Calendar year
June 3 :Battle of Dōmyōji 1615 (MDCXV ) was acommon year starting on Thursday of theGregorian calendar and acommon year starting on Sunday of theJulian calendar , the 1615th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 15th year of the17th century , and the 6th year of the1610s decade. As of the start of 1615, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
January 1 – TheNew Netherland Company is granted a three-yearmonopoly inNorth American trade, between the40th and45th parallels .January 30 – Japan's diplomatic mission to Europe, led byHasekura Tsunenaga , meets withKing Philip III of Spain atMadrid and presents an offer of a treaty.February 2 – SirThomas Roe sets out to become the first ambassador from the court of theKing of England to theMughal Emperor Jahangir ,[ 1] [ 2] Lyon under the command of captainChristopher Newport .[ 3] February 17 – Japan's envoy to Europe, Hasekura Tsunenaga, receives a Christian baptism by the royal chaplain, Diego de Guzmán, and receives the European name Felipe Francisco Hasekura.[ 4] March 10 –John Ogilvie , a Jesuit priest, ishanged and drawn atGlasgow Cross inScotland for refusing to pledge allegiance toKing James VI of Scotland ; he will becanonised in 1976, becoming the only post-Reformation Scottish saint.October 5 – TheSpánverjavígin , the last massacre to be carried out in Iceland, begins as 14Basque Whalers fromSpain are murdered atThingeyri while sleeping. Another 18 are killed on October 13, including Captain Martín de Villafranca. The 31 had been survivors of a shipwreck on Iceland in September.October 27 – In Russia, thesiege of Pskov ends with the withdrawal of Swedish Army troops. The siege is the last battle of theIngrian War .November 3 – Japanese diplomatHasekura Tsunenaga and his delegation are received byPope Paul V inRome , and present a request for trade between the Roman Catholic Church and the Japanese shogunate[ 8] November 7 – The Portuguese freighterNossa Senhora da Luz , carrying 150 crew and a cargo of Chinese and Burmese goods, sinks in a storm near the Azores.November 22 –Alexandru Movilă is installed asPrince of Moldavia by Poland as PrinceȘtefan IX Tomșa is driven from the throne.November 24 –King Louis XIII of France marriesPrincess Ana María Mauricia , the 14-year-old daughter ofKing Philip III of Spain . The two had been legally united in a marriage by proxy on October 18.November – TheMughals underJahangir launch the first offensive againstKajali , a border post of theAhom kingdom .December 2 – In theVenetian Republic ,Giovanni Bembo is elected chief executive as the newDoge of Venice after the October 31 death ofMarcantonio Memmo .December 6 – InEngland ,John Winthrop , later governor of the futureMassachusetts Bay Colony , marries his second wife (of four), Thomasine Clopton, daughter of William Clopton of Castleins, nearGroton, Suffolk .December 18 –Francisco de Borja y Aragón becomes the newViceroy of Peru , a colony of Spain encompassing all ofSpanish language -speakingSouth America and what are now the nations of Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, and Uruguay.December 20 – TheUskok War begins after the ports of the Holy Roman Empire on the Adriatic Sea are blockaded by the Republic of Venice, which has hired English and Dutch mercenaries.Easter – PersianSafavid hordes, led by ShahAbbas the Great , kill all the monks at theDavid Gareja monastery complex inGeorgia , and set fire to its collection of manuscripts and works of art. Mary Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury , is released from theTower of London , in recognition of her role in helping to discover the murder of SirThomas Overbury .TheSomers Isles Company is founded to administerBermuda . John Browne is created the firstKing's Gunfounder in England.Austrian merchants receive economic privileges in theOttoman Empire . The Perse School inCambridge , England, is founded by DrStephen Perse .Wilson's School inWallington , near London, is founded by Royal Charter.TheGrolsch Brewery is founded inGroenlo ,Netherlands . Konoike Shinroku opens an office inOsaka , and begins shipping tax-rice from westernJapan to Osaka. Johannes Kepler publishesDissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo , in response toGalileo 's discovery ofJupiter 's moons.