1618
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Year 1618 (MDCXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
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Events of 1618
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 throw three representatives of Ferdinand II out of a window. The event precipitates the Thirty Years' War.
- June 14 – Estimated date when Joris Veseler prints the first Dutch newspaper Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c. in Amsterdam.
- July 20 - Pluto reached, according to sophisticated mathematical calculations, its second most recent aphelion. The next one occurred in 1866, and the following one will occur in 2113.
July - December
- August 29 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and Hugo Grotius are imprisoned by Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange.
- September 18 - marks the beginning of the 12th Baktun in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, the final phase of the Great Cycle.
- September 19-November 21 - Siege of Plzeň
- 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 Dordrecht has its first meeting.
Undated
- The markgraves of Brandenburg are granted Polish approval to inherit the Duchy of Prussia.
- Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mustafa I (1617-1623) to Osman II (1618-1622).
- The 3000 seat Teatro Farnese, the first permanent proscenium theatre, was built into the Great Hall of the Palazzo della Pilotta in Parma, Italy in 1618.
- The Ming Chinese embassy of the Wanli Emperor presents tea to the Russian tsar.
- Thirty Years War starts. The Bohemian Revolt starts.
Births
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- 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)
- Richard Lovelace, English poet (died c1657)
- See also Category: 1618 births.
Deaths
- February 20 - Philip William, Prince of Orange (b. 1554)
- March 23 - James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn, Scottish politician (born 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 (born 1551)
- probable - Chief Powhatan, whose proper name was Wahunsenacawh, father of Pocahontas (born c.1547)
- See also Category: 1618 deaths.af:1618
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