1611

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1580s 1590s 1600s – 1610s – 1620s 1630s 1640s
Years:	1608 1609 1610 – 1611 – 1612 1613 1614

1611 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
Art – Literature – Music – Science
Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1611 (MDCXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

1 Events of 1611
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events of 1611

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sunspots seen.

January–June

March 9 – Yemana Kristos, brother of Emperor Susenyos, ends the rebellion of Melka Sedeq in the Battle of Segaba in Begemder.
April 28 – The Colegio de Nuestra Señora del Santísimo Rosario is established in Manila, the Philippines (later renamed Colegio de Santo Tomas, now known as the University of Santo Tomas).
May 2 King James Bible is published for the first time in London, England By printer Robert Barker

July–December

August 2 – Jamestown: Deputy Governor Sir Thomas Gates returns to Virginia with 280 people, provisions and cattle on 6 ships and assumes control, ruling that the fort must be strengthened.
September – Jamestown: Thomas Dale, with 350 men, starts building Henricus.
October 30 – Gustavus Adolphus succeeds his father Charles IX as king of Sweden.
November 1 – At Whitehall Palace in London, William Shakespeare's romantic comedy The Tempest is performed for the first time.

Undated

Johannes and David Fabricius discover sunspots.
Emperor Go-Mizunoo succeeds Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan.
Jamestown: John Rolfe imports tobacco seeds from the island of Trinidad (Nicotiana tabacum); the native tobacco is Nicotiana rustica.
Thomas Dale founds the city of Henricus on the James River, a few miles south of present day Richmond, Virginia.
Denmark attacks Sweden.
George Abbot becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.
Construction begins on Naghsh-i Jahan Square in Isfahan, Persia.

Births

**1611 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1611 MDCXI
Ab urbe condita	2364
Armenian calendar	1060 ԹՎ ՌԿ
Bahá'í calendar	-233 – -232
Bengali calendar	1018
Berber calendar	2561
Buddhist calendar	2155
Burmese calendar	973
Byzantine calendar	7119 – 7120
Chinese calendar	庚戌年十一月十八日 (4247/4307-11-18) — to — 辛亥年十一月廿八日 (4248/4308-11-28)
Coptic calendar	1327 – 1328
Ethiopian calendar	1603 – 1604
Hebrew calendar	5371 – 5372
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1667 – 1668
- Shaka Samvat	1533 – 1534
- Kali Yuga	4712 – 4713
Holocene calendar	11611
Iranian calendar	989 – 990
Islamic calendar	1019 – 1020
Japanese calendar	Keichō 16 (慶長16年)
Korean calendar	3944
Thai solar calendar	2154

January 28 – Johannes Hevelius, astronomer (d. 1687)
May 16 – Pope Innocent XI (d. 1689)
July 16 – Archduchess Cecilia Renata of Austria, Queen of Poland (d. 1644)
September 1 – William Cartwright (d. 1643)
September 8 – Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (d. 1671)
September 11 – Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, Marshal of France (d. 1675)
November 1 – François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (d. 1656)
date unknown
- Karl Eusebius of Liechtenstein, second Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1684)
- Diego Quispe Tito, Peruvian painter (d. 1681)
probable
- D'Artagnan, musketeer (d. 1673)

Deaths

February 12 – Jodocus Hondius, cartographer (b. 1563)
February 26 – Antonio Possevino, papal legate to Russia
March 5 – Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1533)
June 8 – Jean Bertaut, French poet (b. 1552)
July 26 – Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542)
August 2 – Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1562)
August 27 – Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer (b. c. 1548)
October 3 – Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (b. 1554)
October 30 – King Charles IX of Sweden (b. 1550)
date unknown
- Camillo Mariani, sculptor (b. 1565)
- Henry Hudson, explorer