1619

Years: 1616 1617 1618 - 1619 - 1620 1621 1622
Decades: 1580s 1590s 1600s - 1610s - 1620s 1630s 1640s
Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century

May 13 - Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after having been accused of treason.
July 30 - In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
August - Slaves are first brought to the Americas.
16 November - foundation of William Parker School, Hastings by the will of Rev William Parker.
December 4 - Thirty-eight colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (this is considered by some to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas).
Ferdinand II elected as Holy Roman Emperor.
England establishes its first outpost in India.
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth reaches the height of its territorial extent.

February 24 - Charles Le Brun, French painter and art theorist (d. 1690)
March 6 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier and poet (d. 1655)
August 6 - Barbara Strozzi, Italian singer and composer (d. 1677)
August 28 - Anne Genevieve of Bourbon-Condé (d. 1679)
August 29 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (d. 1683)
November 7 - Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (d. 1692)
December 17 - Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (d. 1682)
December 28 - Antoine Furetière, French writer (d. 1688)
Jean Claude, French protestant clergyman (d. 1687)

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