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Calendar year
May 13 :Grand pensionary Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed inThe Hague 1619 (MDCXIX ) was acommon year starting on Tuesday of theGregorian calendar and acommon year starting on Friday of theJulian calendar , the 1619th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini (AD) designations, the 619th year of the2nd millennium , the 19th year of the17th century , and the 10th and last year of the1610s decade. As of the start of 1619, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
July 30 – InJamestown, Virginia , the first English-speaking representative assembly in the Americas, theVirginia General Assembly (later namedHouse of Burgesses ), convenes for the first time.[ 7] August 5 –Thirty Years' War :Battle of Věstonice –Bohemian forces defeat the Austrians.August 10 – TheTreaty of Angoulême ends the French civil war betweenLouis XIII and his mother,Marie de' Medici .August 20 – Agroup of "twenty and odd" enslaved Africans , onboard theprivateer shipWhite Lion (the first in the state of Virginia), are landed atPoint Comfort incolonial Virginia .[ 8] [ 9] August 26 –Frederick V of the Palatinate is electedKing of Bohemia by the states of the Bohemian Confederacy.August 28 –Ferdinand II , Archduke of Austria and King of Bohemia, is electedHoly Roman Emperor unanimously by theprince-electors .September 5 – In the course of a revolt against the Habsburg Empire, PrinceGabriel Bethlen ofTransylvania (now in Romania) conquersKassa (now Košice in Slovakia) with the help ofGeorge I Rákóczi .September 7 –Gaj Singh Rathore becomes the new Raja ofMarwar (within the Mughal Empire) atJodhpur in what is now the Indian state of Rajasthan, succeeding his father,Sur Singh .September 9 – The coronation of Ferdinand II takes place in Vienna.September 18 (7 Thout 1336 on theCoptic calendar ) – Abba Yoannis El-Mallawany of Egypt becomes the new head of the Coptic Christian Church asPope John XV of Alexandria succeeding the latePope Mark V , who died on September 11.October 8 –Thirty Years' War – TheTreaty of Munich is signed by Ferdinand II andMaximilian I, Elector of Bavaria .[ 10] November 10 – While stationed along the Danube river with Bavarian troops,René Descartes , according to his biographerAdrien Baillet , has a series of dreams giving him the idea of applying the mathematical method to philosophy.November 16 –William Parker School ,Hastings , England, is founded by the will of Reverend William Parker.November 23 –Thirty Years' War –Battle of Humenné : PolishLisowczycy troops assist the Holy Roman Emperor by defeating a Transylvanian force, forcingGabor Bethlen to raise his siege ofVienna .December 4 – Thirty-eightcolonists fromEngland disembark inBerkeley Hundred ,Virginia from theMargaret of Bristol and have a day of celebration to give thanks toGod , in what is considered by some historians to be the firstThanksgiving in the Americas.Charles Le Brun Peter Mews Anna Sophia I, Abbess of Quedlinburg Jan van Riebeeck Carel van Savoyen Rijcklof van Goens Anne Geneviève de Bourbon January 10 –Philip Sidney, 3rd Earl of Leicester , English politician (d.1698 )January 14 January 17 –Johanna Elisabeth of Nassau-Hadamar , by marriage Princess of Anhalt-Harzgerode (d.1647 )January 21 January 24 –Yamazaki Ansai , Japanese philosopher (d.1682 )January 30 –Michelangelo Ricci , Roman Catholic cardinal, mathematician (d.1682 )February 1 –Robert Phelips , English politician (d.1707 )February 2 –Walter Charleton , English natural philosopher (d.1707 )February 9 –Queen Inseon , Korean royal consort (d.1674 )February 15 –Tsugaru Nobuyoshi , Japanese daimyō (d.1655 )February 24 February 26 –Francesco Morosini , Doge of Venice from 1688 to 1694 (d.1694 )February 28 –Giuseppe Felice Tosi , Italian composer (d.1693 )March 2 –Marcantonio Giustinian , 107th Doge of Venice (d.1688 )March 5 –Joseph Ames , English naval commander (d.1695 )March 6 –Cyrano de Bergerac , French soldier and poet (d.1655 )March 13 –Tobias Lohner , Austrian Jesuit theologian (d.1697 )[ 12] March 15 –Jean Le Vacher , French Lazarist