1614

Year 1614 (MDCXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1614

July - December

* August 23 - The University of Groningen is established in the Netherlands.
* September 1 - In England, Sir Julius Caesar becomes Master of the Rolls.
* October 11 - Adriaen Block and a group of Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the area he explored and named "New Netherland".
* November 16 - The Treaty of Xanten ends the Julich-Cleves War.
* November 19 - The Siege of Osaka begins.

Undated

* The French Estates-General meets for the last time before the era of the French Revolution. In between, France will be governed as an absolute monarchy.
* John Napier publishes "Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio", a paper outlining his discovery of logarithms.
* The Rosicrucian Order is instituted in Germany according to Fraternitas Rosae Crucis.
* Toyotomi Hideyori attempts to restore Osaka Castle. Tokugawa Ieyasu, father of the Shogun, is outraged at this act, and takes the castle by storm.

Births

* January 1 - John Wilkins, English clergyman (d. 1672)
* January 5 - Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (d. 1662)
* July 10 - Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (d. 1686)
* December 16 - Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1674
*"date unknown" - Franciscus Sylvius, German scientist (d. 1672)

Deaths

* April 7 - El Greco, or Domênikos Theotokópoulos (Greek: Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος), Cretian painter, sculptor and architect (b. 1541)
* June 15 - Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, English politician (b. 1540)
* July 1 - Isaac Casaubon, French-born classical scholar (b. 1559)
* July 14 - Camillus de Lellis, Italian saint (b. 1550)
* July 15 - Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, French historian and biographer
* August 11 - Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (b. 1552)
* August 21 - Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian serial killer (b. 1560)
* September - Giovanni de Macque, composer (b. c. 1550)