1613 - Definition and Overview

Events

• January - Galileo observes Neptune, but mistakes it for a star and so is not credited with its discovery.
• February 7 - An Assembly of the Russian Empire elects Mikhail Romanov to be Tsar of Russia, and establishes the Romanov Dynasty.
• June 29 - Fire destroys London's Globe Theatre
• Francesco Andreini's L'Adamo is published.
• King James I of Scotland successfully mediates the Peace of Knäred treaty between Denmark and Sweden.
• The New River was opened, to supply London with drinking water from Hertfordshire
• Adriaen Block's ship Tyger is destroyed by fire, forcing him and his crew to spend the winter on Manhattan
• James I of England comdemns duels in his proclamation Against Private Challenges and Combats
• Ottoman Empire invades Hungary
• Locust swarm destroys La Camarque, France

Births

• André Le Nôtre, French landscape gardener (died 1700)
• Claude Perrault, French architect (died 1688)
• Henry Vane, English politician (died 1662)
• Richard Crashaw, English religious poet (died 1649)
• François de la Rochefoucauld, French writer (died 1680)

Deaths

• January 28 - Thomas Bodley, English scholar and diplomat (born 1545)
• April 27 - Robert Abercromby
• September 8 - Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer
• September 15 - Thomas Overbury, English poet (born 1581)