[ 9] Manuel Dias , a PortugueseJesuit missionary , introduces thetelescope for the first time inChina , in his bookTian Wen Lüe (Explicatio Sphaerae Coelestis ).The second volume ofMiguel de Cervantes 'sDon Quixote ("El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha")Don Quixote eventually becomes the only truly famous work its author ever writes. Govert Flinck Pieter de Groot Erdmann August of Brandenburg-Bayreuth Richard Baxter January 6 –Richard Waldron , colonial settler, acting President of the Province of New Hampshire (d.1689 )January 10 –Sir John Robinson, 1st Baronet, of London , English politician (d.1680 )January 13 –Henrik Bjelke , Norwegian military officer (d.1683 )January 14 –John Biddle , English theologian (d.1662 )January 20 –Karmabai , Indian Jat known as Bhakt Shiromani Karmabai (d.1634 )January 25 –Govert Flinck , Dutch painter of the Dutch Golden Age (d.1660 )January 27 –Nicolas Fouquet , French Superintendent of Finances (d.1680 )[ 10] January 30 –Thomas Rolfe , only child of Pocahontas and her English husband (d.1675 )February 18 –Maria Caterina Farnese , Duchess of Modena and Reggio (d.1646 )February 27 –Isaac Thornton , English politician (d.1669 )March 10 –Hans Ulrik Gyldenløve , illegitimate son of King Christian IV of Denmark and his mistress (d.1645 )March 11 –Johann Weikhard of Auersperg , Austrian prime minister (d.1677 )March 13 –Pope Innocent XII (d.1700 )[ 11] March 17 –Gregorio Carafa , Grandmaster of the Order of Saint John (d.1690 )March 20 –Dara Shikoh , Indian prince (d.1659 )March 22 –Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh , English female scientist (d.1691 )March 28 –Pieter de Groot , Dutch diplomat (d.1678 )March 28 –Cosimo Ruggeri , Italian astrologerJuly 1 –Samuel Hales , Connecticut settler and politician (d.1693 )July 9 –Sir Thomas Sclater, 1st Baronet , English politician (d.1684 )July 22 –Marguerite of Lorraine , princess of Lorraine, duchess of Orléans (d.1672 )July 28 –Charles de Noyelle , French Jesuit Superior General (d.1686 )August 13 –John Sherburne , American colonial (d.1693 )August 15 –Marie de Lorraine, Duchess of Guise (d.1688 )August 18 –John Sadler , British town clerk (d.1674 )September 3 –Mary Bradbury , accused Salem, Massachusetts witch (d.1700 )September 7 –John Birch , English politician (d.1691 )September 12 September 17 –Nicholas Pedley , English politician (d.1685 )September 20 –Giambattista Spinola , Italo-Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal (d.1704 )September 26 –Heinrich Bach , German organist and composer (d.1692 )October 1 –Hugh Bethell , EnglishMember of Parliament and High Sheriff (d.1679 )October 8 –Erdmann August of Brandenburg-Bayreuth , Hereditary Margrave (d.1651 )October 23 –Ove Juul , Governor-General of Norway (d.1686 )October 27 –Christian I, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg , member of the House of Wettin (d.1691 )November 5 –Ibrahim ,Ottoman Sultan (d.1648 )November 12 –Richard Baxter , English Puritan church leader (d.1691 )[ 12] November 19 –Richard Norton of Southwick Park , English politician (d.1691 )November 20 –Francis Dane , American colonial priest (d.1697 )November 24 –Philip William, Elector Palatine (d.1690 )December 6 –Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg (d.1690 )December 7 –Nicodemus Tessin the Elder , Swedish architect (d.1681 )December 9 –Anne Carr, Countess of Bedford , English noble (d.1684 )December 19 –Frederick, Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt , German duke (d.1682 )December 21 –Benedict Arnold , Rhode Island colonial governor (d.1678 )December 29 –Charles Scarborough , English physician, mathematician (d.1694 )Date unknown: Virginia de' Medici John Ogilvie Cherubino Alberti Gervase Helwys Gerard Reynst January 15 –Virginia de' Medici , Italian princess (b.1568 )January 16 –Roger Fenton , English clergyman (b.1565 )January 31 –Claudio Acquaviva , Italian Jesuit priest, elected (in1581 ) the 5th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b.1543 )February 4 –Giambattista della Porta , Italian scholar, polymath, playwright (b.1535 )February 3 orFebruary 5 –Dom Justo Takayama , Japanese warlord (b.1552 )March 4 –Hans von Aachen , German painter (b.1552 )March 6 –Pieter Both , first Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b.1568 )March 10 –John Ogilvie , Scottish Catholic Jesuit martyr (b.1579 )March 19 –Henry Pierrepont , English politician (b.1546 )March 27 –Margaret of 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