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Calendar year
May 24 :
Peter Minuit , the Dutch Governor of New Netherlands, purchases
Manhattan Island from the Native American occupiers.
April 25 : The
Battle of Dessau Bridge takes place.
1626 (
MDCXXVI ) was a
common year starting on Thursday of the
Gregorian calendar and a
common year starting on Sunday of the
Julian calendar , the 1626th year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 626th year of the
2nd millennium , the 26th year of the
17th century , and the 7th year of the
1620s decade. As of the start of 1626, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
Events
January–March
January 7 –
Polish-Swedish War :
Battle of Wallhof in
Latvia –
Gustavus Adolphus , King of
Sweden , defeats a Polish army.
January 9 –
Peter Minuit sails from
Texel Island for America's
New Netherland colony, with two ships of Dutch emigrants.
February 2 – King
Charles I of England is crowned, but without his wife,
Henrietta Maria , who declines to participate in a non-Catholic ceremony.
[1]
February 5 – The
Huguenot rebels and the French government sign the
Treaty of Paris , ending the second
Huguenot rebellion .
February 10 –
Battle of Ningyuan : In
Xingcheng in
China , after an 8-day battle,
Ming dynasty commander
Yuan Chonghuan defeats the much larger force of
Manchu leader
Nurhaci , who dies soon after and is succeeded by
Huang Taiji .
February 11 – Emperor
Susenyos of Ethiopia and Patriarch
Afonso Mendes declare the primacy of the Roman See over the
Ethiopian Church , and
Roman Catholicism the state religion of
Ethiopia .
March 5 – The
Treaty of Monzón is signed between France and Spain to end the
Valtellina War and the
First Genoese-Savoyard War .
March 7 –
Ambrósio I Nimi a Nkanga becomes the new monarch of
Kongo (in what is now
Angola ) after the overthrow of
Garcia I Mvemba a Nkanga , restoring the Kwilu dynasty to power.
March 15 – Portugal declares war on
Queen Nzinga of the
Kingdom of Ndongo , located in what is now Angola.
April–June
April 25 –
Thirty Years' War :
Battle of Dessau Bridge –
Albrecht von Wallenstein defeats
Ernst von Mansfelds army.
May 4 – Peter Minuit becomes director-general of
New Netherland , for the
Dutch West India Company .
May 24 –
Peter Minuit buys
Manhattan from a
Native American tribe (
Lenape or
Shinnecock ) for trade goods, valued at 60
guilders ($24.00 ).
May 30 –
Wanggongchang Explosion in
Beijing , China: a gunpowder factory explosion destroys part of the city and kills 20,000 people.
[2]
June 15 – King
Charles I of England dissolves the English
Parliament .
[3]
June 20 – Nine Jesuit Christian missionaries, six of them Japanese and three from Spain, are executed in Japan, followed by eight Japanese converts to Christianity on July 12.
June 28 – A
7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes
Lingqiu County , in
China , killing 5,200 residents.
July–September
October–December
Date unknown
Births
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné
Louis Hennepin
Richard Ottley
January–March
January 9 –
Armand Jean le Bouthillier de Rancé , French founder of the Trappist Order (d.
1700 )
January 13 –
Johann Philipp of Hanau-Lichtenberg , German nobleman (d.
1669 )
January 25 –
Edward Evelyn , British politician (d.
1692 )
February 5 –
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné , French aristocrat and writer (d.
1696 )
[10]
February 7 –
Fabian von Fersen , Swedish soldier and statesman (d.
1677 )
February 18 –
Francesco Redi , Italian physician (d.
1697 )
March 3 –
John Hele , English politician (d.
1661 )
March 9 –
Lorentz Mortensen Angell , Norwegian merchant and landowner (d.
1697 )
March 10 –
Cornelis Van Caukercken , Flemish engraver, printseller (d.
1680 )
March 12 –
John Aubrey , English antiquary and writer (d.
1697 )
[11]
March 16 –
Cornelius Van Steenwyk , American politician (d.
1684 )
March 21 –
Peter of Saint Joseph Betancur , Spanish Catholic saint, missionary to Guatemala (d.
1667 )
March 30 –
Atto Melani , Italian opera singer (d.
1714 )
April–June
April 16 –
Robert Harley , English politician (d.
1673 )
[12]
April 10 –
Franz Egon of Fürstenberg , German count in the Holy Roman Empire (d.
1682 )
April 23 –
Maurice Henry, Prince of Nassau-Hadamar (1653–1679) (d.
1679 )
April 25 –
Sigmund von Birken , German Baroque poet (d.
1681 )
May 10 –
Jan Jacobszoon Hinlopen , Dutch art collector and merchant (d.
1666 )
May 12 –
Louis Hennepin , Roman Catholic priest, missionary of the Franciscan Recollet Order (French (d.
1704 )
May 14 –
Willem Joseph van Ghent , Dutch admiral (d.
1672 )
May 16 –
Andrea Carlone , Italian painter (d.
1697 )
May 17 –
Countess Palatine Eleonora Catherine of Zweibrücken , sister of King Charles X of Sweden (d.
1692 )
May 21 –
Wolfgang Carl Briegel , German organist and composer (d.
1712 )
May 27 –
William II, Prince of Orange (d.
1650 )
June 8 –
William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford , member of England's House of Lords (d.
1695 )
June 9 –
Sir John Newton, 2nd Baronet , English Member of Parliament (d.
1699 )
June 18 –
John Mordaunt, 1st Viscount Mordaunt , English politician (d.
1675 )
June 29 –
Jeffrey Daniel , English politician (d.
