1615

	1615 in topic:
	Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
	Art – Literature – Music – Science
	Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
	Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
	Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1580s 1590s 1600s – 1610s – 1620s 1630s 1640s
Years:	1612 1613 1614 – 1615 – 1616 1617 1618

Year 1615 (MDCXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

[edit] Events of 1615

1 January – The New Netherland Company is granted a 3-year monopoly in North American trade between the 40th and 45th parallels.
March 10 – Saint John Ogilvie, a Catholic priest, is hanged in Glasgow, Scotland.
May 6 – The Peace of Tyrnau is signed between Holy Roman Emperor Matthias and Gábor Bethlen.
June 2 – The first Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
June 4 – Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan, beginning a period of peace which lasts nearly 250 years. Bands of Christian samurai support Ieyasu's enemies at the Battle of Osaka.

November – The Mughals under Abu Bakr launch the first offensive against Kajali, a border post of the Ahom kingdom.
November – Hasekura Tsunenaga visits Pope Paul V in Rome to request a trade treaty between Japan and Mexico.
December 6 – In England, John Winthrop, later governor of the future Massachusetts Bay Colony, marries his second wife (of 4), Thomasine Clopton, daughter of William Clopton of Castleins, near Groton, England.

The second volume of Miguel Cervantes' Don Quixote ("El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha") is published.
The Sengoku Period ends in Japan.
The Grolsch Brewery is founded in Groenlo, Netherlands.
Persian hordes led by Shah-Abbas kill all the monks at the David Gareja monastery complex in Georgia, and set fire to its collection of manuscripts and works of art.
Mary Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury, is released from the Tower of London in recognition of her role in helping to discover the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury.
The Somers Isles Company is founded to administer Bermuda.
Johannes Kepler publishes Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo in response to Galileo's discovery of Jupiter's moons.
King James I of Great Britain sends Sir Thomas Roe as his ambassador to the Mughal court of Jahangir.
The Perse School in Cambridge, England, is founded by Dr Stephen Perse.
John Browne is created as the first King's Gunfounder
Austrian merchants receive economic privileges in Turkey.
Wilson's School is founded by Royal Charter.
Konoike Shinroku opens an office in Osaka. He begins shipping tax-rice from wester Japan to Osaka.
Manuel Dias (Yang MaNuo), a Portuguese jesuit missionary introduces for the first time in China the telescope in his book Tian Wen Lüe (Explicatio Sphaerae Coelestis).

See also Category:1615 births.

January 31 – Claudio Aquaviva, Italian Jesuit (b. 1543)
February 4 – Dom Justo Takayama, Japanese warlord (b. 1552)
March 4 – Hans von Aachen, German painter (b. 1552)
May 4 – Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (b. 1561)
May 7 – Sanada Yukimura, legendary Japanese samurai (b. 1567)
May 27 – Marguerite de Valois, queen of Henry IV of France (b. 1553)
June 23 – Mashita Nagamori, minor Japanese daimyo (b. 1545)
September 1 – Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and man of letters (b. 1529)
September 27 – Arbella Stuart, English noblewoman and woman of letters (b. 1575)
Late November – Edward Wright, English mathematician and cartographer (b. 1561)
November 24 – Sethus Calvisius, German calendar reformer (b. 1556)

See also Category:1615 deaths.