History
1614
General
Population: 542 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Ben Johnson (comedy), Sit Thomas Overbury Characters, John Webster The Duchess of Malfi,
Sir Walter Raleigh History of the World, Sir William Leighton writes 54 psalms
Art includes Domenichino "Last Communion of St. Jerome", Reubens,
Music includes Girolamo Frescobaldi "Toccate di Cembalo", Marco da Gagliano (masses and motets)
- Mathematics: John Napier writes regarding logarithms
- Medicine: Santorio Santorio writes regarding metabolism and perspiration
- Deaths: Author Seigneur de Brantome (Pierre de Bourdeille), Artist El Greco, Architect Robert Smythson
Asia
- General: By this time, Dutch, English, Danish and French East India Companies founded
- India: English establish factory at Surat
Europe
- General: Gustavus Adolphus II of Sweden captures Novgorod from Russians
- Denmark: Danish East India Company founded
- England: James I convenes "Addled Parliament" which refuses to discuss finance – dissolved
Development of glass industry in England
Founders Company in London incorporated
- France: Maria Queen Regent of France summons the Estates General of France to counteract power of nobility
- German States: Treaty of Xanten divides Brandenburg and Neuburg
Salzburg Cathedral built by Santino Salari
Bankruptcy of Augsburg banking house of Welser
- Holland: U of Groningen founded
General
- Virginian colonists prevent French settlements in Maine and Nova Scotia
East
- General: Cornelius Jacobsen Mey explores lower Delaware region
- New Hampshire: John Smith explores region
- New York: Adriaen Block explores Long Island Sound
South
- Virginia: Pochahontas marries John Rolfe - later producing son