1619

Events

• May 13 - Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after having been accused of treason.
• July 30 - In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
• 16 November - foundation of William Parker School, Hastings by the will of Rev William Parker.
• December 4 - Thirty-eight colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (this is considered by some to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas).
• Slaves are first brought to the Americas.
• Ferdinand II elected as Holy Roman Emperor.
• England establishes its first outpost in India.
• The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth reaches the height of its territorial extent.

Births

• February 24 - Charles Le Brun, French painter and art theorist
• March 6 - Cyrano de Bergerac, soldier, poet

Deaths

• March 4 - Anne of Denmark, Consort of James I of England
• March 13 - Richard Burbage, English actor
• March 20 - Mathias, Holy Roman Emperor
• May 13 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman
• August 30 - Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord
• October 14 - Samuel Daniel, Egnlish poet (b. 1562)
• Hans Lippershey, Dutch lensmaker (b. 1570(?))

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