1619

This article is about the year 1619. For the number, see 1619 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1580s  1590s  1600s  – 1610s –  1620s  1630s  1640s
Years:	1616 1617 1618 – 1619 – 1620 1621 1622

1619 by topic:

Arts and Science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1619 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1619 MDCXIX
Ab urbe condita	2372
Armenian calendar	1068 ԹՎ ՌԿԸ
Assyrian calendar	6369
Bengali calendar	1026
Berber calendar	2569
English Regnal year	16 Ja. 1 – 17 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar	2163
Burmese calendar	981
Byzantine calendar	7127–7128
Chinese calendar	戊午年 (Earth Horse) 4315 or 4255     — to — 己未年 (Earth Goat) 4316 or 4256
Coptic calendar	1335–1336
Discordian calendar	2785
Ethiopian calendar	1611–1612
Hebrew calendar	5379–5380
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1675–1676
- Shaka Samvat	1541–1542
- Kali Yuga	4720–4721
Holocene calendar	11619
Igbo calendar	619–620
Iranian calendar	997–998
Islamic calendar	1028–1029
Japanese calendar	Genna 5 (元和５年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3952
Minguo calendar	293 before ROC 民前293年
Thai solar calendar	2161–2162

1619 (MDCXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter F) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday (dominical letter C) of the Julian calendar, the 1619th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 619th year of the 2nd millennium, the 19th year of the 17th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1610s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1619 is 10 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

Events

January–June

• January – James I of England's Banqueting House, Whitehall in London is destroyed by fire. Inigo Jones is commissioned to design a replacement.
• March – Battle of Sarhu: Manchu leader Nurhaci is victorious over the Ming forces.
• March 20 – Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor dies, leaving the Holy Roman Empire without an official leader to deal with the Bohemian Revolt.
• May 8 – The Synod of Dort has its final meeting.
• May 13 – Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after having been convicted of treason.
• May 30 – Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Governor General of the Dutch East Indies, conquers Jayakarta and renames it Batavia.
• June 10 – Thirty Years' War – Battle of Sablat: Protestant forces are defeated.
• June 21 – Dulwich College founded by Edward Alleyn, in Dulwich, London.

July–December

• July 30 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
• August 5 – Thirty Years' War – Battle of Věstonice: Bohemian forces defeat the Austrians.
• August 10 – The Treaty of Angoulême ends the civil war in France.
• August 26 – Frederick V, Elector Palatine is elected the King of Bohemia.
• August 28 – Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
• October 8 – Thirty Years' War – The Treaty of Munich is signed by Ferdinand II and Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria.
• November 16 – William Parker School, Hastings is founded by the will of Rev. William Parker
• November 23 – Thirty Years' War – Battle of Humenné: Polish troops assist the Holy Roman Emperor by defeating a Transylvanian force, forcing Gabor Bethlen to raise his siege of Vienna.
• December 4 – Thirty-eight colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (considered by some to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas).

Date unknown

• Jahangir grants a British mission important commercial concessions at Surat on the west coast of India.
• England establishes its first outpost in India.
• The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth reaches the height of its territorial extent.
• Salé Rovers declare the port of Salé on the Barbary Coast to be the Republic of Salé, independent of the Sultan of Morocco, with the Dutch-born corsair Jan Janszoon as president.
• The Danish–Dutch whaling settlement of Smeerenburg is founded in Svalbard.
• An expedition in Sri Lanka led by Phillippe de Oliveira deposes and executes the last Jaffna king Cankili II, putting an end to the Jaffna kingdom.
• A Spanish expedition sails around Tierra del Fuego, mapping the coast and discovering the Diego Ramírez Islands.

