Historical Events In 1616

Jan 05   Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 sets off to visit Petun (Tobacco) Nation, south of Nottawasaga Bay, with Father Le Caron.   

Jan 06   Philip Henslowe, English theatrical entrepreneur (bc. 1550).   

Jan 13   Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic/French religious fanatic.   

Jan 24   Jacques Le Maire discovers Street Lemaire/Cape Receiver.   

Jan 30   William Sancroft, Archbishop (Canterbury).   

Feb 12   John Drusius, of Driesschen, Flemish Hebraist, dies at 65   

Feb 19   Jacques de Saint-Luc, composer.   

Feb 26   Spanish Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo.   

Feb 28   Kaspar Forster, composer.   

Mar 05   Copernicus' "de Revolutionibus" placed on Catholic Forbidden index.   

Mar 06   Francis Beaumont, Elizabethan playwright, dies (birth date unknown)   

Mar 06   Malachias Siebenhaar, composer.   

Mar 20   Walter Raleigh released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana.   

Mar 26   Bristol England William Baffin c1584-1622 leaves on 5th voyage on 'Discovery'; will pass Greenland coast and sail north another 480 km.   

Mar 29   Johann Erasmus Kindermann, composer   

Apr 23   Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer (Don Quixote), dies at 69   

Apr 23   Netherlands buys De Briel/Vlissingen/Fort Rammekens from England.   

Apr 30   English King Jacob I leaves Brielle/Vlissingen.   

May 03   Treaty of Loudun results in the deaths of French civil war   

May 19   Johann Jacob Froberger, German singer/organist/composer.   

Jun 12   Cornelis F Schuyt, Dutch organist/composer (Madrigalen), dies.   

Jul 11   Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec   

Jul 20   Hugh O'Neill, 3rd Earl of Tyrone, Irish soldier.   

Jul 25   Andreas Libavius, German alchemist, dies   

Aug 07   Vincenzo Scamozzi, Ital architect (Procurazie Nuove, Venice), dies.   

Aug 08   Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet, buried at 68   

Aug 26   Johan van de Veeken, merchant/co-founder (VOC), dies at 66.   

Aug 31   Gemignano Capilupi, composer, dies at 43   

Sep 01   New England epidemic in Southern New England, especially the Wampanoag people killing 30-90% of population people   

Sep 15   The inaugural non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy.   

Oct 02   A Gryphius, writer   

Oct 10   Maria van Nassau, countess of Buren, dies at 60   

Oct 25   VOC-ship "The Eendracht" discovers Dirk-Hartogeiland, Australia   

Nov 19   Eustache Le Sueur, French painter.   

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Jan 13   Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic/French religious fanatic was born on this day in history.   

Jan 16   In the year 1616 birth of françois de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (d. 1669)   

Jan 30   In the year 1616 birth of william Sancroft, Archbishop (Canterbury)   

Feb 19   Jacques de Saint-Luc, composer was born on this day in history.   

Feb 28   Kaspar Forster, composer was born on this day in history.   

Mar 06   On this day in history birth of malachias Siebenhaar, composer   

Mar 29   In the year 1616 birth of johann Erasmus Kindermann, composer   

May 19   Johann Jacob Froberger, German singer/organist/composer was born on this day in history.   

Jan 06   On this day in history death of philip Henslowe, English theatrical entrepreneur (bc. 1550)   

Feb 12   In the year 1616 john Drusius, of Driesschen, Flemish Hebraist, dies at 65   

Mar 06   In the year 1616 francis Beaumont, Elizabethan playwright, dies (birth date unknown)   

Apr 23   Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer (Don Quixote), dies at 69 in the year 1616.   

Jun 01   Tokugawa Ieyasu (b. 1543) died in the year 1616.   

Jun 12   In the year 1616 cornelis F Schuyt, Dutch organist/composer (Madrigalen), dies   

Jul 20   In the year 1616 death of hugh O'Neill, 3rd Earl of Tyrone, Irish soldier   

Jul 25   Andreas Libavius, German alchemist, dies on this day in history.