1616

Events

• Dirk Hartog lands on an island off the Western Australian coast
• Pocahontas arrives in England
• War between Venice and Austria
• Collegium Musicum founded in Prague
• Nicolaus Copernicus' De revolutionibus is placed on the Index of Forbidden Books by the Roman Catholic Church

Births

• May 24 - John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale, (+ 1682)
• May 25 - Carlo Dolci, Italian artist, (+1686)
• August 6 - John Higginson, English clergyman, (+1708)

Deaths

• January 6 - Philip Henslowe, English theatre manager
• April 23 (Gregorian Calendar)- Miguel Cervantes, Spanish author.
• April 23 (Julian Calendar)/ May 3 (Gregorian Calendar) - William Shakespeare, English playwright and poet.
• August 7 - Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect
• Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun
• Alexander Whitaker, Virgina Colony religious leader (drowned) (b. 1585)

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