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Year '1625' ('MDCXXV') 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 1625

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1625

January - June

★ March 27 - Prince Charles Stuart becomes King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland.

★ April 4 - Viceroy Frederik Henry marries Amalia countess von Solms-Braunfels.

★ April 7 - Albrecht von Wallenstein is appointed German supreme commander.

★ May 1

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★ Portuguese and Spanish expedition recaptures Salvador (Bahia).

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★ Prince Frederik Henry is appointed viceroy of Holland.

★ May 11 - Boers besiege Frankenburg estate in Upper Austria.

★ May 15/16 - Rebellious farmers are hanged in Vocklamarkt, Upper Austria.

★ June 2 - Prince Frederik Henry is sworn in as the viceroy of Holland/Zealand.

★ June 5 - Spanish troops under Spinola conquer Breda.

★ June 13 - Marriage of King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria, Princess of France and Navarra.

★ June 15 - Breda surrenders to the Spanish troops of general Ambrogio de Spinola.

July - December

★ August 6 - Earl Ernest Casimir is appointed as viceroy of Groningen.

★ August 16 - Ernest Casimir of Nassau-Dietz is appointed viceroy of Drenthe.

★ September 13 - A total of 16 rabbis (including Isaiah Horowitz) are imprisoned in Jerusalem.

★ September 24 - Dutch attack San Juan, Puerto Rico.

★ October 8 - Admiral George Villiers' fleet sails from Plymouth, England to Cadiz.

★ December 9 The Netherlands and England sign a military peace treaty.

Undated

★ The English Parliament refuses to vote Charles I the right to collect customs duties for his entire reign, restricting him to one year instead.

★ William Oughtred invents the slide rule.

★ James Ussher becomes Archbishop of Armagh.

★ New Netherlands director Wilhem Verhulst commissions the construction of Fort Amsterdam on the southern tip of Manhattan.

★ First Savoine War between the Republic of Genoa and the Duchy of Savoy.

Births

★ June 8 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian astronomer and engineer (d. 1712)

★ July 10 - Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (d. 1703)

★ August 13 - Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and scientist (d. 1698)

★ August 14 - François de Harlay de Champvallon, Archbishop of Paris (d. 1695)

★ August 20 - Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (d. 1709)

★ September 24 - Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (d. 1672)

★ October 4 - Jacqueline Pascal, French child prodigy and sister of Blaise Pascal (d. 1661)

★ November 30 - Jean Domat, French jurist (d. 1696)

★ December 14 - Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (d. 1695)
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Deaths

★ January 7 - Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer

★ March 7 - Johann Bayer, German astronomer (b. 1572)

★ March 25 - Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (b. 1569)

★ March 27 - King James I of England and Ireland/James VI of Scotland (b. 1566)

★ March 29 - Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Spanish historian (b. 1549)

★ April 23 - Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (b. 1567)

★ April 27 - Mori Terumoto, Japanese warrior (b. 1553)

★ June 1 - Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (b. 1568)

★ June 5 - Orlando Gibbons, English composer and organist (b. 1583)

★ August - John Fletcher, English writer (b. 1579)

★ September 20 - Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (b. 1555)

★ September 26 - Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian (b. 1579)

★ October 22 - Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (b. 1561)

★ December 9 - Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (b. 1547)

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★ Robert Cushman, Plymouth Colony settler (born 1578)

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★ Willem Schouten Dutch navigator (b. 1567?)
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