1614
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 16th century – 17th century – 18th century |
| Decades: | 1580s 1590s 1600s – 1610s – 1620s 1630s 1640s |
| Years: | 1611 1612 1613 – 1614 – 1615 1616 1617 |
| 1614 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – |
| Art – Literature – Music – Science |
| Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Births – Deaths – Works |
Year 1614 (MDCXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
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Events of 1614
Pocahontas marries John Rolfe.
July–December
- April 5 – Pocahontas marries John Rolfe.
- August 23 – The University of Groningen is established in the Netherlands.
- September 1 – In England, Sir Julius Caesar becomes Master of the Rolls.
- October 11 – Adriaen Block and a group of Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the area he explored and named "New Netherland".
- November 16 – The Treaty of Xanten ends the War of the Jülich succession.
- November 19 – The Siege of Osaka begins.
Undated
- The French Estates-General meets for the last time before the era of the French Revolution. In between, France will be governed as an absolute monarchy.
- John Napier publishes Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio, a paper outlining his discovery of logarithms.
- The Rosicrucian Order is instituted in Germany according to Fraternitas Rosae Crucis.
- Toyotomi Hideyori attempts to restore Osaka Castle. Tokugawa Ieyasu, father of the Shogun, is outraged at this act, and takes the castle by storm.
- Christianity banned throughout Japan
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1614 MDCXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2367 |
| Armenian calendar | 1063 ԹՎ ՌԿԳ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -230 – -229 |
| Bengali calendar | 1021 |
| Berber calendar | 2564 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2158 |
| Burmese calendar | 976 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7122 – 7123 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸丑年十一月廿一日 (4250/4310-11-21) — to —
甲寅年十二月初一日(4251/4311-12-1) |
| Coptic calendar | 1330 – 1331 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1606 – 1607 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5374 – 5375 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 1670 – 1671 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1536 – 1537 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4715 – 4716 |
| Holocene calendar | 11614 |
| Iranian calendar | 992 – 993 |
| Islamic calendar | 1022 – 1023 |
| Japanese calendar | Keichō 19 (慶長19年) |
| Korean calendar | 3947 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2157 |
- January 1 – John Wilkins, English clergyman (d. 1672)
- January 5 – Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (d. 1662)
- July 10 – Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (d. 1686)
- December 16 – Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1674)
- date unknown – Franciscus Sylvius, German scientist (d. 1672)
Deaths
- April 7 –z El Greco, or Domênikos Theotokópoulos (Greek: Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος), Cretian painter, sculptor and architect (b. 1541)
- June 15 – Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, English politician (b. 1540)
- July 1 – Isaac Casaubon, French-born classical scholar (b. 1559)
- July 14 – Camillus de Lellis, Italian saint (b. 1550)
- July 15 – Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, French historian and biographer
- August 11 – Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (b. 1552)
- August 21 – Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian serial killer (b. 1560)
- September – Giovanni de Macque, composer (b. c. 1550)