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
May 8: The Capture of Bahia in Portuguese Brazil is made by the Dutch East India Company
Camillo-Guarino Guarini (7 January 1624 – 6 March 1683)
Lambert Doomer * * drawing * ca 1623 - ca 1680
Portrait of Thomas Sydenham
Album leaf. Portrait. Murád Baxsh + inscription. On paper.*See 1974,0617,0.11 for album description.
This image is available from the Netherlands Institute for Art Historyunder digital ID 60530.
Queen Ketevan of Georgia
St. Simon de Rojas
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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