1624

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Year '1624' ('MDCXXIV') was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1624

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1624

January - June

★ January 24 - Alfonso Mendez, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa.

July - December

★ August - The Siege of Breda begins, and will continue for eleven months.

★ October (start) - Tuscan/Papal/Neapolitan force defeats Algerians near Sardinia (details).

Undated

★ Martin Luther's German translation of the Bible is publicly burned by order of the Pope.

★ The Netherlands establish a trading colony at Kaohsiung on Taiwan.

★ Thirty Walloon families settle in the New Netherland colony.

★ The Virginia Land Company's charter is revoked and Virginia becomes a crown colony.

★ Oslo is destroyed by fire: when rebuilt by Christian IV, it would be renamed Christiania.

★ Claudio Monteverdi publishes ''Tancredi e Clorinda''.

★ Jean Louis Guez de Balzac publishes his ''Lettres''.

★ Bernardo de Balbuena publishes ''El Bernardo''.

★ Santa Rosalia makes a miraculous appearance during a plague in Palermo.

★ Kalmia latifolia (mountain laurel) first recorded in America.

★ Jakob Bartsch records the constellation Camelopardalis around north star.

★ Sir William Borlase's Grammar School is founded.

★ Dr Challoner's Grammar School is founded.

★ The Palace of Versailles is first built, as a hunting lodge.

★ Muchalls Castle plasterwork ceilings are completed.

★ Construction of Chateau Cheverny begins.

★ Pembroke College, Oxford is founded.

★ The Japanese Shogun expels Spanish from the land and severs trade with the Philippines.

★ Mail service begins in Denmark.

★ University founded in Bolivia.

★ War between England and Spain.

★ Cornelius Drebbel first discovers gases.

★ Cardinal Richelieu appointed by Louis XIII to be his advisor.

★ Henry Briggs publishes ''Arithmetica Logarithmica''.

★ The French Parliament passes a decree forbidding criticism of Aristotle on pain of death.

Births

★ January 9 - Meishō, empress of Japan (died 1696)

★ January 31 - Arnold Geulincx, Flemish philosopher (died 1669)

★ June 15 - Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (died 1704)

★ July - George Fox, English founder of the Quakers (died 1691)

★ August 22 - Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (died 1701)

★ August 25 - Père François de La Chaise, French churchman (died 1709)

★ September 10 - Thomas Sydenham, English physician (died 1689)

★ October 30 - Paul Pellisson, French author (died 1693)

★ ''date unknown''

★
★ Koxinga, Chinese military leader (died 1662)
: ''See also .''

Deaths

★ February 12 - George Heriot, Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist (born 1563)

★ February 13 - Stephen Gosson, English satirist (born 1554)

★ February 17 - Juan de Mariana, Spanish historian (born 1536)

★ July - Alonso Fajardo y Tenza, governor of the Philippines

★ November 10 - Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (born 1573)

★ November 17 - Jakob Böhme, German mystic (born 1575)

★ December 5 - Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (born 1560)

★ December 14 - Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English statesman (born 1536)

★ December 26 - Simon Marius, German astronomer (born 1573)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Francesco Andreini, Italian actor (born c1548)
: ''See also .''