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Year '1614' ('MDCXIV') was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1614

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1614

July - December

★ August 23 - The University of Groningen is established in the Netherlands.

★ September 1 - In England, Sir Julius Caesar becomes Master of the Rolls.

★ October 11 - Adriaen Block and a group of Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the area he explored and named "New Netherland".

★ November 19 - Beginning of the Siege of Osaka.

Undated

★ The French Estates-General meets for the last time before the era of the French Revolution. In between, France will be governed as an absolute monarchy.

★ John Napier publishes ''Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio'', a paper outlining his discovery of logarithms.

★ The University of Groningen is established.

★ Institution of the Rosicrucian Order in Germany according to Fraternitas Rosae Crucis.

★ Toyotomi Hideyori attempts to restore Osaka Castle. Tokugawa Ieyasu, father of the Shogun, is outraged at this act, and takes the castle by storm.

Births

★ January 1 - John Wilkins, English clergyman (d. 1672)

★ January 5 - Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (d. 1662)

★ July 10 - Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (d. 1686)

★ December 16 - Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1674

★ ''date unknown'' - Franciscus Sylvius, German scientist (d. 1672)

Deaths

★ April 7 - El Greco, or Domênikos Theotokópoulos (Greek: Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος), Cretian painter, sculptor and architect (b. 1541)

★ June 15 - Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, English politician (b. 1540)

★ July 1 - Isaac Casaubon, French-born classical scholar (b. 1559)

★ July 14 - Camillus de Lellis, Italian saint (b. 1550)

★ July 15 - Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, French historian and biographer

★ August 11 - Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (b. 1552)

★ August 21 - Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian serial killer (b. 1560)

★ September - Giovanni de Macque, composer (b. c. 1550)