1619

This article is about the year 1619. For the number, see 1619 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1580s 1590s 1600s – 1610s – 1620s 1630s 1640s
Years:	1616 1617 1618 – 1619 – 1620 1621 1622

1619 by topic:
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Establishments - Disestablishments
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1619 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1619 MDCXIX
Ab urbe condita	2372
Armenian calendar	1068 ԹՎ ՌԿԸ
Assyrian calendar	6369
Bengali calendar	1026
Berber calendar	2569
English Regnal year	16 Ja. 1 – 17 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar	2163
Burmese calendar	981
Byzantine calendar	7127–7128
Chinese calendar	戊午年 (Earth Horse) 4315 or 4255 — to — 己未年 (Earth Goat) 4316 or 4256
Coptic calendar	1335–1336
Discordian calendar	2785
Ethiopian calendar	1611–1612
Hebrew calendar	5379–5380
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1675–1676
- Shaka Samvat	1541–1542
- Kali Yuga	4720–4721
Holocene calendar	11619
Igbo calendar	619–620
Iranian calendar	997–998
Islamic calendar	1028–1029
Japanese calendar	Genna 5 (元和５年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3952
Minguo calendar	293 before ROC 民前293年
Thai solar calendar	2161–2162

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1619 (MDCXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter F) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday (dominical letter C) of the Julian calendar, the 1619th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 619th year of the 2nd millennium, the 19th year of the 17th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1610s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1619 is 10 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

Events

January–June

January – James I of England's Banqueting House, Whitehall in London is destroyed by fire. Inigo Jones is commissioned to design a replacement.
March – Battle of Sarhu: Manchu leader Nurhaci is victorious over the Ming forces.
March 20 – Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor dies, leaving the Holy Roman Empire without an official leader to deal with the Bohemian Revolt.
May 8 – The Synod of Dort has its final meeting.
May 13 – Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after having been convicted of treason.
May 30 – Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Governor General of the Dutch East Indies, conquers Jayakarta and renames it Batavia.
June 10 – Thirty Years' War – Battle of Sablat: Protestant forces are defeated.
June 21 – Dulwich College founded by Edward Alleyn, in Dulwich, London.

July–December

July 30 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
August 5 – Thirty Years' War – Battle of Věstonice: Bohemian forces defeat the Austrians.
August 10 – The Treaty of Angoulême ends the civil war in France.
August 26 – Frederick V, Elector Palatine is elected the King of Bohemia.
August 28 – Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
October 8 – Thirty Years' War – The Treaty of Munich is signed by Ferdinand II and Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria.
November 16 – William Parker School, Hastings is founded by the will of Rev. William Parker
November 23 – Thirty Years' War – Battle of Humenné: Polish troops assist the Holy Roman Emperor by defeating a Transylvanian force, forcing Gabor Bethlen to raise his siege of Vienna.
December 4 – Thirty-eight colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (considered by some to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas).

Date unknown

Jahangir grants a British mission important commercial concessions at Surat on the west coast of India.
England establishes its first outpost in India.
The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth reaches the height of its territorial extent.
Salé Rovers declare the port of Salé on the Barbary Coast to be the Republic of Salé, independent of the Sultan of Morocco, with the Dutch-born corsair Jan Janszoon as president.
The Danish–Dutch whaling settlement of Smeerenburg is founded in Svalbard.
An expedition in Sri Lanka led by Phillippe de Oliveira deposes and executes the last Jaffna king Cankili II, putting an end to the Jaffna kingdom.
A Spanish expedition sails around Tierra del Fuego, mapping the coast and discovering the Diego Ramírez Islands.

