1616

Years:
1613 1614 1615 - 1616 - 1617 1618 1619

Decades:
1580s 1590s 1600s - 1610s - 1620s 1630s 1640s

Centuries:
16th century - 17th century - 18th century

1616 by topic:
Arts and Science
Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science
Lists of leaders
Colonial governors - State leaders
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Works category
Works

1616 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events

September 15 - The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy.
October 25 — Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at an island off the Western Australian coast
Pocahontas arrives in England
War between Venice and Austria
Collegium Musicum founded in Prague
Nicolaus Copernicus' De revolutionibus is placed on the Index of Forbidden Books by the Roman Catholic Church

January 6 - Philip Henslowe, English theatre manager (born c1550)
April 23 (N.S., Saturday) - Miguel Cervantes, Spanish author (born 1547)
April 23 (O.S., Tuesday) - William Shakespeare, English playwright and poet (born 1564)
June 1 - Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun (born 1543)
July 20 - Hugh O'Neill, 3rd Earl of Tyrone, Irish soldier (born c1540)
July 25 - Andreas Libavius, German physician and chemist (born 1550)
August 7 - Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (born 1548)
October 23 - Leonhard Hutter, German theologian (born 1563)
November 23 - Richard Hakluyt, English writer (born c1552)
Alexander Whitaker, Virginia Colony religious leader (drowned) (born 1585)
Tang Xianzu, Chinese playwright and poet (born 1550)