1615

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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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Events of 1615

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1615

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.

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, England.

Undated

★ 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, Countess of Shrewsbury, 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.

Births

★ 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, Elector Palatine (d. 1690)

★ ''date unknown'' - Georg Daniel Schultz, Polish painter
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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, Japanese samurai (b. 1567)

★ May 27 - Marguerite de Valois, queen of Henry IV of France (b. 1553)

★ June 23 - Mashita Nagamori, Japanese warlord (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)

★ ''date unknown'' - Alonso de Guzmán El Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, leader of the Spanish Armada (b. 1550)
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