1613

About 1613


Year '1613' ('MDCXIII') was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents
Events of 1613
January - June
July - December
Undated
Births
Deaths

Events of 1613


January - June


February 7 - An Assembly of the Russian Empire elects Mikhail Romanov to be Tsar of Russia, and establishes the Romanov Dynasty.

February 14 - Elizabeth, daughter of King James I of England, marries Frederick V, Elector Palatine.

March 27 - First English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.

March 29 - Samuel de Champlain becomes the first unofficial Governor of New France.

★ April - Near Jamestown, Virginia, Samuel Argall captures Chief Powhatan’s daughter, Pocahontas, and she is brought to Jamestown.

★ June - At Jamestown, John Rolfe makes the first shipment of West Indian tobacco grown in Virginia to England.

June 29 - Fire destroys London's famed Globe Theatre.
July - December


August 29 - Sicilians under de Aragon defeat Turkish trade fleet.

November 3 - English royal favourite Robert Carr is created 1st Earl of Somerset.
Undated


★ King James I of England successfully mediates the Peace of Knäred treaty between Denmark and Sweden.

★ The New River was opened, to supply London with drinking water from Hertfordshire.

Adriaen Block's ship ''Tyger'' is destroyed by fire, forcing him and his crew to spend the winter on Manhattan.

James I of England condemns duels in his proclamation ''Against Private Challenges and Combats''.

Ottoman Empire invades Hungary.

★ A locust swarm destroys La Camarque, France.

★ The territory of Kuwait is founded.

Sultan Agung takes the throne of the kingdom of Mataram on Java.

★ Near Jamestown, Virginia, Sir Thomas Dale starts a settlement called "Bermuda City" which later became part of Hopewell, Virginia.

Births



February 2 - Noël Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary (died 1649)

March 12 - André Le Nôtre, French landscape gardener (died 1700)

April 7 - Gerhard Douw, Dutch painter (died 1675)

May 31 - John George II, Elector of Saxony (died 1680)

August 15 - Gilles Ménage, French scholar (died 1692)

September 15 - François de la Rochefoucauld, French writer (died 1680)

November 5 - Isaac de Benserade, French poet (died 1691)

December 23 - Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish soldier (died 1676)

★ ''date unknown''


Claude Perrault, French architect (died 1688)


Henry Vane, English politician (died 1662)


Khushal Khan Khattak, Afghan poet (died 1690)

★ ''probable''


Richard Crashaw, English poet (died 1649)
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Deaths



January 28 - Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and library founder (born 1545)

April 27 - Robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit missionary (born 1532)

August 7 - Thomas Fleming, English judge (born 1544)

August 18 - Giovanni Artusi, Italian composer (born c. 1540)

September 8 - Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (born 1566)

September 15 - Thomas Overbury, English poet (murdered) (born 1581)

November 16 - Trajano Boccalini, Italian satirist (born 1556)

December 6 - Anton Praetorius, German pastor (born 1560)

★ ''date unknown'' - Phung Khac Khoan, Vietnamese military strategist, politician, diplomat and poet (born 1528)
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