1618

For a bill proposed in USA in 1998, see Bill 1618.

Year 1618 (MDCXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1618

January - June

• March 8 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion (he soon rejects the idea after some initial calculations were made but on May 15 confirms the discovery).
• May 23 - The Second Defenestration of Prague - Protestant noblemen throw three representatives of Ferdinand II out of a window. The event precipitates the Thirty Years' War.
• June 14 – Estimated date when Joris Veseler prints the first Dutch newspaper Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c. in Amsterdam.
• July 20 - Pluto reached, according to sophisticated mathematical calculations, its second most recent aphelion. The next one occurred in 1866, and the following one will occur in 2113.

July - December

• August 29 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and Hugo Grotius are imprisoned by Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange.
• October 29 - English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.

Undated

• The margraves of Brandenburg is granted Polish approval to inherit the Duchy of Prussia.
• November 13, the Synod of Dordrecht has its first meeting.
• Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mustafa I (1617-1623) to Osman II (1618-1622).
• The 3000 seat Teatro Farnese, the first permanent proscenium theatre, was built into the Great Hall of the Palazzo della Pilotta in Parma, Italy in 1618.

Births

1618 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1618 MDCXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2371
Armenian calendar	1067 ԹՎ ՌԿԷ
Assyrian calendar	6368
Balinese saka calendar	1539–1540
Bengali calendar	1024–1025
Berber calendar	2568
English Regnal year	15 Ja. 1 – 16 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar	2162
Burmese calendar	980
Byzantine calendar	7126–7127
Chinese calendar	丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 4315 or 4108     — to — 戊午年 (Earth Horse) 4316 or 4109
Coptic calendar	1334–1335
Discordian calendar	2784
Ethiopian calendar	1610–1611
Hebrew calendar	5378–5379
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1674–1675
- Shaka Samvat	1539–1540
- Kali Yuga	4718–4719
Holocene calendar	11618
Igbo calendar	618–619
Iranian calendar	996–997
Islamic calendar	1027–1028
Japanese calendar	Genna 4 (元和４年)
Javanese calendar	1538–1539
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3951
Minguo calendar	294 before ROC 民前294年
Nanakshahi calendar	150
Thai solar calendar	2160–2161
Tibetan calendar	阴火蛇年 (female Fire-Snake) 1744 or 1363 or 591     — to — 阳土马年 (male Earth-Horse) 1745 or 1364 or 592

• January 1 - Bartolomé Estéban Murillo, Spanish painter (d. 1682)
• April 2 - Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1663)
• April 13 - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (d. 1693)
• November 3 - Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1707)
• November - Simon Arnauld de Pomponne, French diplomat and minister of Louis XIV (d. 1699)

Date unknown

• Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, politician (member of the Cabal)
• Richard Lovelace, English poet (died c1657)

See also Category: 1618 births.

Deaths

• February 20 - Philip William, Prince of Orange (b. 1554)
• March 23 - James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn, Scottish politician (born c 1575)
• June 7 - Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English Governor of Virginia (b. 1577)
• August 23 - Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (b. 1585)
• September 28 - Joshua Sylvester, English poet (b. 1563)
• October 29 - Sir Walter Raleigh, English courtier and settler of Virginia (executed) (b. 1554)
• November 2 - Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (b. 1558)
• December 6 - Jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (b. 1556)
• December 10 - Giulio Caccini, Italian composer (born 1551)

Date unknown

• Chief Powhatan, whose proper name was Wahunsenacawh, father of Pocahontas (born c.1547)

See also Category: 1618 deaths.

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