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 by topic
Arts and science
Archaeology Architecture Art Literature Poetry Music Science
Countries
Lists of leaders
State leaders Colonial governors Religious leaders
Birth and death categories
Births Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments Disestablishments
Works category
Works

1614 Media

• 

  April 5: Pocahontas marries John Rolfe.

• 

  December 4: Start of the Siege of Osaka

• 

  Christopher Merret (1614-1695)

• 

  Mogulprinzessin Jahanara (*1614/ † 1682), Darstellung von ca. 1635.

• 

  The Italian Jesuit Martino Martini, one of the first European cartographers of the Chinese empire.

• 

  前田利長 (Maeda Toshinaga)

• 

  Johannes Magirus the elder

• 

  Saint Camillus de Lellis

1614 (MDCXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1614th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 614th year of the 2nd millennium, the 14th year of the 17th century, and the 5th year of the 1610s decade. As of the start of 1614, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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)