area which before was a bastion protesting
- October 27th: Opening of the State-Generals of Paris, which mark the final failure of the national representation near monarchy. Marie de Médicis faces large kingdom there. Richelieu is named delegated clergy. The deputies of the clergy claim the application of the guns of the Concile of Thirty. The deputies of the nobility want to make repeal the mode of the heredity of the venal loads, which closes the access of the magistratures to the little silver plated rural nobility. The deputies of the Third state, for the majority of the law officers, endeavor to defend the prerogatives of the royal capacity, as well against pontifical supremacy as against the intervention of Large in the entourage of the king (fine the February 23rd 1615).
Religion
- André Duval adopts the cause of the pontifical Infaillibilité.
- Publication of the Ritual Roman, announcing the standardization of the rites.
- Publication with Kassel (Germany) of a document anonym : Fama fraternitatis or brotherhood of the famous order of the R. - C. telling the life of Christian Rosenkreutz (Christian Rosicrucian brotherhood). This mythical character would be the founder about the Rosicrucian brotherhood.
Art & culture
See also: 1614 with the theater
Science & technology
- the Scottish Mathematician Neper or Napier publishes the first table of the Logarithme S: Mirifici logarithmorum canonis descriptio .
Economy & company
- July 1st: Bankruptcy of the bank Welser of Augsburg.
- Invasion of grasshoppers in the Camargue.
- With the State-Generals, the president of the baillage of Auvergne, Savaron, elected by the State Third, described in the presence of the young king the misery of rural of its area.
Births in 1614
Death in 1614
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April 7th: Greco ( Domenico Theotokopoulos ), Spanish painter of origin crétoise, with Tolède, (Spain). (° October 1st 1541).
- April 28th: Marian de Martinbos, religious French, 73e abbot of Jumièges.
- July 1st: Isaac Casaubon, humanistic and protesting scholar, librarian of Henri IV. (° February 18th 1559).
- July 15th: Pierre de Brantôme ( Pierre de Bourdeille ), poet and writer French. (° v. 1540).
- August 11th: Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter.
- August 21st: Elizabeth Báthory, the bloody countess.
Easter Day
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