Births

• January 10 – Philip Sidney, 3rd Earl of Leicester, English politician (d. 1698)
• January 14 – Alexander von Spaen, German general (d. 1692)
• January 14 – Thomas Archer, English politician (d. 1685)
• January 17 – Johanna Elisabeth of Nassau-Hadamar, princess (d. 1647)
• January 21 – John Rashleigh (1619–93), English politician (d. 1693)
• January 21 – Anders Bording, Danish poet (d. 1677)
• January 24 – Yamazaki Ansai, Japanese philosopher (d. 1682)
• January 30 – Michelangelo Ricci, Roman mathematician and Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1682)
• February 1 – Robert Phelips (Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster), English politician (d. 1707)
• February 2 – Walter Charleton, English natural philosopher (d. 1707)
• February 15 – Tsugaru Nobuyoshi, Japanese daimyo (d. 1655)
• February 24 – Robert Aske, English merchant (d. 1689)
• February 24 – Charles Le Brun, French painter and art theorist (d. 1690)
• February 26 – Francesco Morosini, Doge of Venice from 1688 to 1694 (d. 1694)
• February 28 – Giuseppe Felice Tosi, Italian composer (d. 1693)
• March 2 – Marcantonio Giustinian, 107th Doge of Venice (d. 1688)
• March 5 – Joseph Ames, English naval commander (d. 1695)
• March 6 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier and poet (d. 1655)
• March 13 – Tobias Lohner, Austrian Jesuit theologian (d. 1697)
• March 15 – Jean Le Vacher, French Lazarist missionary and French consul (d. 1683)
• March 20 – Georg Albrecht, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach, German prince (d. 1666)
• March 25 – Peter Mews, English Royalist (d. 1706)
• March 28 – Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz (d. 1681)
• April 2 – Anna Sophia I, Abbess of Quedlinburg (d. 1681)
• April 2 – Onofrio Gabrieli, Italian painter (d. 1706)
• April 11 – Abraham van der Hulst, Dutch admiral (d. 1666)
• April 21 – Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch founder of Cape Town (d. 1677)
• April 30 – Johannes Spilberg, Dutch painter (d. 1690)
• May
  • James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair, Scottish lawyer and statesman (d. 1695)
  • André Félibien, French court historian (d. 1695)
  • Andrew Ramsay, Lord Abbotshall, Scottish judge and politician (d. 1688)
• May 20 – Abiezer Coppe, English "Ranter" and pamphleteer (d. 1672)
• May 24 – Philips Wouwerman, Dutch painter (d. 1668)
• May 26 – Pye Min, King of Burma (d. 1672)
• June 6 – Carel van Savoyen, Flemish painter (d. 1665)
• June 13 – Jan Victors, Dutch painter (d. 1676)
• June 14 – Sir Jeffrey Hudson, English court dwarf (d. 1682)
• June 24 – Rijckloff van Goens, Dutch colonial governor (d. 1682)
• July 3 – Hyojong of Joseon, seventeenth king of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea (d. 1659)
• July 27 – Sir Henry Felton, 2nd Baronet, English Member of Parliament (d. 1690)
• August 5 – Thomas Hall (MP), English politician (d. 1667)
• August 6 – Barbara Strozzi, Italian singer and composer (d. 1677)
• August 7 – Anna Catherine Constance Vasa, Polish princess, daughter of King Sigismund III Vasa (d. 1651)
• August 15 – Francesco Maria Farnese, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1647)
• August 15 – Hubertus Quellinus, Dutch artist (d. 1687)
• August 21 – Sir John Borlase, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1672)
• August 28 – Louis Thomassin, French bishop and theologian (d. 1695)
• August 28 – Anne Geneviève de Bourbon, French princess (d. 1679)
• August 29 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (d. 1683)
• September 20 – Sophie Elisabeth Pentz, daughter of Christian IV of Denmark (d. 1657)
• September 21 – Sir John Wray, 3rd Baronet, English politician (d. 1664)
• October 8 – Philipp von Zesen, German poet (d. 1689)
• October 10 – Josias Calmady, English Member of Parliament (d. 1683)
• October 10 – Princess Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg, German princess (d. 1680)
• October 14 – Sir John Bright, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1688)
• October 16 – Johann Friedrich König, German Lutheran theologian (d. 1664)
• October 18 – Jean Armand de Maillé-Brézé, French admiral. (d. 1646)
• October 27 – Frederick Louis, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (d. 1681)
• November 5 – Philip de Koninck, Dutch painter (d. 1688)
• November 7 – Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (d. 1692)
• November 25 – Henry Mildmay (of Graces), English politician (d. 1692)
• December 10 – Thomas Dyke (MP for Seaford), English politician (d. 1669)
• December 17 – Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Bohemian-born Royalist commander in the English Civil War (d. 1682)
• December 28 – Antoine Furetière, French writer (d. 1688)
• December 31 – John Fitzjames (MP), English politician (d. 1670)
• December 31 – Sylvester Maurus, Italian Jesuit theologian (d. 1687)
• date unknown
  • Donald Cargill, Scottish Covenanter (d. 1681)
  • Samuel Collins, English doctor and author (d. 1670)
  • Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 8th Duke of Alburquerque, Spanish military officer and viceroy (d. 1676)
  • Willem Kalf, Dutch painter (d. 1693)
  • Kumazawa Banzan, Japanese philosopher (d. 1691)
  • Shalom Shabazi, Jewish Yemeni rabbi and poet (d. c. 1720)
  • Wang Fuzhi, Chinese philosopher (d. 1692)

