This article is about the year 1619. For the number, see 1619 (number).
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 16th century – 17th century – 18th century |
Decades: | 1580s 1590s 1600s – 1610s – 1620s 1630s 1640s |
Years: | 1616 1617 1618 – 1619 – 1620 1621 1622 |
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Gregorian calendar | 1619 MDCXIX |
Ab urbe condita | 2372 |
Armenian calendar | 1068 ԹՎ ՌԿԸ |
Assyrian calendar | 6369 |
Bahá'í calendar | −225 – −224 |
Bengali calendar | 1026 |
Berber calendar | 2569 |
English Regnal year | 16 Ja. 1 – 17 Ja. 1 |
Buddhist calendar | 2163 |
Burmese calendar | 981 |
Byzantine calendar | 7127–7128 |
Chinese calendar | 戊午年 (Earth Horse) 4315 or 4255 — to — 己未年 (Earth Goat) 4316 or 4256 |
Coptic calendar | 1335–1336 |
Discordian calendar | 2785 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1611–1612 |
Hebrew calendar | 5379–5380 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1675–1676 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1541–1542 |
- Kali Yuga | 4720–4721 |
Holocene calendar | 11619 |
Igbo calendar | 619–620 |
Iranian calendar | 997–998 |
Islamic calendar | 1028–1029 |
Japanese calendar | Genna 5 (元和5年) |
Juche calendar | N/A |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
Korean calendar | 3952 |
Minguo calendar | 293 before ROC 民前293年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2162 |
Year 1619 (MDCXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- January – James I of England's Banqueting House, Whitehall in London is destroyed by fire. Inigo Jones is commissioned to design a replacement.
- March – Battle of Sarhu: Manchu leader Nurhaci is victorious over the Ming forces.
- March 20 – Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor dies, leaving the Holy Roman Empire without an official leader to deal with the Bohemian Revolt.
- May 8 – The Synod of Dort has its final meeting.
- May 13 – Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after having been convicted of treason.
- May 30 – Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Governor General of the Dutch East Indies, conquers Jayakarta and renames it Batavia.
- June 10 – Thirty Years' War – Battle of Sablat: Protestant forces are defeated.
- June 21 – Dulwich College founded by Edward Alleyn, in Dulwich, London.
July–December
- July 30 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
- August 5 – Thirty Years' War – Battle of Věstonice: Bohemian forces defeat the Austrians.
- August 10 – The Treaty of Angoulême ends the civil war in France.
- August 26 – Frederick V, Elector Palatine is elected the King of Bohemia.
- August 28 – Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
- October 8 – Thirty Years' War – The Treaty of Munich is signed by Ferdinand II and Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria.
- November 16 – William Parker School, Hastings is founded by the will of Rev. William Parker
- November 23 – Thirty Years' War – Battle of Humenné: Polish troops assist the Holy Roman Emperor by defeating a Transylvanian force, forcing Gabor Bethlen to raise his siege of Vienna.
- December 4 – Thirty-eight colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (considered by some to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas).
Date unknown
- Jahangir grants a British mission important commercial concessions at Surat on the west coast of India.
- England establishes its first outpost in India.
- The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth reaches the height of its territorial extent.
- Salé Rovers declare the port of Salé on the Barbary Coast to be the Republic of Salé, independent of the Sultan of Morocco, with the Dutch-born corsair Jan Janszoon as president.
- The Danish–Dutch whaling settlement of Smeerenburg is founded in Svalbard.
- An expedition in Sri Lanka led by Phillippe de Oliveira deposes and executes the last Jaffna king Cankili II, putting an end to the Jaffna kingdom.
- A Spanish expedition sails around Tierra del Fuego, mapping the coast and discovering the Diego Ramírez Islands.
