1624

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1590s  1600s  1610s  – 1620s –  1630s  1640s  1650s
Years:	1621 1622 1623 – 1624 – 1625 1626 1627

1624 Media

• AMH-6700-KB Gezicht op de slag om stad San Salvador in de Allerheiligenbaai tussen Nederlanders en Portugezen in 1624.jpg

  May 8: The Capture of Bahia in Portuguese Brazil is made by the Dutch East India Company

• Guarino Guarini.jpg

  Camillo-Guarino Guarini (7 January 1624 – 6 March 1683)

• Mgr Lambert de la Motte.jpg

  Pierre Lambert de la Motte

• Lambert Doomer, by Ferdinand Bol.jpg

  Lambert Doomer * * drawing * ca 1623 - ca 1680

• Thomas Sydenham by Mary Beale.jpg

  Portrait of Thomas Sydenham

• Murád Baxsh.jpg

  Album leaf. Portrait. Murád Baxsh + inscription. On paper.*See 1974,0617,0.11 for album description.

• Barent Fabritius - Self-portrait as John the Evangelist.jpg

  This image is available from the Netherlands Institute for Art Historyunder digital ID 60530.

• Sabinin. M. Queen Ketevan.jpg

  Queen Ketevan of Georgia

• SimondeRojasOSS.jpg

  St. Simon de Rojas

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1624 (MDCXXIV) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday in the Julian calendar. The Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar. The Julian calendar remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

• January 24 – Alfonso Mendez, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa.
• The Netherlands establish a trading colony at Kaohsiung on Taiwan.
• Thirty Walloon families settle in the New Netherland colony.
• Oslo is destroyed by fire. When rebuilt by Christian IV, it would be renamed Christiania.
• Claudio Monteverdi publishes Tancredi e Clorinda.
• Jean Louis Guez de Balzac publishes his Lettres.
• Bernardo de Balbuena publishes El Bernardo.
• Santa Rosalia makes a miraculous appearance during a plague in Palermo.
• Kalmia latifolia (mountain laurel) first recorded in America.
• Jakob Bartsch records the constellation Camelopardalis.
• Dr Challoner's Grammar School is founded.
• The Palace of Versailles is first built, as a hunting lodge.
• Chateau Cheverny begins construction.
• Pembroke College, Oxford founded.
• The Japanese Shogun expels Spanish from the land and severs trade with the Philippines
• Mail service begins in Denmark
• University founded in Bolivia
• War between England and Spain
• Cornelius Drebbel discover gases
• Cardinal Richelieu appointed by Louis XIII to be his advisor
• Henry Briggs publishes Arithmetica Logarithmica