1615

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Centuries:	16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades:	1580s  1590s  1600s  - 1610s -  1620s  1630s  1640s
Years:	1612 1613 1614 - 1615 - 1616 1617 1618

1615 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature - Music - Science

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

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).

Contents 1 Events of 1615 1.1 January - June 1.2 July - December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 2.1 Unknown dates 3 Deaths 3.1 Unknown dates

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.

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.

Births

1615 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1615 MDCXV
Ab urbe condita	2368
Armenian calendar	1064 ԹՎ ՌԿԴ
Bahá'í calendar	-229 – -228
Buddhist calendar	2159
Chinese calendar	4251/4311-12-2 (甲寅年十二月初二日) — to — 4252/4312-11-12 (乙卯年十一月十二日)
Ethiopian calendar	1607 – 1608
Hebrew calendar	5375 – 5376
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1670 – 1671
- Shaka Samvat	1537 – 1538
- Kali Yuga	4716 – 4717
Holocene calendar	11615
Iranian calendar	993 – 994
Islamic calendar	1023 – 1024
Japanese calendar	Keichō 20 (慶長20年) — changed to — Genna 1 (元和元年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2275 (皇紀2275年)
- Jōmon Era	11615
Julian calendar	1660
Korean calendar	3948
Thai solar calendar	2158
v • d • e

• 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)
• 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)

Unknown dates

• Salvator Rosa, Italian painter (died 1673)
• Georg Daniel Schultz, Polish painter

See also Category:1615 births.

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)
• November 24 - Sethus Calvisius, German calendar reformer (b. 1556)

Unknown dates

• Alonso de Guzmán El Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, leader of the Spanish Armada (b. 1550)

See also Category:1615 deaths.

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