Births

Charles Le Brun born 24 February

Peter Mews born 25 March

Anna Sophia I, Abbess of Quedlinburg born 2 April

Jan van Riebeeck born 21 April

Carel van Savoyen born 6 June

Rijcklof van Goens born 24 June

Anne Geneviève de Bourbon born 28 August

January–March

January 10 – Philip Sidney, 3rd Earl of Leicester, English politician (d. 1698)
January 14
- Thomas Archer, English politician (d. 1685)
- Alexander von Spaen, German general (d. 1692)
January 17 – Johanna Elisabeth of Nassau-Hadamar, by marriage Princess of Anhalt-Harzgerode (d. 1647)
January 21
- Anders Bording, Danish writer (d. 1677)
- John Rashleigh, English politician (d. 1693)
January 24 – Yamazaki Ansai, Japanese philosopher (d. 1682)
January 30 – Michelangelo Ricci, Roman mathematician and Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1682)
February 1 – Robert Phelips, English politician (d. 1707)
February 2 – Walter Charleton, English natural philosopher (d. 1707)
February 9 – Queen Inseon, Korean royal consort (d. 1674)
February 15 – Tsugaru Nobuyoshi, Japanese Daimyo (d. 1655)
February 24
- Robert Aske, merchant in the City of London (d. 1689)
- Charles Le Brun, French painter and art theorist (d. 1690)
February 26 – Francesco Morosini, Doge of Venice from 1688 to 1694 (d. 1694)
February 28 – Giuseppe Felice Tosi, Italian composer (d. 1693)
March 2 – Marcantonio Giustinian, 107th Doge of Venice (d. 1688)
March 5 – Joseph Ames, English naval commander (d. 1695)
March 6 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier and poet (d. 1655)
March 13 – Tobias Lohner, Austrian Jesuit theologian (d. 1697)
March 15 – Jean Le Vacher, French Lazarist missionary and French consul (d. 1683)
March 20 – Georg Albrecht, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach (d. 1666)
March 25 – Peter Mews, English Royalist theologian and bishop (d. 1706)
March 28 – Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz (1657–1681) (d. 1681)

April–June

April 2
- Onofrio Gabrieli, Italian painter (d. 1706)
- Anna Sophia I, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Dutch abbess (d. 1681)
April 11 – Abraham van der Hulst, Dutch admiral (d. 1666)
April 21 – Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch founder of Cape Town (d. 1677)
April 30 – Johannes Spilberg, Dutch painter (d. 1690)
May
- James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair, Scottish lawyer and statesman (d. 1695)
- André Félibien, French court historian (d. 1695)
- Andrew Ramsay, Lord Abbotshall, Scottish judge and politician (d. 1688)
May 20 – Abiezer Coppe, English "Ranter" and pamphleteer (d. 1672)
May 24 – Philips Wouwerman, Dutch painter (d. 1668)
May 26 – Pye Min, King of Burma (d. 1672)
June 6 – Carel van Savoyen, Flemish painter (d. 1665)
June 13 – Jan Victors, Dutch painter (d. 1676)
June 14 – Sir Jeffrey Hudson, English court dwarf (d. 1682)
June 24 – Rijcklof van Goens, Dutch colonial governor (d. 1682)

July–September

July 3 – Hyojong of Joseon, seventeenth king of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea from 1649 to 1659 (d. 1659)
July 27 – Sir Henry Felton, 2nd Baronet, Member of the Parliament of England (d. 1690)
August 5 – Thomas Hall, English politician (d. 1667)
August 6 – Barbara Strozzi, Italian singer and composer (d. 1677)
August 7 – Anna Catherine Constance Vasa, Polish princess, daughter of King Sigismund III Vasa (d. 1651)
August 15
- Francesco Maria Farnese, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1647)
- Hubertus Quellinus, Flemish artist (d. 1687)
August 21 – Sir John Borlase, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1672)
August 28
- Anne Geneviève de Bourbon, French princess who is remembered for her beauty and amours (d. 1679)
- Louis Thomassin, French bishop and theologian (d. 1695)
August 29 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (d. 1683)
September 20 – Sophie Elisabeth Pentz, Daughter of Christian IV of Denmark (d. 1657)
September 21 – Sir John Wray, 3rd Baronet, English politician (d. 1664)

October–December

October 8 – Philipp von Zesen, German poet (d. 1689)
October 10
- Josias Calmady, English Member of Parliament (d. 1683)
- Princess Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg, German princess (d. 1680)
October 14 – Sir John Bright, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1688)
October 16 – Johann Friedrich König, German Lutheran theologian (d. 1664)
October 18 – Jean Armand de Maillé-Brézé, French admiral. (d. 1646)
October 27 – Frederick Louis, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (d. 1681)
November 5 – Philip de Koninck, Dutch painter (d. 1688)
November 7 – Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer known for his Historiettes (d. 1692)
November 14 – Thomas Howard, 3rd Earl of Berkshire, English politician and Earl (d. 1706)
November 25 – Henry Mildmay, English politician (d. 1692)
December 10 – Thomas Dyke, English politician (d. 1669)
December 13 – Andrij Savka, Lemko bandit (d. 1661)
December 17 – Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Bohemian-born Royalist commander in the English Civil War (d. 1682)
December 28 – Antoine Furetière, French writer (d. 1688)
December 31
- John Fitzjames, English politician (d. 1670)
- Sylvester Maurus, Italian Jesuit theologian (d. 1687)
date unknown
- Donald Cargill, Scottish Covenanter (d. 1681)
- Samuel Collins, English doctor and author (d. 1670)
- Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 8th Duke of Alburquerque, Spanish military officer and viceroy (d. 1676)
- Willem Kalf, Dutch painter (d. 1693)
- Kumazawa Banzan, Japanese philosopher (d. 1691)
- Shalom Shabazi, Jewish Yemeni rabbi and poet (d. c. 1720)
- Wang Fuzhi, Chinese philosopher (d. 1692)