1681 )
July–September
October–December
October 4 –
Richard Cromwell , Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (d.
1712 )
[14]
October 5 –
George II, Duke of Württemberg-Montbéliard (1662–1699) (d.
1699 )
October 17 –
Samuel Danforth , American Puritan minister, preacher, poet, astronomer, missionary (d.
1674 )
October 23 –
Francis Marsh , Irish bishop (d.
1693 )
November 8
November 30 –
Cesare Pronti , Italian painter (d.
1708 )
December 8 – Queen
Christina of Sweden (d.
1689 )
December 10 –
George Christian, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (1669–1671) (d.
1677 )
December 12 –
Giovanni Francesco Ginetti , nephew of Cardinal Marzio Ginetti (d.
1691 )
December 18 –
William Stanhope , English politician (d.
1703 )
December 20 –
Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff , German statesman (d.
1692 )
December 21 –
Francis Scott, 2nd Earl of Buccleuch , son of Walter Scott (d.
1651 )
December 31 –
Ladislaus, Count Esterházy , Hungarian noble (d.
1652 )
Deaths
Francis Bacon died
9 April
Isabella Brant died
15 July
Antonio Franco (blessed) died
2 September
Nurhaci died
30 September
Juraj V Zrinski died
28 December
January 2 –
Maria Buynosova-Rostovskaya (b.
1590 )
January 19 –
Ruqaiya Sultan Begum (b.
1542 )
January 23 –
Decio Carafa , Archbishop of Naples who had previously served as papal nuncio to the Spanish Netherlands (1606–1607) and to Habsburg Spain (1607–1611) (b.
1556 )
January 24 –
Samuel Argall , English adventurer and naval officer (b.
1580 )
c. January? –
Patrick Galloway , Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (b. c.
1551 )
February 7 –
William V, Duke of Bavaria (b.
1548 )
February 11 –
Pietro Cataldi , Italian mathematician (b.
1552 )
February 20 –
John Dowland , English composer and lutenist (b.
1563 )
[15]
February 21 –
Odoardo Farnese , Italian Catholic cardinal (b.
1573 )
March 3 –
William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire , England (b.
1552 )
March 10 –
John Dormer , English Member of Parliament (b.
1556 )
March 19 –
Pierre Coton , French Jesuit and royal confessor (b.
1564 )
April 5 –
Anna Koltovskaya (b. c.
1552 )
April 9 –
Francis Bacon , English scientist and statesman (b.
1561 )
[16]
April 11 –
Marino Ghetaldi , Croatian mathematician and physicist (b.
1568 )
May 4 –
Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells , English bishop, Bible translator (b.
1569 )
May 17 –
Joan Pau Pujol , Catalan composer (b.
1570 )
May 28 –
Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk (b.
1561 )
[17]
June 7 –
Anne of Saint Bartholomew , Spanish Discalced Carmelite nun (b.
1550 )
June 16
June 29 –
Scipione Cobelluzzi , Italian cardinal and archivist (b.
1564 )
June 30 –
Honda Tadatoki (b.
1596 )
July 13 –
Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester , English statesman (b.
1563 )
[18]
July 15 –
Isabella Brant , Flemish artists' model, first wife of painter Peter Paul Rubens (b.
1591 )
July 19 –
Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel , German regent (b.
1573 )
July 27 –
Louis V, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b.
1577 )
August 13 –
Maria of Brunswick-Lüneburg , Duchess Consort of Saxe-Lauenburg (1582–1619) (b.
1566 )
August 15 –
Girolamo Asteo , Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Veroli (1608–1626) (b.
1562 )
August 23 –
Francesco Cereo de Mayda , Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Lavello (1621–1626) (b.
1568 )
August 25 –
Alfonso Pozzi , Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Borgo San Donnino (1620–1626) (b.
1582 )
August 28 –
Isabella of Savoy , Italian noble (b.
1591 )
September 2 –
Antonio Franco , Italian Catholic bishop, prelate of Santa Lucia del Mela (b.
1585 )
September 16 –
Denis-Simon de Marquemont , French cardinal and archbishop (b.
1572 )
September 17 –
Johann Schweikhard von Kronberg , Archbishop-Elector of Mainz from 1604 to 1626 (b.
1553 )
September 21 –
François de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguières , Constable of France (b.
1543 )
September 22 –
Aodh Mac Cathmhaoil , Irish Franciscan theologian and Archbishop of Armagh (b.
1571 )
September 25 –
Lancelot Andrewes , English scholar (b.
1555 )
[19]
September 26 –
Wakisaka Yasuharu , Japanese warrior (b.
1554 )
September 30 –
Nurhaci , Chinese chieftain (b.
1559 )
October 1 –
Lady Abahai (b.
1590 )
October 2 –
Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, 1st Count of Gondomar , Spanish diplomat (b.
1567 )
October 10
October 13 –
Domingo de Oña , Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Gaeta (1605–1626) (b.
1560 )
October 28 –
Muhammad Parviz , Mughal emperor (b.
1589 )
October 29 –
Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua , Italian Catholic cardinal (b.
1587 )
October 30 –
Willebrord Snell , Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b.
1580 )
November 21 –
Anna Maria of Hesse-Kassel , countess consort of Nassau-Saarbrücke (b.
1567 )
November 25 –
Edward Alleyn , English actor (b.
1566 )
November 29 –
Ernst von Mansfeld , German soldier (b. c.
1580 )
December 6 –
John Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar , German duke (b.
1594 )
December 8 –
John Davies , English poet and politician (b.
1569 )
[21]
December 10 –
Edmund Gunter , English mathematician (b.
1581 )
December 28
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