1619

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1619 (MDCXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter F) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday (dominical letter C) of the Julian calendar, the 1619th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 619th year of the 2nd millennium, the 19th year of the 17th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1610s decade. As of the start of 1619, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

January–June

January – James I of England's Banqueting House, Whitehall in London is destroyed by fire. Inigo Jones is commissioned to design a replacement.

March – Battle of Sarhu: Manchu leader Nurhaci is victorious over the Ming forces.

March 20 – Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor dies, leaving the Holy Roman Empire without an official leader to deal with the Bohemian Revolt.

May 8 – The Synod of Dort has its final meeting.

May 13 – Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after having been convicted of treason.

May 30 – Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Governor General of the Dutch East Indies, conquers Jayakarta and renames it Batavia.

June 10 – Thirty Years' War – Battle of Sablat: Protestant forces are defeated.

June 21 – Dulwich College founded by Edward Alleyn, in Dulwich, London.

July–December

July 30 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.

August – The first African slaves were brought to North America on a Dutch trading ship in the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia.

August 5 – Thirty Years' War – Battle of Věstonice: Bohemian forces defeat the Austrians.

August 10 – The Treaty of Angoulême ends the civil war in France.

August 26 – Frederick V, Elector Palatine is elected the King of Bohemia.

August 28 – Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

October 8 – Thirty Years' War – The Treaty of Munich is signed by Ferdinand II and Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria.

November 16 – William Parker School, Hastings is founded by the will of Rev. William Parker

November 23 – Thirty Years' War – Battle of Humenné: Polish troops assist the Holy Roman Emperor by defeating a Transylvanian force, forcing Gabor Bethlen to raise his siege of Vienna.

December 4 – Thirty-eight colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (considered by some to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas).

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Jahangir grants a British mission important commercial concessions at Surat on the west coast of India.

England establishes its first outpost in India.

The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth reaches the height of its territorial extent.

Salé Rovers declare the port of Salé on the Barbary Coast to be the Republic of Salé, independent of the Sultan of Morocco, with the Dutch-born corsair Jan Janszoon as president.

The Danish–Dutch whaling settlement of Smeerenburg is founded in Svalbard.

An expedition in Sri Lanka led by Phillippe de Oliveira deposes and executes the last Jaffna king Cankili II, putting an end to the Jaffna kingdom.

A Spanish expedition sails around Tierra del Fuego, mapping the coast and discovering the Diego Ramírez Islands.