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Year 1614 (MDCXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1614

July - December

August 23 - The University of Groningen is established in the Netherlands.
September 1 - In England, Sir Julius Caesar becomes Master of the Rolls.
October 11 - Adriaen Block and a group of Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the area he explored and named "New Netherland".
November 16 - The Treaty of Xanten ends the Julich-Cleves War.
November 19 - The Siege of Osaka begins.

Undated

The French Estates-General meets for the last time before the era of the French Revolution. In between, France will be governed as an absolute monarchy.

John Napier publishes Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio, a paper outlining his discovery of logarithms.

The Rosicrucian Order is instituted in Germany according to Fraternitas Rosae Crucis.

Toyotomi Hideyori attempts to restore Osaka Castle. Tokugawa Ieyasu, father of the Shogun, is outraged at this act, and takes the castle by storm.

Births

January 1 - John Wilkins, English clergyman (d. 1672)

January 5 - Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (d. 1662)

July 10 - Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (d. 1686)

December 16 - Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1674

date unknown - Franciscus Sylvius, German scientist (d. 1672)

Deaths

April 7 - El Greco, or Domênikos Theotokópoulos (Greek: Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος), Cretian painter, sculptor and architect (b. 1541)

June 15 - Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, English politician (b. 1540)

July 1 - Isaac Casaubon, French-born classical scholar (b. 1559)

July 14 - Camillus de Lellis, Italian saint (b. 1550)

July 15 - Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, French historian and biographer

August 11 - Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (b. 1552)

August 21 - Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian serial killer (b. 1560)

September - Giovanni de Macque, composer (b. c. 1550)Further Information

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