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) in the year 1616.  

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

Jan 24   In the year 1616 jacques Le Maire discovers Street Lemaire/Cape Receiver  

Jan 30   William Sancroft, Archbishop (Canterbury) on this day in history.  

Feb 12   John Drusius, of Driesschen, Flemish Hebraist, dies at 65 on this day in history.  

Feb 19   In the year 1616 jacques de Saint-Luc, composer  

Feb 26   Spanish Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo in the year 1616.  

Feb 28   In the year 1616 kaspar Forster, composer  

Mar 05   In the year 1616 copernicus' "de Revolutionibus" placed on Catholic Forbidden index  

Mar 06   On this day in history francis Beaumont, Elizabethan playwright, dies (birth date unknown)  

Mar 06   Malachias Siebenhaar, composer in the year 1616.  

Mar 20   Walter Raleigh released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana in the year 1616.  

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   In the year 1616 johann Erasmus Kindermann, composer  

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

Apr 23   Netherlands buys De Briel/Vlissingen/Fort Rammekens from England in the year 1616.  

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   Cornelis F Schuyt, Dutch organist/composer (Madrigalen), dies on this day in history.  

Jul 11   On this day in history samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.  

Jul 20   Hugh O'Neill, 3rd Earl of Tyrone, Irish soldier in the year 1616.  

Jul 25   On this day in history andreas Libavius, German alchemist, dies  

Aug 07   Vincenzo Scamozzi, Ital architect (Procurazie Nuove, Venice), dies on this day in history.  

Aug 08   Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet, buried at 68 on this day in history.  

Aug 26   Johan van de Veeken, merchant/co-founder (VOC), dies at 66 on this day in history.  

Aug 31   Gemignano Capilupi, composer, dies at 43 in the year 1616.  

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

Sep 15   The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy on this day in history.  

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

Oct 10   Maria van Nassau, countess of Buren, dies at 60 in the year 1616.  

Oct 25   On this day in history vOC-ship "The Eendracht" discovers Dirk-Hartogeiland, Australia  

Nov 19   On this day in history 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   François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (d. 1669) was born in the year 1616.  

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

Feb 19   In the year 1616 birth of jacques de Saint-Luc, composer  

Feb 28   In the year 1616 birth of kaspar Forster, composer  

Mar 06   Malachias Siebenhaar, composer was born on this day in history.  

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

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

Jan 06   In the year 1616 death of philip Henslowe, English theatrical entrepreneur (bc. 1550)  

Feb 12   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.  

Jun 01   Tokugawa Ieyasu (b. 1543) died on this day in history.  

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

Jul 20   On this day in history death of hugh O'Neill, 3rd Earl of Tyrone, Irish soldier  

Jul 25   In the year 1616 andreas Libavius, German alchemist, dies