1624
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| Years: 1621 1622 1623 - 1624 - 1625 1626 1627 | |||
| Decades: 1590s 1600s 1610s - 1620s - 1630s 1640s 1650s | |||
| Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
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Events
- January 24 - Alfonso Mendez, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa.
- The Netherlands establish a trading colony at Kaohsiung on Taiwan.
- Thirty Walloon families settle in the New Netherland colony.
- Oslo is destroyed by fire. When rebuilt by Christian IV, it would be renamed Christiania.
- Claudio Monteverdi publishes Tancredi e Clorinda.
- Jean Louis Guez de Balzac publishes his Lettres.
- Bernardo de Balbuena publishes El Bernardo.
- Santa Rosalia makes a miraculous appearance during a plague in Palermo.
- Kalmia latifolia (mountain laurel) first recorded in America.
- Jakob Bartsch records the constellation Camelopardalis.
- Dr Challoner's Grammar School is founded.
- The Palace of Versailles is first built, as a hunting lodge.
- Chateau Cheverny begins construction.
- Pembroke College, Oxford founded.
- The Japanese Shogun expels Spanish from the land and severs trade with the Philippines
- Mail service begins in Denmark
- University founded in Bolivia
- War between England and Spain
- Cornelius Drebbel discover gases
Births
- January 9 - Empress Meisho of Japan (d. 1696)
- January 31 - Arnold Geulincx, Flemish philosopher (d. 1669)
- June 15 - Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (d. 1704)
- July - George Fox, English founder of the Quakers (d. 1691)
- August 22 - Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (d. 1701)
- August 25 - Père François de La Chaise, French churchman (d. 1709)
- September 10 - Thomas Sydenham, English physician (d. 1689)
- October 30 - Paul Pellisson, French author (d. 1693)
- Koxinga, Chinese military leader (d. 1662)
Deaths
- February 12 - George Heriot, Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist (b. 1563)
- February 13 - Stephen Gosson, English satirist (b. 1554)
- February 17 - Juan de Mariana, Spanish historian (b. 1536)
- November 10 - Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (b. 1573)
- December 5 - Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (b. 1560)
- December 14 - Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English statesman (b. 1536)
- December 26 - Simon Marius, German astronomer (b. 1573)
- Francesco Andreini, Italian actor
- Jakob Böhme, German mystic (b. 1575)
