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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

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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 19 - Beginning of the Siege Of Osaka .

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 Logarithm s.

The University Of Groningen is established.

Institution of the Rosicrucian Order 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 )

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DEATHS

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)

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