Deaths

• January 7 – Nicholas Hilliard, English miniature painter (b. c. 1547)
• January 11 – Diane de France, Duchess of Angoulême (b. 1538)
• February 3 – Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (b. 1564)
• February 16 – William Couper, Scottish bishop (b. 1568)
• February 19 – Lucilio Vanini, Italian philosopher (b. 1585)
• March 4 – Anne of Denmark, queen of James I of England (b. 1574)
• March 13 – Richard Burbage, English actor (b. c. 1567)
• March 15 – Michael Balfour, 1st Lord Balfour of Burleigh, Scottish nobleman
• March 18 – Chō Tsuratatsu, Japanese samurai (b. 1546)
• March 20 – Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor, Austrian Habsburg ruler (b. 1557)
• April 10 – Thomas Jones, Anglican Archbishop of Dublin (b. c. 1550)
• April 16 – Denis Calvaert, Flemish painter (b. 1540)
• April/May – William Larkin, English court portrait painter (b. early 1580s)
• May – John Overall, English bishop (b. 1559)
• May 13 – Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (b. 1547)
• May 21 – Hieronymus Fabricius, Italian anatomist (b. 1537)
• July 22 – Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian saint (b. 1559)
• July 24 – Nabeshima Naoshige, Japanese samurai (b. 1537)
• August 3 – Dorothy Percy, Countess of Northumberland, English noblewoman (b. c. 1564)
• August 19 – Thomas Dale, English colonial governor
• August 30 – Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
• September – Hans Lippershey, Dutch lensmaker (b. 1570)
• September 3 – John Gordon, Scottish bishop (b. 1544)
• September 7 – Marko Krizin, Croatian Roman Catholic priest (martyred) (b. 1588)
• October
  • Robert Peake the Elder, English court portrait painter (b. c. 1551)
  • Nicholas Yonge, English singer and publisher (b. c. 1560)
• October 9 – Joseph Pardo, Italian rabbi and merchant (b. c. 1561)
• October 14 – Samuel Daniel, English poet (b. 1562)
• November 13 – Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (b. 1555)
• December 23 – John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1572)
• December 29 – Antoine Arnauld, French lawyer (b. 1560)
• date unknown
  • Bagrat VII of Kartli (b. 1569)
  • François d'Amboise, French jurist and writer (b. 1550)
  • Thomas Stephens, English Jesuit missionary in Portuguese India (b. c. 1549)