Calendar year
May 8 : TheCapture of Bahia in Portuguese Brazil is made by the Dutch East India Company1624 (MDCXXIV ) was aleap year starting on Monday of theGregorian calendar and aleap year starting on Thursday of theJulian calendar , the 1624th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 24th year of the17th century , and the 5th year of the1620s decade. As of the start of 1624, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
January 14 – After 90 years ofOttoman occupation,Baghdad is recaptured by theSafavid Empire .January 22 – Korean GeneralYi Gwal leadsan uprising of 12,000 soldiers againstKing Injo in what is called then theJoseon Kingdom , and occupiesHanseong .January 24 –Afonso Mendes , appointed byPope Gregory XV as Prelate ofEthiopia , arrives atMassawa fromGoa .February 7 – (January 28, 1623/4 old style) England first colonizesSaint Kitts and Nevis .February 11 –Yi Gwal installs Prince Heungan, son of the lateKing Seongjo , to the Korean throne.February 15 –Yi Gwal's Rebellion ends as the rebels murderYi Gwal at the town of Mukbang-ri.February 16 –Kara Mustafa Pasha becomes theOttoman Governor of Egypt for the second time.February 19 February 28 – A decree is issued inNorway making it illegal forJesuits or Roman Catholic monks to be harbored in the country.March 2 – The English House of Commons passes a resolution making itillegal for a Member of Parliament (MP) to quit or willfully give up his seat . Afterward, MPs who wish to quit are appointed to an "office of profit ", alegal fiction to allow a resignation.March 25 – In a ceremony,Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor , renews his oath to restore Catholicism in Germany, Bohemia, Hungary and Croatia.April 13 –Garcia Mvemba a Nkanga is enthroned as King Garcia I of the southern African nation ofKongo (now inAngola ), upon the death of his father,King Pedro II .April 15 – TheUniversity of Saint Francis Xavier is founded inBolivia .April 29 –Louis XIII of France appointsCardinal Richelieu to theConseil du Roi May 8 –Capture of Bahia : ADutch West India Company fleet captures the Brazilian city ofSalvador, Bahia from thePortuguese Empire (at this time in theIberian Union ).May 11 – amajor earthquake in Fez, Morocco , estimated magnitude 6.0Mw May 24 The city ofOslo , Norway, is destroyed by fire for the fourteenth time.[ 2] Christian IV of Denmark –Norway decrees its rebuilding on a new site, where it will be renamedChristiania . After years of unprofitable operation,Virginia 's charter is revoked, and it becomes a royal colony. May 25 – The Scottish city ofDunfermline is destroyed by fire, butThe Abbey ,The Palace , theAbbot House and many other buildings survive.May – The first Dutch settlers arrive inNew Netherland ; they disembark atGovernors Island .June 10 –Treaty of Compiègne is signed between theKingdom of France and theDutch Republic .[ 3] July 30 – A contingent of 5,000 Chinese troops and 50 warships under the command of AdmiralYu Zigao and General Wang Mengxiongattacks the Dutch fortress at the island of Magong, the largest of thePenghu islands under the command ofMartinus Sonck . Outnumbered, the Dutch surrender in five days.August 4 – TheDutch East India Company agrees to Chinese demands to withdraw its operations from thePenghu islands, and relocates its trading post toFort Zeelandia and the Dutch-controlled island ofFormosa , nowTainan onTaiwan .August 5 –The King's Men performThomas Middleton 'ssatire A Game at Chess Globe Theatre in London. The performances are suppressed on August 14 in view of the play's allusions to theSpanish Match .[ 4] August 13 –Cardinal Richelieu is appointed byLouis XIII of France to be hischief minister , having intrigued againstCharles de La Vieuville ,Superintendent of Finances , arrested for corruption the previous day.August 24 –Jasper Vinall becomes the first person to die while playing the sport ofcricket , after being struck on the head with a bat during a game atHorsted Keynes inEngland .[ 5] August 28 – TheSiege of Breda begins, and will continue for just over 9 months until June 5, 1625.August – PortugueseJesuit priestAntónio de Andrade becomes the first European to enterTibet , arriving atTsaparang .[ 6] September 4 – TheParlement of Paris registers a decree forbidding the publication of criticism of "anciently approved authors" without prior approval from the Faculty of Theology of the University of Paris, on pain of death.[ 7] September 13 –Ketevan , formerqueen consort ofKakheti (located aroundGremi in what is now the Republic of Georgia), is tortured and killed in the Persian city ofShiraz after refusing to renounce Christianity to convert toIslam .September 19 –Michael I , theTsar of Russia , is married at Moscow, makingMaria Dolgorukova the Tsaritsa. Maria becomes ill shortly afterward and dies five months after the marriage, on January 17.September 21 – The Roman Catholic church'sDicastery for the Clergy issues a decree that no monk may be expelled from his order "unless he be truly incorrigible."
