1611

Year 1611 (MDCXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1611

April

* 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).

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 romantic comedy "The Tempest" is performed for the first time.

Undated

* The complete King James Version of the Bible is first published in England.
* Johannes and David Fabricius discover sunspots.
* Emperor Go-Mizunoo succeeds Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan.
* 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.
* Denmark attacks Sweden.
* George Abbot becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.
* Construction begins on Naghsh-i Jahan Square in Isfahan, Persia.

Births

* 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 (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 of Liechtenstein, second Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1684)
**Diego Quispe Tito, Peruvian painter (d. 1681)
*"probable"
**D'Artagnan, musketeer (d. 1673)

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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 2 - Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1562)
* August 20 - Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer (b. 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)
*"date unknown" - Henry Hudson, explorer (b. 1560)

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