1624 - Definition and Overview

Events

• The Netherlands establish a trading colony at Kaohsiung on Taiwan.
• Thirty Walloon families settle in the New Netherland 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.
• Dr Challoner's Grammar School is founded.
• The Palace of Versailles is first built, as a hunting lodge.
• Chateau Cheverny begins construction.
• Pembroke College, Oxford founded.
• 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 discover gases

Births

• July - George Fox, Quakers founder (+ 1691)
• August 25 - Père François de La Chaise (+ 1709)
• October 30 - Paul Pellisson, French author (+ 1693)
• Koxinga, Chinese military leader (+ 1662)

Deaths

• December 5 - Gaspard Bauhin, botanist
• December 26 - Simon Marius, German astronomer
• Francesco Andreini, Italian actor
• Gaspard Bauhin, botanist