1614 - Definition and Overview

Events

• April 5 - In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
• October 11 - Adriaen Block and a group of Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the area he explored and named "New Netherland".
• The French Estates-General meets for the last time before the era of the French Revolution. In between, France will be governed as an absolute monarchy.
• John Napier publishes a paper outlining his discovery of logarithms.
• The University of Groningen is established.
• Institution of the Rosicrucian Order in Germany according to Fraternitas Rosae Crucis.
• Toyotomi Hideyori attempts to restore Osaka Castle. Tokugawa Ieyasu, father of the Shogun, is outraged at this act, and takes the castle by storm.

Births

• January 1 - John Wilkins, clergyman
• July 10 - Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey

Deaths

• April 7 - El Greco, artist
• August 21 - Elizabeth Bathory (serial killer)