1619

Years:
1616 1617 1618 - 1619 - 1620 1621 1622

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

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

1619 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

1619 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events

May 13 - Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after having been accused of treason.
July 30 - In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
August - First Black Brought to America.
August 28 - Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
November 16 - foundation of William Parker School, Hastings by the will of Rev William Parker.
December 4 - Thirty-eight colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (this is considered by some to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas).

England establishes its first outpost in India.
Muchalls Castle reconstruction is completed.
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth reaches the height of its territorial extent.

February 24 - Charles Le Brun, French painter and art theorist (d. 1690)
March 6 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier and poet (d. 1655)
August 6 - Barbara Strozzi, Italian singer and composer (d. 1677)
August 28 - Anne Genevieve of Bourbon-Condé (d. 1679)
August 29 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (d. 1683)
November 7 - Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (d. 1692)
December 17 - Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (d. 1682)
December 28 - Antoine Furetière, French writer (d. 1688)
Jean Claude, French Protestant clergyman (d. 1687)