Guarino Guarini Pierre Lambert de la Motte Lambert Doomer Thomas Sydenham Murad Bakhsh Barent Fabritius January 7 –Guarino Guarini , Italian architect of the Piedmontese Baroque (d.1683 )January 9 –Empress Meishō of Japan (d.1696 )January 15 –Rombout Verhulst , Dutch sculptor (d.1698 )January 16 –Pierre Lambert de la Motte , French bishop (d.1679 )January 18 –Thyrsus González de Santalla , Spanish theologian electedSuperior General of the Society of Jesus (d.1705 )January 26 –George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d.1705 )January 31 –Arnold Geulincx , Flemish philosopher (d.1669 )February 11 February 23 –Robert Treat , American colonial leader (d.1710 )March –Jane Leade , English esotericist (d.1704 )March 6 –Johann Georg Albinus , German pastor and hymnist (d.1679 )March 12 –Damian Hartard von der Leyen-Hohengeroldseck , German archbishop (d.1678 )March 20 –William Jones , English lawyer, Deputy Governor of Connecticut (d.1706 )March 21 March 25 –William Pulteney , English Member of Parliament (d.1691 )March 31 –Antoine Pagi , French ecclesiastical historian (d.1699 )April 4 –François Marie, Prince of Lillebonne , French nobleman and member of the House of Lorraine (d.1694 )April 9 –Henrik Rysensteen , Dutch military engineer (d.1679 )April 12 –Charles Amadeus, Duke of Nemours (d.1652 )April 15 –Pieter Nijs , Dutch Golden Age painter (d.1681 )April 20 –Samuel Mearne , English Restoration bookbinder and publisher (d.1683 )April 24 –Jan Peeters I , Flemish Baroque painter (d.1677 )April 25 –Sir Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Baronet , English baronet (d.1669 )April 26 –Johann Leusden , Dutch Calvinist theologian (d.1699 )May 13 –Aleksander Kazimierz Sapieha , Polish nobleman and archbishop (d.1671 )May 23 –William Duckett , English politician (d.1686 )May 30 –Leopold Frederick, Duke of Württemberg-Montbéliard , German noble (d.1662 )June 11 –Jean-Baptiste du Hamel , French cleric and natural philosopher (d.1706 )June 15 –Hiob Ludolf , German orientalist (d.1704 )June 16 –William Bradford , American political and military leader (d.1703 )June 20 –Henry Albin , English minister (d.1696 )June 26 –James Scudamore , English politician (d.1668 )July –George Fox , English founder of theQuakers (d.1691 )[ 11] July 11 –John Collins , English academic and politician (d.1711 )July 18 –Francis Pemberton , English judge, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench (d.1697 )August 6 –Charles Kerr, 2nd Earl of Ancram , English politician (d.1690 )August 11 –John Strode , English politician (d.1679 )August 22 –Jean Regnault de Segrais , French poet and novelist born in Caen (d.1701 )August 23 –Anna Elisabeth of Saxe-Lauenburg , Landgravine consort of Hesse-Homburg (d.1688 )August 24 –Petronella de la Court , Dutch art collector (d.1707 )August 25 –François de la Chaise , French churchman (d.1709 )August 27 –Koxinga , Chinese military leader (d.1662 )September 1 –Simón González de Acosta , Spanish colonial governor (d.1653 )September 10 –Thomas Sydenham , English physician (d.1689 )September 12 –Wingfield Cromwell, 2nd Earl of Ardglass , English nobleman (d.1668 )September 15 –Francesco Provenzale , Italian Baroque composer and teacher (d.1704 )October 5 (bapt. ) –Gaspar de Witte , Flemish painter (d.1681 )October 9 –Murad Bakhsh ,Mughal prince (d.1661 )October 19 –Robert Danvers , English politician (d.1674 )October 20 –Jan Albertsz Rotius , Dutch painter (d.1666 )October 21 –Edward Harley , English politician (d.1700 )October 26 –Dosoftei , Moldavian Metropolitan (d.1693 )October 30 –Paul Pellisson , French author (d.1693 )November 2 –Sir Thomas Myddelton, 1st Baronet , English politician (d.1663 )November 3 –Jean II d'Estrées , French noble (d.1707 )November 16 –Barent Fabritius , Dutch painter (d.1673 )November 28 –Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d'Andilly , French Jansenist nun (d.1684 )December 16 –Queen Jangnyeol , Korean royal consort (d.1688 )December 17 –Juriaen Jacobsze , Dutch painter (d.1685 )December 18 –John Hull , American colonial merchant and politician (d.1683 )December 25 –Angelus Silesius , German writer (d.1677 )Ketevan the Martyr Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech Simón de Rojas Gaspard Bauhin John Kendrick January 3 –Jacopo Inghirami , Tuscan admiral (b.1565 )January 17 –Tamás Erdődy , Hungarian noble,Ban of Croatia (b.1558 )January 24 –Martin Becanus , Dutch Jesuit priest (b.1563 )February 4 –Vicente Espinel , Spanish writer (b.1550 )February 6 –Lamoral, 1st Prince of Ligne (b.1563 )February 7 –Cort Aslakssøn , Norwegian astronomer (b.1564 )February 12 –George Heriot , Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist (b.1563 )February 13 –Stephen Gosson , English satirist (b.1554 )February 16 –Ludovic Stewart, 2nd Duke of Lennox , Scottish nobleman and politician (b.1574 )February 17 –Juan de Mariana , Spanish historian (b.1536 )February 18 –Francis Ros , first Latin Archbishop of Angamaly-Cranganore (b.1559 )February 19 –Thomas Fleming , English politician (b.1572 )February 21 –John Adolph, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Norburg , Duke of Norburg at Als (b.1576 )February 24 –Paul Laurentius , German divine (b.1554 )February 28 –Clemens Timpler , German philosopher (b.1563 )March 15 –Louis of Anhalt-Köthen , German prince (b.1607 )March 27 –Ulrik of Denmark , Danish prince-bishop (b.1578 )March 28 –Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset , English noble (b.1589 )July –Alonso Fajardo de Entenza , governor of the PhilippinesJuly 17 –Johan van Dorth , Dutch noble (b.1574 )July 22 –García de Silva Figueroa , Spanish diplomat and traveller (b.1550 )July 31 –Henry II, Duke of Lorraine (b.1563 )August 4 –Emanuel Filibert of Savoy , Viceroy of Sicily (b.1588 )August 21 –Francesco Andreini , Italian actor (b. c.1548 )[ 16] August 25 –Luis Sotelo , Spanish Franciscan friar (b.1574 )September –Marco Antonio de Dominis , Dalmatian archbishop and apostate (b.1560 ) September 13 –Ketevan the Martyr , queen of Kakheti (b. c.1560 )September 17 –Gilles du Monin , Belgian Jesuit historian (b.1565 )September 18 –Pedro Osores de Ulloa , Royal Governor of Chile (b.1554 )September 23 –Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech , Dutch Golden Age painter (b.1592 )September 25 –Fronton du Duc , French Jesuit theologian (b.1558 )September 29 –Simón de Rojas , Spanish saint (b.1552 )November 2 –Cornelis van der Voort , Dutch painter (b.1576 )November 5 –James Wriothesley, Lord Wriothesley , English politician (b.1605 )November 10 –Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton , English patron of the theatre (b.1573 )November 13 –Thomas van Erpe , Dutch Orientialist, cartographer (b.1584 )November 14 –Costanzo Antegnati , Italian composer, organist (b.1549 )November 15 –Caius of Korea , Japanese martyr (b.1571 )November 17 –Jakob Böhme , German mystic (b.1575 )December 5 –Gaspard Bauhin , Swiss botanist (b.1560 )December 6 –Francesco Contarini , Doge of Venice (b.1556 )December 9 –Flaminio Scala , Italian playwright and stage actor (b.1552 )December 14 –Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham , 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