Explore 190 historical events from 1610–1619.
John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale was a Scottish statesman.
John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale, Scottish politician, Secretary of State, Scotland (died 1682)
Mirza Shah Shuja was the second son of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan and Empress Mumtaz Mahal. He was the governor of Bengal and Odisha and had his capital at Dhaka, in present day…
Shah Shuja, Mughal prince (died 1661)
Ferdinand Bol was a Dutch painter, etcher and draftsman. Although his surviving work is rare, it displays Rembrandt's influence; like his master, Bol favoured historical subjects, …
Ferdinand Bol, Dutch painter, etcher and draftsman, student of Rembrandt (died 1680)
Dirk Hartog was a 17th-century Dutch mariner and explorer. Dirk Hartog's expedition was the second European group to land in Australia and the first to leave behind an artefact to …
Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named…
John Leverett was an English colonial magistrate, merchant, soldier and the penultimate governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Born in England, he migrated to Massachusetts as a…
John Leverett, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (died 1679)
Anna de' Medici was a daughter of Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and his wife Maria Maddalena of Austria. A patron of the arts, she married Ferdinand Charles, Archduke…
Anna de' Medici, Archduchess of Austria (died 1676)
Andreas Gryphius was a German poet and playwright. With his eloquent sonnets, which contains "The Suffering, Frailty of Life and the World", he is considered one of the most import…
Andreas Gryphius, German poet and playwright (died 1664)
Nicholas Culpeper was an English botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer. His book The English Physitian is a source of pharmaceutical and herbal lore of the time, and Astrol…
Nicholas Culpeper, English botanist (died 1654)
Thomas Bartholin was a Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian. He discovered the lymphatic system in humans and advanced the theory of refrigeration anesthesia, being the …
Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (died 1680)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. He is best known for …
Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (born 1547)
Hugh O'Neill, The O'Niell, Earl of Tyrone, was an Irish lord and key figure of the Nine Years' War. Known as the "Great Earl", he led the confederacy of Irish lords against the Eng…
Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, Irish nobleman and rebel soldier (born 1550)
Andreas Libavius was a German writer.
Andreas Libavius, German physician and chemist (born 1550)
Vincenzo Scamozzi was an Italian architect and a writer on architecture, active mainly in Vicenza and Republic of Venice area in the second half of the 16th century. He was perhaps…
Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect, designed Teatro Olimpico (born 1548)
Cornelis or Cornelius Ketel was a Dutch Mannerist painter, active in Elizabethan London from 1573 to 1581, and in Amsterdam till his death. Ketel, known essentially as a portrait-p…
Cornelis Ketel, Dutch painter (born 1548)
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is oft…
William Shakespeare, English playwright and poet (born 1564)
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, born Gómez Suárez de Figueroa and known as El Inca, was a chronicler and writer born in the Viceroyalty of Peru. Sailing to Spain at 21, he was educated …
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Spanish writer and historian (born 1539)
Tokugawa Ieyasu was a Japanese samurai, daimyo and the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He wa…
Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun (born 1543)
Sir Roger Wilbraham was a prominent English lawyer who served as Solicitor-General for Ireland, under Elizabeth I and was judged one of her few really competent Law Officers. He he…
Roger Wilbraham, Solicitor-General for Ireland (born 1553)
John Pitts was an English Roman Catholic scholar and writer.
John Pitts, English priest and scholar (born 1560)
Leonhard Hutter was a German Lutheran theologian.
Leonhard Hutter, German theologian and academic (born 1563)
The Treaty of Loudun was signed on 3 May 1616 in Loudun, France, and ended the war that originally began as a power struggle between Queen Mother Marie de Medici's favorite Concino…
The Treaty of Loudun was signed, ending a war that originally began as a power struggle for the French throne
Dirk Hartog was a 17th-century Dutch mariner and explorer. Dirk Hartog's expedition was the second European group to land in Australia and the first to leave behind an artefact to …
Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog left a plate on an island in Shark Bay, the oldest-known artefact of European exploration…
The Wignacourt Aqueduct is a 17th-century aqueduct in Malta, which was built by the Order of Saint John to carry water from springs in Dingli and Rabat to the newly built capital c…
The Wignacourt Aqueduct is inaugurated in Malta
The Franciscan Recollects were a French reform branch of the Friars Minor, a Franciscan order. Denoted by their gray habits and pointed hoods, the Recollects devoted their lives t…
The first Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France