1624
Appearance
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 16th century – 17th century – 18th century |
Decades: | 1590s 1600s 1610s – 1620s – 1630s 1640s 1650s |
Years: | 1621 1622 1623 – 1624 – 1625 1626 1627 |
Gregorian calendar | 1624 MDCXXIV |
Ab urbe condita | 2377 |
Armenian calendar | 1073 ԹՎ ՌՀԳ |
Assyrian calendar | 6374 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1545–1546 |
Bengali calendar | 1031 |
Berber calendar | 2574 |
English Regnal year | 21 Ja. 1 – 22 Ja. 1 |
Buddhist calendar | 2168 |
Burmese calendar | 986 |
Byzantine calendar | 7132–7133 |
Chinese calendar | 4320 or 4260 — to — 4321 or 4261 |
Coptic calendar | 1340–1341 |
Discordian calendar | 2790 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1616–1617 |
Hebrew calendar | 5384–5385 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1680–1681 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1545–1546 |
- Kali Yuga | 4724–4725 |
Holocene calendar | 11624 |
Igbo calendar | 624–625 |
Iranian calendar | 1002–1003 |
Islamic calendar | 1033–1034 |
Japanese calendar | Genna 10 / Kan'ei 1 ( |
Javanese calendar | 1545–1546 |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
Korean calendar | 3957 |
Minguo calendar | 288 before ROC |
Nanakshahi calendar | 156 |
Thai solar calendar | 2166–2167 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴水 (female Water-Pig) 1750 or 1369 or 597 — to — 阳木 (male Wood-Rat) 1751 or 1370 or 598 |
1624 (MDCXXIV) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday in the Julian calendar. The Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar. The Julian calendar remained in localized use until 1923.
Events
[change | change source]- January 24 – Alfonso Mendez, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa.
- The Netherlands establish a trading colony at Kaohsiung on Taiwan.
- Thirty Walloon families settle in the New Netherland colony.
- Oslo is destroyed by fire. When rebuilt by Christian IV, it would be renamed Christiania.
- Claudio Monteverdi publishes Tancredi e Clorinda.
- Jean Louis Guez de Balzac publishes his Lettres.
- Bernardo de Balbuena publishes El Bernardo.
- Santa Rosalia makes a miraculous appearance during a plague in Palermo.
- Kalmia latifolia (mountain laurel) first recorded in America.
- Jakob Bartsch records the constellation Camelopardalis.
- Dr Challoner's Grammar School is founded.
- The Palace of Versailles is first built, as a hunting lodge.
- Chateau Cheverny begins construction.
- Pembroke College, Oxford founded.
- The Japanese Shogun expels Spanish from the land and severs trade with the Philippines
- Mail service begins in Denmark
- University founded in Bolivia
- War between England and Spain
- Cornelius Drebbel discover gases
- Cardinal Richelieu appointed by Louis XIII to be his advisor
- Henry Briggs publishes Arithmetica Logarithmica