1614

align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1611 1612 1613 - 1614 - 1615 1616 1617

align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1580s 1590s 1600s - 1610s - 1620s 1630s 1640s

align="center" | Centuries:
16th century - 17th century - 18th century

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.

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