missionary and French consul (d.1683 )March 20 –Georg Albrecht, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach (d.1666 )March 25 –Peter Mews , English Royalist theologian and bishop (d.1706 )March 28 –Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz (1657–1681) (d.1681 )July 3 –Hyojong of Joseon , 17th king of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea (1649–1659) (d.1659 )July 13 –Birgitta Durell , Swedish industrialist (d.1683 )July 27 –Sir Henry Felton, 2nd Baronet , English Member of Parliament (d.1690 )August 5 –Thomas Hall , English politician (d.1667 )August 6 –Barbara Strozzi , Italian singer and composer (d.1677 )August 7 –Anna Catherine Constance Vasa , Polish princess, daughter of King Sigismund III Vasa (d.1651 )August 15 August 21 –Sir John Borlase, 1st Baronet , English politician (d.1672 )August 28 August 29 –Jean-Baptiste Colbert , French minister of finance (d.1683 )September 20 –Sophie Elisabeth Pentz , daughter of Christian IV of Denmark (d.1657 )September 21 –Sir John Wray, 3rd Baronet , English politician (d.1664 )October 8 –Philipp von Zesen , German poet (d.1689 )October 10 October 14 –Sir John Bright, 1st Baronet , English politician (d.1688 )October 16 –Johann Friedrich König , German Lutheran theologian (d.1664 )October 18 –Jean Armand de Maillé-Brézé , French admiral (d.1646 )October 27 –Frederick Louis, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (d.1681 )November 5 –Philips Koninck , Dutch painter (d.1688 )November 7 –Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux , French writer known for hisHistoriettes (d.1692 )November 14 –Thomas Howard, 3rd Earl of Berkshire , English politician, earl (d.1706 )November 25 –Henry Mildmay , English politician (d.1692 )December 10 –Thomas Dyke , English politician (d.1669 )December 13 –Andrij Savka , Lemko bandit (d.1661 )December 17 –Prince Rupert of the Rhine , Bohemian-born Royalist commander in the English Civil War (d.1682 )December 28 –Antoine Furetière , French writer (d.1688 )December 31 Donald Cargill , Scottish Covenanter (d.1681 )Gu Mei , politically influential ChineseGējì , poet and painter (d.1664 )Samuel Collins , English doctor and author (d.1670 )Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 8th Duke of Alburquerque , Spanish military officer and viceroy (d.1676 )Willem Kalf , Dutch painter (d.1693 )Kumazawa Banzan , Japanese philosopher (d.1691 )Shalom Shabazi , Jewish Yemeni rabbi and poet (d. c.1720 )Wang Fuzhi , Chinese philosopher (d.1692 )Lucilio Vanini Taj Bibi Bilqis Makani Lawrence of Brindisi Marko Krizin Sur Singh Ludovico Carracci January 7 –Nicholas Hilliard , English miniature painter (b. c.1547 )January 11 –Diane de France , Duchess of Angoulême (b.1538 )January 15 –Thomas Clinton, 3rd Earl of Lincoln , English politician (b.1568 )January 20 –Éléonore de Bourbon , Dutch princess (b.1587 )February 3 –Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham , English conspirator (b.1564 )February 9 –Lucilio Vanini , Italian philosopher (b.1585 )February 12 –Pierre de Larivey , Italian-born French dramatist (b.1549 )February 16 –William Couper , Scottish bishop of Galloway (b.1568 )March 2 March 5 –Demeter Naprágyi , Hungarian Catholic archbishop (b.1564 )March 13 –Richard Burbage , English actor (b. c.1567 )[ 14] March 15 March 18 –Chō Tsuratatsu , Japanese samurai (b.1546 )March 20 April 5 –Alexander Home, 1st Earl of Home , Scottish nobleman (b.1566 )April 10 –Thomas Jones , Anglican Archbishop of Dublin (b. c.1550 )April 16 –Denis Calvaert , Flemish painter (b.1540 )April 18 –Taj Bibi Bilqis Makani , Mughal empress (b.1573 )April /May –William Larkin , English court portrait painter (b. early 1580s)May –John Overall , English bishop (b.1559 )May 13 –Johan van Oldenbarnevelt , Dutch statesman (b.1547 )May 21 –Hieronymus Fabricius , Italian anatomist (b.1537 )May 23 –Stephen Soame , Lord Mayor of London (b.1540 )June 18 –Martin Fréminet , French painter (b.1567 )^ "Fires, Great", inThe Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance , Cornelius Walford, ed. 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