1614

This article is about the year 1614.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1580s  1590s  1600s  – 1610s –  1620s  1630s  1640s
Years:	1611 1612 1613 – 1614 – 1615 1616 1617

1614 by topic:

Arts and Science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1614 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1614 MDCXIV
Ab urbe condita	2367
Armenian calendar	1063 ԹՎ ՌԿԳ
Assyrian calendar	6364
Bahá'í calendar	-230–-229
Bengali calendar	1021
Berber calendar	2564
English Regnal year	11 Ja. 1 – 12 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar	2158
Burmese calendar	976
Byzantine calendar	7122–7123
Chinese calendar	癸丑年十一月廿一日 (4250/4310-11-21) — to — 甲寅年十二月初一日 (4251/4311-12-1)
Coptic calendar	1330–1331
Ethiopian calendar	1606–1607
Hebrew calendar	5374–5375
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1670–1671
- Shaka Samvat	1536–1537
- Kali Yuga	4715–4716
Holocene calendar	11614
Iranian calendar	992–993
Islamic calendar	1022–1023
Japanese calendar	Keichō 19 (慶長19年)
Korean calendar	3947
Minguo calendar	298 before ROC 民前298年
Thai solar calendar	2157

Pocahontas marries John Rolfe.

Year 1614 (MDCXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• April 5 – Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe in Jamestown, Virginia.

July–December

• August 23 – The University of Groningen is established in the Netherlands.
• September 1 – In England, Sir Julius Caesar becomes Master of the Rolls.
• October 11 – Adriaen Block and a group of Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the area he explored and named "New Netherland".
• November 16 – The Treaty of Xanten ends the War of the Jülich succession.
• November 19 – Start of hostilities resulting from an attempt by Toyotomi Hideyorito restore Osaka Castle. Tokugawa Ieyasu, father of the Shogun, is outraged at this act, and leads three thousand men across the Kizu River, destroying the fort there.
• December 4 – The Siege of Osaka begins.

Date unknown

• The French Estates-General meets for the last time before the era of the French Revolution. In between, France will be governed as an absolute monarchy.
• John Napier publishes Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio, a paper outlining his discovery of logarithms.
• The Rosicrucian Order is instituted in Germany according to Fraternitas Rosae Crucis.
• Christianity banned throughout Japan

Births

• January 1 – John Wilkins, English clergyman (d. 1672)
• January 5 – Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (d. 1662)
• July 10 – Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (d. 1686)
• December 16 – Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1674)
• date unknown – Franciscus Sylvius, German scientist (d. 1672)

Deaths

• April 7 – El Greco, or Domênikos Theotokópoulos (Greek: Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος), Cretian painter, sculptor and architect (b. 1541)
• June 15 – Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, English politician (b. 1540)
• July 1 – Isaac Casaubon, French-born classical scholar (b. 1559)
• July 14 – Camillus de Lellis, Italian saint (b. 1550)
• July 15 – Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, French historian and biographer
• July 16 – Tsarevich Ivan Dmitriyevich, son of False Dmitriy II
• August 11 – Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (b. 1552)
• August 21 – Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian serial killer (b. 1560)
• September – Giovanni de Macque, composer (b. c. 1550)