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Year 1618 (''' MDCXVIII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian Calendar ).

EVENTS OF 1618

January - June

March 8 - Johannes Kepler discovers the Third Law Of Planetary Motion (he soon rejects the idea after some initial calculations were made but on May 15 confirms the discovery).

May 23 - The Second Defenestration Of Prague - Protestant noblemen throw three representatives of Ferdinand II out of a window. The event precipitates the Thirty Years' War .

June 14 – Estimated date when Joris Veseler prints the first Dutch newspaper Courante Uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c. in Amsterdam .

July 20 - Pluto reached, according to sophisticated Mathematical Calculations , its second most recent Aphelion . The next one occurred in 1866 , and the following one will occur in ''2113''.

July - December

August 29 - Johan Van Oldenbarnevelt and Hugo Grotius are imprisoned by Maurice Of Nassau, Prince Of Orange .

September 18 -marks the beginning of the 13th Baktun in the Mayan calendar, the final phase of the Great Cycle.

September 19 - November 21 - Siege Of Plzeň

October 29 - English adventurer, writer, and Courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I Of England .

Undated

The margraves of Brandenburg is granted Polish approval to inherit the Duchy Of Prussia .

November 13 , the Synod Of Dordrecht has its first meeting.

Change of Emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mustafa I ( 1617 - 1623 ) to Osman II (1618- 1622 ).

The 3000 seat Teatro Farnese , the first permanent Proscenium Theatre , was built into the Great Hall of the Palazzo della Pilotta in Parma , Italy in 1618.

BIRTHS

January 1 - Bartolomé Estéban Murillo , Spanish painter (d. 1682 )

April 2 - Francesco Maria Grimaldi , Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1663 )

April 13 - Roger De Rabutin, Comte De Bussy , French writer (d. 1693 )

November 3 - Aurangzeb , Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1707 )

November - Simon Arnauld De Pomponne , French diplomat and minister of Louis XIV (d. 1699 )

''date unknown''

--- Ādiŧyavoṇś , Ayuthian monarch

--- Henry Bennet, 1st Earl Of Arlington , politician (member of the Cabal )

--- Richard Lovelace , English poet (died c 1657 )

: ''See also .''

DEATHS

February 20 - Philip William, Prince Of Orange (b. 1554 )

March 23 - James Hamilton, 1st Earl Of Abercorn , Scottish politician (born c 1575 )

June 7 - Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr , English Governor of Virginia (b. 1577 )

August 23 - Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero , Dutch writer (b. 1585 )

September 28 - Joshua Sylvester , English poet (b. 1563 )

October 29 - Sir Walter Raleigh , English courtier and settler of Virginia (executed) (b. 1554 )

November 2 - Archduke Maximilian III Of Austria (b. 1558 )

December 6 - Jacques-Davy Duperron , French cardinal (b. 1556 )

December 10 - Giulio Caccini , Italian composer (born 1551 )

''probable'' - Chief Powhatan , whose proper name was Wahunsenacawh, father of Pocahontas (born c. 1547 )

: ''See also .''