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''

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★ Claude Perrault, French architect (died 1688)

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★ Henry Vane, English politician (died 1662)

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★ Khushal Khan Khattak, Afghan poet (died 1690)

★ ''probable''

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★ 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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