1618

This article is about the year 1618. For the bill proposed in USA in 1998, see Bill 1618.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1580s  1590s  1600s  – 1610s –  1620s  1630s  1640s
Years:	1615 1616 1617 – 1618 – 1619 1620 1621

1618 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

1618 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1618 MDCXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2371
Armenian calendar	1067 ԹՎ ՌԿԷ
Assyrian calendar	6368
Bahá'í calendar	-226–-225
Bengali calendar	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	丁巳年十二月初五日 (4254/4314-12-5) — to — 戊午年十一月十五日 (4255/4315-11-15)
Coptic calendar	1334–1335
Ethiopian calendar	1610–1611
Hebrew calendar	5378–5379
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1674–1675
- Shaka Samvat	1540–1541
- Kali Yuga	4719–4720
Holocene calendar	11618
Iranian calendar	996–997
Islamic calendar	1027–1028
Japanese calendar	Genna 4 (元和4年)
Korean calendar	3951
Minguo calendar	294 before ROC 民前294年
Thai solar calendar	2161

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

Events

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 hold a mock trial and throw two direct representatives of Ferdinand II of Germany (Imperial Governors) and their scribe out of a window into a pile of manure, exacerbating a low-key rebellion into the Bohemian Revolt (1618–1621) precipitating the Thirty Years' War into armed conflict and further polarizing Europe on religious grounds.
• June 14 – Joris Veseler prints the first Dutch newspaper Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c. in Amsterdam (approximate date).
• July 20 – Pluto reaches, according to sophisticated mathematical calculations, its second most recent aphelion. The next one occurs in 1866, and the following one will occur 2113.

July–December

• August 29 – Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and Hugo Grotius are imprisoned by Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange.
• September 4 – Rodi avalanche: A rock- or snowslide buries the Alpine town of Piuro, claiming 2,427 victims.
• September 18 – Beginning of the 13th Baktun in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar (12.0.0.0.0), the final phase of the Great Cycle.
• September 19–November 21 – Thirty Years' War: The Siege of Plzeň occurs.
• October 9 – residents of Mogilev revolt against the Uniate bishop Josaphat Kuntsevych.
• October 29 – English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
• November 13 – The Synod of Dort has its first meeting.

Date unknown

• The markgraves of Brandenburg are granted Polish approval to inherit the Duchy of Prussia, creating the state of Brandenburg-Prussia.
• Osman II deposes his uncle Mustafa I as Ottoman Emperor (until 1622).
• The 3,000 seat Teatro Farnese, the first permanent proscenium theatre, is built into the Great Hall of the Palazzo della Pilotta in Parma, Italy.
• The Ming Chinese embassy of the Wanli Emperor presents tea to the Russian tsar.

Births

• 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
  • Ādiŧyavoṇś, Ayuthian monarch
  • Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, politician (member of the Cabal)
  • Lin Yiu, Chinese poet and painter (d. 1664).
  • Richard Lovelace, English poet (d. c. 1657)

Deaths

• February 20 – Philip William, Prince of Orange (b. 1554)
• March 23 – James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn, Scottish politician (b. 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 (b. 1551)
• probable – Chief Powhatan (proper name Wahunsenacawh), father of Pocahontas (b. c. 1547)