1625

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1590s  1600s  1610s  – 1620s –  1630s  1640s  1650s
Years:	1622 1623 1624 – 1625 – 1626 1627 1628

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1625 Media

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  June 2: Breda is surrendered to Spanish troops after an eleven-month siege.

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  September 15: The Capture of Ré island.

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  MarattaSP

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  Giovanni Domenico Cassini

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  • Oliver Plunket, by Edward Luttrell (died 1737). See source website for additional information. This set of images was gathered by User:Dcoetzee from the National Portrait Gallery, London website using a special tool. All images in this batch have been confirmed as author died before 1939 according to the official death date listed by the NPG.
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  Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Chichester died 19 February

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  Andres de Soto died 5 April

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  Adriaan van den Spiegel died 7 April

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  Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouche died 18 August

1625 (MDCXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1625th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 625th year of the 2nd millennium, the 25th year of the 17th century, and the 6th year of the 1620s decade. As of the start of 1625, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Deaths

• January 7 – Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer
• March 7 – Johann Bayer, German astronomer (b. 1572)
• March 25 – Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (b. 1569)
• March 27 – King James I of England and Ireland/James VI of Scotland (b. 1566)
• March 29 – Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Spanish historian (b. 1549)
• April 23 – Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (b. 1567)
• April 27 – Mori Terumoto, Japanese warrior (b. 1553)
• June 1 – Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (b. 1568)
• June 5 – Orlando Gibbons, English composer and organist (b. 1583)
• August – John Fletcher, English writer (b. 1579)
• September 20 – Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (b. 1555)
• September 26 – Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian (d. 1579)
• October 22 – Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (b. 1561)
• December 9 – Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (b. 1547)
• Robert Cushman, Plymouth Colony settler