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 in the year 1616.   

Jan 06   Philip Henslowe, English theatrical entrepreneur (bc. 1550) on this day in history.   

Jan 13   In the year 1616 antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic/French religious fanatic   

Jan 24   On this day in history jacques Le Maire discovers Street Lemaire/Cape Receiver   

Jan 30   On this day in history william Sancroft, Archbishop (Canterbury)   

Feb 12   On this day in history john Drusius, of Driesschen, Flemish Hebraist, dies at 65   

Feb 19   On this day in history jacques de Saint-Luc, composer   

Feb 26   On this day in history spanish Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo   

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

Mar 05   Copernicus' "de Revolutionibus" placed on Catholic Forbidden index in the year 1616.   

Mar 06   Francis Beaumont, Elizabethan playwright, dies (birth date unknown) on this day in history.   

Mar 06   In the year 1616 malachias Siebenhaar, composer   

Mar 20   Walter Raleigh released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana on this day in history.   

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

Mar 29   On this day in history johann Erasmus Kindermann, composer   

Apr 23   On this day in history miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer (Don Quixote), dies at 69   

Apr 23   Netherlands buys De Briel/Vlissingen/Fort Rammekens from England on this day in history.   

Apr 30   English King Jacob I leaves Brielle/Vlissingen in the year 1616.   

May 03   In the year 1616 treaty of Loudun kills French civil war   

May 19   Johann Jacob Froberger, German singer/organist/composer in the year 1616.   

Jun 12   On this day in history cornelis F Schuyt, Dutch organist/composer (Madrigalen), dies   

Jul 11   In the year 1616 samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.   

Jul 20   Hugh O'Neill, 3rd Earl of Tyrone, Irish soldier on this day in history.   

Jul 25   Andreas Libavius, German alchemist, dies in the year 1616.   

Aug 07   On this day in history vincenzo Scamozzi, Ital architect (Procurazie Nuove, Venice), dies   

Aug 08   In the year 1616 cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet, buried at 68   

Aug 26   Johan van de Veeken, merchant/co-founder (VOC), dies at 66 in the year 1616.   

Aug 31   Gemignano Capilupi, composer, dies at 43 on this day in history.   

Sep 01   In the year 1616 new England epidemic in Southern New England, especially the Wampanoag people killing 30-90% of population people   

Sep 15   The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy in the year 1616.   

Oct 02   A Gryphius, writer on this day in history.   

Oct 10   Maria van Nassau, countess of Buren, dies at 60 on this day in history.   

Oct 25   VOC-ship "The Eendracht" discovers Dirk-Hartogeiland, Australia on this day in history.   

Nov 19   Eustache Le Sueur, French painter on this day in history.   

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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   On this day in history birth of jacques de Saint-Luc, composer   

Feb 28   Kaspar Forster, composer was born in the year 1616.   

Mar 06   In the year 1616 birth of malachias Siebenhaar, composer   

Mar 29   Johann Erasmus Kindermann, composer was born in the year 1616.   

May 19   In the year 1616 birth of johann Jacob Froberger, German singer/organist/composer   

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   On this day in history francis Beaumont, Elizabethan playwright, dies (birth date unknown)   

Apr 23   In the year 1616 miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer (Don Quixote), dies at 69   

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   Hugh O'Neill, 3rd Earl of Tyrone, Irish soldier died in the year 1616.   

Jul 25   Andreas Libavius, German alchemist, dies in the year 1616.