1611

This article is about the year 1611.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1580s  1590s  1600s  – 1610s –  1620s  1630s  1640s
Years:	1608 1609 1610 – 1611 – 1612 1613 1614

1611 by topic:

Arts and Science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1611 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1611 MDCXI
Ab urbe condita	2364
Armenian calendar	1060 ԹՎ ՌԿ
Assyrian calendar	6361
Bengali calendar	1018
Berber calendar	2561
English Regnal year	8 Ja. 1 – 9 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar	2155
Burmese calendar	973
Byzantine calendar	7119–7120
Chinese calendar	庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 4307 or 4247     — to — 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 4308 or 4248
Coptic calendar	1327–1328
Discordian calendar	2777
Ethiopian calendar	1603–1604
Hebrew calendar	5371–5372
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1667–1668
- Shaka Samvat	1533–1534
- Kali Yuga	4712–4713
Holocene calendar	11611
Igbo calendar	611–612
Iranian calendar	989–990
Islamic calendar	1019–1020
Japanese calendar	Keichō 16 (慶長１６年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3944
Minguo calendar	301 before ROC 民前301年
Thai solar calendar	2153–2154

February - Sunspots seen.

May - King James Version of the Bible.

1611 (MDCXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (dominical letter B) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter F) of the Julian calendar, the 1611th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 611th year of the 2nd millennium, the 11th year of the 17th century, and the 2nd year of the 1610s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1611 is 10 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

Events

January–June

• February 27 – Sunspots are observed by telescope by Frisian astronomers Johannes Fabricius and David Fabricius and Johannes publishes the results of these observations in De Maculis in Sole observatis in Wittenberg later this year. Such early discoveries are overlooked however, and the first sighting is claimed a few months later by Galileo Galilei and Christoph Scheiner.
• March 4 – George Abbot is enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
• March 9 – Yemana Kristos, brother of Emperor of Ethiopia Susenyos I, ends the rebellion of Melka Sedeq in the Battle of Segaba in Begemder.
• April 4 – Denmark declares war on Sweden, then captures Kalmar.
• April 28 – The Colegio de Nuestra Señora del Santísimo Rosario is established in Manila, the Philippines (later renamed Colegio de Santo Tomas, now known as the University of Santo Tomas).
• May 2 – The Authorized King James Version of the Bible is published for the first time in London, England, printed by Robert Barker.
• May 9 – In Japan, sixteen-year-old Emperor Go-Mizunoo succeeds Emperor Go-Yōzei.
• June 22 – The English explorer and sea captain Henry Hudson, his teenage son John, and six crewmen are set adrift in or near Hudson Bay after a mutiny on his ship Discovery. They are never seen again.

July–December

• August 2 – Jamestown: Deputy Governor Sir Thomas Gates returns to Virginia with 280 people, provisions and cattle on 6 ships and assumes control, ruling that the fort must be strengthened.
• September – Jamestown: Thomas Dale, with 350 men, starts building Henricus.
• October 30 – Gustavus Adolphus succeeds his father Charles IX as King of Sweden.
• November 1 – At Whitehall Palace in London, William Shakespeare's last solo play The Tempest is performed, perhaps for the first time.

Date unknown

• Uprising in Moscow against occupying Polish forces, resulting in a major fire.
• Jamestown: John Rolfe imports tobacco seeds from the island of Trinidad (Nicotiana tabacum); the native tobacco is Nicotiana rustica.
• Thomas Dale founds the city of Henricus on the James River, a few miles south of present day Richmond, Virginia.
• Construction begins on Naqsh-e Jahan Square in Isfahan, Persia.
• Thomas Sutton founds Charterhouse School on the site of the old Carthusian monastery in Charterhouse Square, Smithfield, London.

Births

• January 5 – Tsarevich Ivan Dmitriyevich, son of False Dmitry II (d. 1614)
• February 5 (bapt.) – Philip Sherman, English-born founder of Rhode Island (d. 1687)
• January 28 – Johannes Hevelius, astronomer (d. 1687)
• May 16 – Pope Innocent XI (d. 1689)
• July 16 – Archduchess Cecilia Renata of Austria, Queen of Poland (d. 1644)
• September 1 – William Cartwright, English dramatist (d. 1643)
• September 8 – Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (d. 1671)
• September 11 – Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, Marshal of France (d. 1675)
• November 1 – François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (d. 1656)
• date unknown
  • Karl Eusebius, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1684)
  • Diego Quispe Tito, Peruvian painter (d. 1681)
• probable – Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan, French count and musketeer, on whom the fictional D'Artagnan from the novel The Three Musketeers is based (d. 1673)

Deaths

• February 12 – Jodocus Hondius, cartographer (b. 1563)
• February 26 – Antonio Possevino, papal legate to Russia
• March 5 – Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1533)
• June 8 – Jean Bertaut, French poet (b. 1552)
• July 26 – Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542)
• August – Antoni Clarassó i Terès, Spanish priest
• August 2 – Katō Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1562)
• August 27 – Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer (b. c. 1548)
• October 3 – Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (b. 1554)
• October 30 – King Charles IX of Sweden (b. 1550)
• date unknown
  • Camillo Mariani, sculptor (b. 1565)
  • Tiryaki Hasan Pasha, Turkish beylerbey
  • Henry Hudson, explorer