1613

Year 1613 (MDCXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1613

January - June

* January 20 - King James I of England successfully mediates the Treaty of Knäred between Denmark and Sweden.
* February 7 - An assembly of the Russian Empire elects Mikhail Romanov to be Tsar of Russia, and establishes the Romanov Dynasty, ending the Time of Troubles.
* February 14 - Elizabeth, daughter of King James I of England, marries Frederick V, Elector Palatine.
* March 27 - The first English child is born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
* March 29 - Samuel de Champlain becomes the first unofficial Governor of New France.
* April - Near Jamestown, Virginia, Samuel Argall captures Chief Powhatan’s daughter, Pocahontas, and she is brought to Jamestown.
* June - At Jamestown, John Rolfe makes the first shipment of West Indian tobacco grown in Virginia to England.
* June 29 - Fire destroys London's famed Globe Theatre.

July - December

* August 29 - The Sicilians under de Aragon defeat the Turkish trade fleet.
* November 3 - English royal favourite Robert Carr is created 1st Earl of Somerset.
* 26 December - The Earl of Somerset marries Frances Howard, occasioning John Donne's " [http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/eclogue.php Eclogue"] .

Undated

* The New River is opened, to supply London with drinking water from Hertfordshire.
* James I of England condemns duels in his proclamation "Against Private Challenges and Combats".
* The Ottoman Empire invades Hungary.
* A locust swarm destroys La Camarque, France.
* The territory of Kuwait is founded.
* Sultan Agung takes the throne of the kingdom of Mataram on Java.
* Near Jamestown, Virginia, Sir Thomas Dale starts a settlement called "Bermuda City" which later becomes part of Hopewell, Virginia.

Births

* February 2 - Noël Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
* March 12 - André Le Nôtre, French landscape gardener (d. 1700)
* April 7 - Gerhard Douw, Dutch painter (d. 1675)
* May 31 - John George II, Elector of Saxony (d. 1680)
* August 15 - Gilles Ménage, French scholar (d. 1692)
* September 15 - François de la Rochefoucauld, French writer (d. 1680)
* September 25 - Claude Perrault, French architect (d. 1688)
* November 5 - Isaac de Benserade, French poet (d. 1691)
* December 23 - Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish soldier (d. 1676)
*"date unknown"
**Henry Vane, English politician (d. 1662)
**Khushal Khan Khattak, Afghan poet (d. 1690)
*"probable"
**Richard Crashaw, English poet (d. 1649)

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Deaths

* January 28 - Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and library founder (b. 1545)
* April 27 - Robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit missionary (b. 1532)
* August 7 - Thomas Fleming, English judge (b. 1544)
* August 18 - Giovanni Artusi, Italian composer (b. c. 1540)
* September 8 - Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (b. 1566)
* September 15 - Thomas Overbury, English poet (murdered) (b. 1581)
* November 16 - Trajano Boccalini, Italian satirist (b. 1556)
* December 6 - Anton Praetorius, German pastor (b. 1560)
*"date unknown" - Phung Khac Khoan, Vietnamese military strategist, politician, diplomat and poet (b. 1528)

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