Births
- January 10 – Philip Sidney, 3rd Earl of Leicester, English politician (d. 1698)
- January 14
- Alexander von Spaen, German general (d. 1692)
- Thomas Archer (died 1685), English politician (d. 1685)
- January 17 – Johanna Elisabeth of Nassau-Hadamar, Princess (d. 1647)
- January 21
- John Rashleigh (1619–93), English politician (d. 1693)
- Anders Bording, Danish poet (d. 1677)
- January 24 – Yamazaki Ansai, Japanese philosopher (d. 1682)
- January 30 – Michelangelo Ricci, mathematician and Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1682)
- February 1 – Robert Phelips (Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster), English politician (d. 1707)
- February 2 – Walter Charleton, natural philosopher (d. 1707)
- February 15 – Tsugaru Nobuyoshi, Japanese daimyo (d. 1655)
- February 24
- Robert Aske (merchant), English merchant (d. 1689)
- Charles Le Brun, French painter and art theorist (d. 1690)
- 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 (naval commander), English naval commander (d. 1695)
- March 6 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier and poet (d. 1655)
- March 13 – Tobias Lohner (d. 1697)
- March 15 – Jean Le Vacher, Lazarist missionary and French consul (d. 1683)
- March 20 – Georg Albrecht, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach (d. 1666)
- March 25 – Peter Mews, English Royalist (d. 1706)
- March 28 – Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz (d. 1681)
- April 2
- Anna Sophia I, Abbess of Quedlinburg (d. 1681)
- Onofrio Gabrieli, Italian painter (d. 1706)
- April 11 – Abraham van der Hulst, Dutch admiral (d. 1666)
- April 21 – Jan van Riebeeck, founder of Cape Town (d. 1677)
- April 30 – Johannes Spilberg, Dutch painter (d. 1690)
- May
- James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair, Scottish lawyer and statesman (d. 1695)
- André Félibien, French court historian (d. 1695)
- Andrew Ramsay, Lord Abbotshall, Scottish judge and politician (d. 1688)
- May 20 – Abiezer Coppe, English "Ranter" and pamphleteer (d. 1672)
- May 24 – Philips Wouwerman, Dutch painter (d. 1668)
- May 26 – Pye Min, King of Burma (d. 1672)
- June 6 – Carel van Savoyen, painter (d. 1665)
- June 13 – Jan Victors, Dutch painter (d. 1676)
- June 14 – Sir Jeffrey Hudson, court dwarf (d. 1682)
- June 24 – Rijckloff van Goens, Dutch colonial governor (d. 1682)
- July 3 – Hyojong of Joseon, seventeenth king of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea (d. 1659)
- July 27 – Sir Henry Felton, 2nd Baronet, Member of the Parliament of England (d. 1690)
- August 5 – Thomas Hall (MP), English politician (d. 1667)
- August 6 – Barbara Strozzi, Italian singer and composer (d. 1677)
- August 7 – Anna Catherine Constance Vasa, daughter of King Sigismund III Vasa (d. 1651)
- August 15
- Francesco Maria Farnese, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1647)
- Hubertus Quellinus, Dutch artist (d. 1687)
- August 21 – Sir John Borlase, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1672)
- August 28
- Louis Thomassin, French bishop and theologian (d. 1695)
- Anne Geneviève de Bourbon, French princess (d. 1679)
- 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
- Josias Calmady, English M.P. (d. 1683)
- Princess Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg, German princess (d. 1680)
- 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 – Philip de Koninck, Dutch painter (d. 1688)
- November 7 – Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (d. 1692)
- November 25 – Henry Mildmay (of Graces), English politician (d. 1692)
- December 10 – Thomas Dyke (MP for Seaford), English politician (d. 1669)
- December 17 – Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (d. 1682)
- December 28 – Antoine Furetière, French writer (d. 1688)
- December 31
- John Fitzjames (MP), English politician (d. 1670)
- Sylvester Maurus, Italian Jesuit theologian (d. 1687)
- date unknown
- Richard Allestree, provost of Eton College (d. 1681)
- Samuel Collins, English doctor and author (d. 1670)
- Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 8th Duke of Alburquerque (d. 1676)
- King Hyojong of Joseon (d. 1659)
- Willem Kalf, Dutch painter (d. 1693)
- Kumazawa Banzan, Japanese philosopher (d. 1691)
- Shalom Shabazi, Jewish poet of Yemen (d. 1720)
- Wang Fuzhi, philosopher (d. 1692)
Deaths
- January 7 – Nicholas Hilliard, English painter (b. c. 1547)
- January 11 – Diane de France, Duchess of Angoulême (b. 1538)
- February 3 – Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (b. 1564)
- February 19 – Lucilio Vanini, Italian philosopher (b. 1585)
- March 4 – Anne of Denmark, queen of James I of England (b. 1574)
- March 13 – Richard Burbage, English actor (b. c. 1567)
- March 15 – Michael Balfour, 1st Lord Balfour of Burleigh
- March 18 – Chō Tsuratatsu, Japanese samurai (b. 1546)
- March 20 – Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1557)
- April 10 – Thomas Jones, Archbishop of Dublin (b. c. 1550)
- May 13 – Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (b. 1547)
- May 21 – Hieronymus Fabricius, Italian anatomist (b. 1537)
- July 22 – Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian saint (b. 1559)
- August 3 – Dorothy Percy, Countess of Northumberland (b. c. 1564)
- August 19 – Thomas Dale, governor of the Virginia colony
- August 30 – Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
- September – Hans Lippershey, Dutch lensmaker (b. 1570)
- September 3 – John Gordon, Scottish bishop (b. 1544)
- September 7 – Marko Krizin, Croatian saint (executed) (b. 1588)
- October – Nicholas Yonge, English singer and publisher (b. c. 1560)
- October 14 – Samuel Daniel, English poet (b. 1562)
- November 13 – Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (b. 1555)
- December 23 – John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1572)
- December 29 – Antoine Arnauld, French lawyer (b. 1560)
- date unknown
- Bagrat VII of Kartli (b. 1569)
- François d'Amboise, French jurist and writer (b. 1550)
- Denis Calvaert, Flemish painter (b. 1540)
- William Couper (bishop), Scottish bishop (b. 1568)
- William Larkin, English painter
- John Overall, English bishop (b. 1559)
- Nabeshima Naoshige, Japanese samurai (b. 1537)
- Robert Peake the Elder, English painter (b. c. 1551)
- Thomas Stephens, Jesuit missionary (b. c. 1549)