1616

This page relates to the year 1616 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

January: The explorers Willem Schouten and the Mayor discover the straits of the Mayor and Drake.
January 29th: The explorer Dutch Willem Schouten circumvents for the first time the Cape Horn by the open sea.
March 2nd: Foundation of a village on the site of the town of Medellín in Colombia by the Spaniards.

the English explorer and navigator William Baffin, in the search of a Passage of the North-West, discovers the bay which will bear its name.
an epidemic of Variola ten-per-cent tax Indian population in New England.
the Second forwarding of Walter Raleigh in Guyana (1616 - 1618). It enters in conflict with a Spanish colony and must be re-embarked. He will be decapitated the year of his return under the terms of a sentence pronounced against him thirteen years before.

the French and the Dutchmen establish stations of trade to the Senegal and in Côte of Gold.

May 22nd: Willem Schouten and Jacob the Mayor discover the island of Futuna.
October 27th, Australia: The Dutch navigator Dirk Hartog fails on the Western coast of the Péninsule of the course York and leaves there tin a dish, first attesting object of the contacts of Europeans with the Australien continent.

Nurhachi (Nourqatsi), chief of Jurchens (Manchu) proclaims Khan. Princes Mandchous unify the tribes Toungouses.

the Manchu tribes and toungouses make an active trade with the China (furs, ginseng). Nourqatsi secured a great economic capacity by holding to ransom the caravans which cross its territory.

the English obtain from the emperor moghol Jahangir the authorization to settle with Surat.
Dutch Establishment with Surat.
Arrived of the Danes to India. Creation of the Danish Company of the Eastern Indies.
English Counter with Masulipatam.

April 30th: The Proconsuls and Senators of Hamburg ask Venice to install a consul in the city.
July 24th: Radu Serban Basarab becomes voïévode of Moldavie (1616 - 1619, 1623 - 1626).
November 16th, England: Edward Coke resigns of its station of Chief Justice .

icy Winter. The the Seine freezes of the {{1st}} with the January 30th. At the time of the rout, the Saint-Michel bridge is carried. Around Paris, the thickness of the layer of snow exceeds the size of a man. The the Rhone is cold.

Revolt peerage-book against Concini.
May 3rd: Treaty of Loudun between Marie de Médicis and noble rebels. Condé becomes chief of the Council.
May: Disgrace of Nicolas Brûlart de Sillery. Guillaume of Squirrel fur becomes in spite of him Chancelier of France and Minister of Justice (fine in November).
Fine August: Secret meetings of unquestionable Large against Concini and the queen mother.
September 1st: Marie de Médicis, under the council of Barbin, Mangot and Richelieu makes stop Condé. The former ministers of Henri IV are dismissed.
November 25th: Richelieu becomes secretary of foreign affairs and with the war.
November: Claude Mangot becomes Chancelier of France (fine in 1617). Claude Barbin obtains finances.

the Peste made in France 365 000 died since 1600.
Antoine de Montchrestien creates a manufacture of ustensil and tools with the Châtillon-on-Loire and publishes a treaty of political economy.

October: Richelieu makes create a pulpit of theology specialized in the controversy with the Sorbonne.
the treaty of the love of god of François Dirty.
In Germany, an important work of the Tradition rosicrucian is published by Johan Valentine Andreae (1586 - 1654) : chymic weddings of Kristian RosenKreutz .
the archimandrite of the convent of Saint-Serge, Denis, animates a coterie working with the reform of the Russian Church. The tsar charges it with the revision of the holy Books, company which runs up against the hostility of the conservatives, of which the mother of the tsar. Denis will be imprisoned, then released thanks to the return of the Philarète patriarch.

Gate of the church Saint-Gervais by Solomon de Brosse (first of style traditional).
Installation of the Course-the-Queen with Paris.
Installation of a great place with Montauban.
the construction of the blue Mosquée is completed with Istanbul.
Construction of the mosque of the king with Ispahan ( Masfjid-E Shah ) between 1616 and 1620. The frontages and the cupolas are decorated with earthenware enamelled with the abstract floral reasons drawn out of gold and white on a turquoise blue bottom.

February 16th: Galileo, which openly does not support the principles of Copernic, is quoted in front of the Holy Office, which declares in its censure of the February 24th that to support the proposal which the sun is motionless in the center of the system is “ foolish and absurdity in philosophy and formally heretic because it is opposed to the Holy Scriptures and the common interpretation of the Saints Fathers… ”
March 5th: The Catholic church declares heretics the ideas of Copernic. The Enquiry enjoint Galileo to cease teaching the theses heliocentrist S of Nicolas Copernic.

Of revolutionibus orbium coelestium of Copernic continues to be taught with the university of Cracow by its disciples.
the English doctor William Harvey shows the circulation the blood in the organization.

April 22nd: Miguel de Cervantes (of the Gregorian Calendar)
April 23rd: William Shakespeare with Stratford-upon-Avon (of the Calendar Julien)
March 3rd: Mathias of Obel, Flemish Botanist (° 1538).
March 6th: Francis Beaumont, dramatic author, with London (born in 1584).
April 23rd: Garcilaso of Vega, known as the INCA, with Cordoue, Peruvian chronicler, wire of Spanish and an INCA princess (born with Cuzco in 1539).
June 1st: Ieyasu Tokugawa

Pierre-Olivier Malherbe, first traveller to have carried out the round the world tour by terrestrial way.

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