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

Events

• April 5 – In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
• 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".
• 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 a paper outlining his discovery of logarithms.
• The University of Groningen is established.
• Institution of the Rosicrucian Order 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.

Births

• 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)
• Franciscus Sylvius, German scientist (d. 1672)