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   Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic/French religious fanatic in the year 1616.  

Jan 24   Jacques Le Maire discovers Street Lemaire/Cape Receiver in the year 1616.  

Jan 30   William Sancroft, Archbishop (Canterbury) in the year 1616.  

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 on this day in history.  

Feb 28   In the year 1616 kaspar Forster, composer  

Mar 05   Copernicus' "de Revolutionibus" placed on Catholic Forbidden index on this day in history.  

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

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

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 in the year 1616.  

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   In the year 1616 english King Jacob I leaves Brielle/Vlissingen  

May 03   Treaty of Loudun kills French civil war on this day in history.  

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 on this day in history.  

Aug 07   Vincenzo Scamozzi, Ital architect (Procurazie Nuove, Venice), dies in the year 1616.  

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

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

Aug 31   In the year 1616 gemignano Capilupi, composer, dies at 43  

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 on this day in history.  

Oct 02   In the year 1616 a Gryphius, writer  

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

Oct 25   In the year 1616 vOC-ship "The Eendracht" discovers Dirk-Hartogeiland, Australia  

Nov 19   In the year 1616 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   William Sancroft, Archbishop (Canterbury) was born on this day in history.  

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

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

Mar 06   Malachias Siebenhaar, composer was born in the year 1616.  

Mar 29   On this day in history 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   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   In the year 1616 miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer (Don Quixote), dies at 69  

Jun 01   In the year 1616 death of tokugawa Ieyasu (b. 1543)  

Jun 12   Cornelis F Schuyt, Dutch organist/composer (Madrigalen), dies in the year 1616.  

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

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