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Year 1615 (''' MDCXV ''') was a Common Year Starting On Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian Calendar ).

EVENTS OF 1615

January - June

1 January - The New Netherland Company is granted a 3 year Monopoly in North America n trade between the 40th and 45th Parallel s.

March 10 - Saint John Ogilvie , a Catholic priest, is hanged in Glasgow , Scotland .

May 6 - The Peace Of Tyrnau was signed between Holy Roman Emperor Matthias and Gábor Bethlen .

June 2 - First Récollet Missionaries arrive at Quebec City , from Rouen , France .

June 4 - Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu took Osaka Castle in Japan , beginning a period of peace which lasts nearly 250 years.

July - December

November - The Mughal s under Abu Bakr attack Kajali , a border post of the Ahom Kingdom .

November - Hasekura Tsunenaga visits Pope Paul V in Rome to request a trade treaty between Japan and Mexico .

December 6 - In England , John Winthrop , later governor of the future Massachusetts Bay Colony , marries his second wife (of 4), Thomasine Clopton, daughter of William Clopton of Castleins, near Groton, England .

Undated

The second volume of Miguel Cervantes ' '' Don Quixote '' is published.

End of the Sengoku Period in Japan .

Founding of the Grolsch Brewery in Groenlo , Netherlands .

Persian hordes led by Shah-Abbas kill all the monks at the David Gareja Monastery Complex in Georgia set fire to its collection of manuscripts and works of art.

Mary Talbot, Countess Of Shrewsbury , is released from the Tower Of London in recognition of her role in helping to discover the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury .

The Somers Isles Company is founded to administer Bermuda .

Johannes Kepler publishes ''Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo'' in response to Galileo 's discovery of Jupiter 's moons.

King James I of Great Britain sent Sir Thomas Roe as his ambassador to the Mughal court of Jahangir .

The Perse School in Cambridge , England, is founded by Dr Stephen Perse .

BIRTHS

January 14 - John Biddle , English theologian (d. 1662 )

January 25 - Govert Flinck , Dutch painter (d. 1660 )

January 30 - Thomas Rolfe , Virginia colonist and son of Pocahontas

March 13 - Pope Innocent XII (d. 1700 )

June 20 (or July 31 ) - Salvator Rosa , Italian painter (died 1673 )

September 7 - Colonel John Birch , English soldier (d. 1691 )

November 5 - Ibrahim I , Ottoman Sultan (d. 1648 )

November 12 - Richard Baxter , English clergyman (d. 1691 )

November 24 - Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1690 )

''date unknown'' - Georg Daniel Schultz , Polish painter

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DEATHS

January 31 - Claudio Aquaviva , Italian Jesuit (b. 1543 )

February 4 - Dom Justo Takayama , Japanese warlord (b. 1552 )

March 4 - Hans Von Aachen , German painter (b. 1552 )

May 4 - Adriaan Van Roomen , Flemish mathematician (b. 1561 )

May 7 - Sanada Yukimura , Japanese samurai (b. 1567 )

May 27 - Marguerite De Valois , queen of Henry IV Of France (b. 1553 )

June 23 - Mashita Nagamori , Japanese warlord (b. 1545 )

September 1 - Étienne Pasquier , French lawyer and man of letters (b. 1529 )

September 27 - Arbella Stuart , English noblewoman and woman of letters (b. 1575 )

November 24 - Sethus Calvisius , German calendar reformer (b. 1556 )

''date unknown'' - Alonso De Guzmán El Bueno, 7th Duke Of Medina Sidonia , leader of the Spanish Armada (b. 1550 )

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