1611
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Template:C17YearInTopicX Year 1611 (MDCXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1611
April
- April 28 - The Colegio de Nuestra Señora del Santísimo Rosario is established in Manila, the Philippines (later renamed Colegio de Santo Tomas, now known as the University of Santo Tomas).
July - December
- August 2 - Jamestown: Deputy Governor Sir Thomas Gates returns to Virginia with 280 people, provisions and cattle on 6 ships and assumes control, ruling that the fort must be strengthened.
- September - Jamestown: Thomas Dale, with 350 men, starts building Henricus.
- October 30 - Gustavus Adolphus succeeds his father Charles IX as king of Sweden.
- November 1 - At Whitehall Palace in London, William Shakespeare's romantic comedy The Tempest is performed for the first time.
Undated
- The complete King James Version of the Bible is first published in England.
- Johannes and David Fabricius discover sunspots.
- Emperor Go-Mizunoo succeeds Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan.
- Jamestown: John Rolfe imports tobacco seeds from the island of Trinidad (Nicotiana tabacum); the native tobacco is Nicotiana rustica.
- Thomas Dale founds the city of Henricus on the James River, a few miles south of present day Richmond, Virginia.
- Denmark attacks Sweden.
- George Abbot becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Construction begins on Naghsh-i Jahan Square in Isfahan, Persia.
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1611 MDCXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2364 |
| Armenian calendar | 1060 ԹՎ ՌԿ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6361 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1532–1533 |
| Bengali calendar | 1018 |
| Berber calendar | 2561 |
| English Regnal year | 8 Ja. 1 – 9 Ja. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2155 |
| Burmese calendar | 973 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7119–7120 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 4308 or 4101 — to — 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 4309 or 4102 |
| Coptic calendar | 1327–1328 |
| Discordian calendar | 2777 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1603–1604 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5371–5372 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1667–1668 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1532–1533 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4711–4712 |
| Holocene calendar | 11611 |
| Igbo calendar | 611–612 |
| Iranian calendar | 989–990 |
| Islamic calendar | 1019–1020 |
| Japanese calendar | Keichō 16 (慶長１６年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1531–1532 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
| Korean calendar | 3944 |
| Minguo calendar | 301 before ROC 民前301年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 143 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2153–2154 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳金狗年 (male Iron-Dog) 1737 or 1356 or 584 — to — 阴金猪年 (female Iron-Pig) 1738 or 1357 or 585 |
- January 28 - Johannes Hevelius, astronomer (d. 1687)
- May 16 - Pope Innocent XI (d. 1689)
- July 16 - Archduchess Cecilia Renata of Austria, Queen of Poland (d. 1644)
- September 1 - William Cartwright (d. 1643)
- September 8 - Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (d. 1671)
- September 11 - Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, Marshal of France (d. 1675)
- November 1 - François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (d. 1656)
- date unknown
- Karl Eusebius of Liechtenstein, second Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1684)
- Diego Quispe Tito, Peruvian painter (d. 1681)
- probable
- D'Artagnan, musketeer (d. 1673)
- See also Category:1611 births.
Deaths
- February 12 - Jodocus Hondius, cartographer (b. 1563)
- February 26 - Antonio Possevino, papal legate to Russia
- March 5 - Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1533)
- June 8 - Jean Bertaut, French poet (b. 1552)
- July 26 - Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542)
- August 2 - Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1562)
- August 20 - Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer (b. 1548?)
- October 3 - Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (b. 1554)
- October 30 - King Charles IX of Sweden (b. 1550)
- date unknown - Camillo Mariani, sculptor (b. 1565)
- date unknown - Henry Hudson, explorer (b. 1560)
- See also Category:1611 deaths.