1624

Centuries:	16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades:	1590s 1600s 1610s - 1620s - 1630s 1640s 1650s
Years:	1621 1622 1623 - 1624 - 1625 1626 1627

1624 in topic:
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Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors
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Year 1624 (MDCXXIV) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

[edit] Events of 1624

January 24 - Alfonso Mendez, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa.

August - The Siege of Breda begins, and will continue for eleven months.
October (start) - Tuscan/Papal/Neapolitan force defeats Algerians near Sardinia (details).

Martin Luther's German translation of the Bible is publicly burned by order of the Pope.
The Netherlands establish a trading colony at Kaohsiung on Taiwan.
Thirty Walloon families settle in the New Netherland colony.
The Virginia Land Company's charter is revoked and Virginia becomes a crown 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 around north star.
Sir William Borlase's Grammar School is founded.
Dr Challoner's Grammar School is founded.
The Palace of Versailles is first built, as a hunting lodge.
Muchalls Castle plasterwork ceilings are completed.
Construction of Chateau Cheverny begins.
Pembroke College, Oxford is 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 first discovers gases.
Cardinal Richelieu appointed by Louis XIII to be his advisor.
Henry Briggs publishes Arithmetica Logarithmica.

**1624 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1624 MDCXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2377
Armenian calendar	1073 ԹՎ ՌՀԳ
Bahá'í calendar	-220 – -219
Buddhist calendar	2168
Chinese calendar	4260/4320-11-11 (癸亥年十一月十一日) — to — 4261/4321-11-22 (甲子年十一月廿二日)
Ethiopian calendar	1616 – 1617
Hebrew calendar	5384 – 5385
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1679 – 1680
- Shaka Samvat	1546 – 1547
- Kali Yuga	4725 – 4726
Holocene calendar	11624
Iranian calendar	1002 – 1003
Islamic calendar	1033 – 1034
Japanese calendar	Genna 10 (元和10年) — changed to — Kan'ei 1 (寛永元年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2284 (皇紀2284年)
- Jōmon Era	11624
Julian calendar	1669
Korean calendar	3957
Thai solar calendar	2167
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See also Category:1624 births.

February 12 - George Heriot, Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist (born 1563)
February 13 - Stephen Gosson, English satirist (born 1554)
February 17 - Juan de Mariana, Spanish historian (born 1536)
July - Alonso Fajardo y Tenza, governor of the Philippines
November 10 - Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (born 1573)
November 17 - Jakob Böhme, German mystic (born 1575)
December 5 - Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (born 1560)
December 14 - Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English statesman (born 1536)
December 26 - Simon Marius, German astronomer (born 1573)
date unknown
- Francesco Andreini, Italian actor (born c1548)

See also Category:1624 deaths.