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Year '1618' ('MDCXVIII') was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1618

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1618

January - June

★ March 8 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion (he soon rejects the idea after some initial calculations were made but on May 15 confirms the discovery).

★ May 23 - The Second Defenestration of Prague - Protestant noblemen throw three representatives of Ferdinand II out of a window. The event precipitates the Thirty Years' War.

★ June 14 – Estimated date when Joris Veseler prints the first Dutch newspaper Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c. in Amsterdam.

★ July 20 - Pluto reached, according to sophisticated mathematical calculations, its second most recent aphelion. The next one occurred in 1866, and the following one will occur in ''2113''.

July - December

★ August 29 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and Hugo Grotius are imprisoned by Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange.

★ September 18-marks the beginning of the 13th Baktun in the Mayan calendar, the final phase of the Great Cycle.

★ September 19-November 21 - Siege of Plzeň

★ October 29 - English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.

Undated

★ The margraves of Brandenburg is granted Polish approval to inherit the Duchy of Prussia.

★ November 13, the Synod of Dordrecht has its first meeting.

★ Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mustafa I (1617-1623) to Osman II (1618-1622).

★ The 3000 seat Teatro Farnese, the first permanent proscenium theatre, was built into the Great Hall of the Palazzo della Pilotta in Parma, Italy in 1618.

Births

★ January 1 - Bartolomé Estéban Murillo, Spanish painter (d. 1682)

★ April 2 - Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1663)

★ April 13 - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (d. 1693)

★ November 3 - Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1707)

★ November - Simon Arnauld de Pomponne, French diplomat and minister of Louis XIV (d. 1699)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Ādiŧyavoṇś, Ayuthian monarch

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★ Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, politician (member of the Cabal)

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★ Richard Lovelace, English poet (died c1657)
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Deaths

★ February 20 - Philip William, Prince of Orange (b. 1554)

★ March 23 - James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn, Scottish politician (born c 1575)

★ June 7 - Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English Governor of Virginia (b. 1577)

★ August 23 - Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (b. 1585)

★ September 28 - Joshua Sylvester, English poet (b. 1563)

★ October 29 - Sir Walter Raleigh, English courtier and settler of Virginia (executed) (b. 1554)

★ November 2 - Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (b. 1558)

★ December 6 - Jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (b. 1556)

★ December 10 - Giulio Caccini, Italian composer (born 1551)

★ ''probable'' - Chief Powhatan, whose proper name was Wahunsenacawh, father of Pocahontas (born c.1547)
: ''See also .''