1616 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1616?
- March 5, 1616 – Nicolaus Copernicus’s book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium is banned by the catholic chuch
- March 20, 1616 – Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.
- July 11, 1616 – Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
- September 15, 1616 – The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy.
- October 25, 1616 – Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.
Who Were Born In The Year 1616?
- January 13, 1616 – Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (d. 1680)
- January 16, 1616 – François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (d. 1669)
- May 18, 1616 – Johann Jakob Froberger, German composer (d. 1667)
- May 24, 1616 – John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale (d. 1682)
- October 11, 1616 – Andreas Gryphius, German writer (d. 1664)
- October 20, 1616 – Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (d. 1680)
- November 23, 1616 – John Wallis, English mathematician (d. 1703)
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