1619 - All About All

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 (d. 1690)
• March 6 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier and poet (d. 1655)
• August 6 - Barbara Strozzi, Italian singer and composer (d. 1677)
• August 28 - Anne Genevieve of Bourbon-Condé (d. 1679)
• August 29 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (d. 1683)
• November 7 - Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (d. 1692)
• December 17 - Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (d. 1682)
• December 28 - Antoine Furetière, French writer (d. 1688)
• Jean Claude, French protestant clergyman (d. 1687)

Deaths

• January 7 - Nicholas Hilliard, English painter
• February 3 - Henry Brooke, 8th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (b. 1564)
• February 19 - Lucilio Vanini, Italian philosopher (b. 1585)
• March 4 - Anne of Denmark, queen of James I of England (b. 1574)
• March 13 - Richard Burbage, English actor
• March 20 - Mathias, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1557)
• May 13 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (b. 1547)
• July 22 - Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian saint (b. 1559)
• August 30 - Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
• October 14 - Samuel Daniel, English poet (b. 1562)
• November 13 - Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (b. 1555)
• Hans Lippershey, Dutch lensmaker