Deaths

Lucilio Vanini died 9 February

Taj Bibi Bilqis Makani died 18 April

Lawrence of Brindisi died 22 July

Marko Krizin died 7 September

Sur Singh died 7 September

Ludovico Carracci died 13 November

January–March

January 7 – Nicholas Hilliard, English miniature painter (b. c. 1547)
January 11 – Diane de France, Duchess of Angoulême (b. 1538)
January 15 – Thomas Clinton, 3rd Earl of Lincoln, English politician (b. 1568)
January 20 – Éléonore de Bourbon, Dutch princess (b. 1587)
February 3 – Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (b. 1564)
February 9 – Lucilio Vanini, Italian philosopher (b. 1585)
February 16 – William Couper, Scottish bishop of Galloway (b. 1568)
March 2
- William Cooke, English politician (b. 1572)
- Anne of Denmark, queen of James I of England (b. 1574)
March 5 – Demeter Naprágyi, Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1564)
March 13 – Richard Burbage, English actor (b. c. 1567)
March 15
- Michael Balfour, 1st Lord Balfour of Burleigh, Scottish nobleman
- Orsolya Dersffy, Hungarian noble (b. 1583)
March 18 – Chō Tsuratatsu, Japanese samurai (b. 1546)
March 20
- Ippolito Galantini, founder of the Congregation of Christian Doctrine of Florence (b. 1565)
- Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor, Austrian Habsburg ruler (b. 1557)

April–June

April 5 – Alexander Home, 1st Earl of Home, Scottish nobleman (b. 1566)
April 10 – Thomas Jones, Anglican Archbishop of Dublin (b. c. 1550)
April 16 – Denis Calvaert, Flemish painter (b. 1540)
April 18 – Taj Bibi Bilqis Makani, Mughal empress (b. 1573)
April/May – William Larkin, English court portrait painter (b. early 1580s)
May – John Overall, English bishop (b. 1559)
May 13 – Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (b. 1547)
May 21 – Hieronymus Fabricius, Italian anatomist (b. 1537)
May 23 – Stephen Soame, Lord Mayor of London (b. 1540)
June 18 – Martin Fréminet, French painter (b. 1567)

July–September

July 2 – Francis II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (1586–1619) (b. 1547)
July 22 – Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian saint (b. 1559)
July 24 – Nabeshima Naoshige, Japanese samurai (b. 1537)
August 3 – Dorothy Percy, Countess of Northumberland, younger daughter of Walter Devereux (b. c. 1564)
August 19
- Thomas Dale, English colonial governor
- Jørgen Lunge, Danish politician (b. 1577)
August 29 – Ferdinando Taverna, Catholic cardinal (b. 1558)
August 30 – Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
September – Hans Lippershey, Dutch lensmaker (b. 1570)
September 3 – John Gordon, Scottish bishop (b. 1544)
September 7
- Marko Krizin, Croatian Roman Catholic priest (martyred) (b. 1585)
- István Pongrácz, Hungarian saint (b. 1584)
- Sur Singh, Ruler of Marwar (b. 1571)

October–December

October
- Robert Peake the Elder, English court portrait painter (b. c. 1551)
- Nicholas Yonge, English singer and publisher (b. c. 1560)
October 9 – Joseph Pardo, Italian rabbi and merchant (b. c. 1561)
October 14 – Samuel Daniel, English poet (b. 1562)
October 18 – Petrus Gudelinus, Belgian jurist (b. 1550)
November 13 – Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (b. 1555)
December 23 – John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg from the House of Hohenzollern (b. 1572)
December 29 – Antoine Arnauld, French lawyer (b. 1560)
date unknown
- Bagrat VII of Kartli (b. 1569)
- François d'Amboise, French jurist and writer (b. 1550)
- Thomas Stephens, English Jesuit missionary in Portuguese India (b. c. 1549)

References

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