1624

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century

Decades: 1570s 1580s 1590s 1600s 1610s - 1620s - 1630s - 1640s 1650s 1660s 1670s

Years: 1619 1620 1621 1622 1623 - 1624 - 1625 1626 1627 1628 1629

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Events

• The Netherlands establish a trading colony at Kaohsiung on Taiwan.
• The Dutch establish a settlement on Manhattan.
• 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.

Births

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

Deaths

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

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