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).

Events of 1613

January - June

• January 20 - King James I of England successfully mediates the Treaty of Knäred treaty between Denmark and Sweden.
• February 7 - An Assembly of the Russian Empire elects Mikhail Romanov to be Tsar of Russia, and establishes the Romanov Dynasty. Time of Troubles ends.
• 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

• The New River was opened, to supply London with drinking water from Hertfordshire.
• 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)
• September 25 - Claude Perrault, French architect (died 1688)
• November 5 - Isaac de Benserade, French poet (died 1691)
• December 23 - Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish soldier (died 1676)
• date unknown
  • Henry Vane, English politician (died 1662)
  • Khushal Khan Khattak, Afghan poet (died 1690)
• probable
  • Richard Crashaw, English poet (died 1649)

See also Category:1613 births.

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)

See also Category:1613 deaths.

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