Events

• 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.
• The second volume of Miguel Cervantes' Don Quixote is published.
• End of the Sengoku Period in Japan.

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)
• 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)
• Georg Daniel Schultz, Polish painter

See also Category:1615 births.

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

See also Category:1615 deaths.

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