Cape Horn Monument in Chile (1992), paying homage to sailors who perished attempting to round Cape Horn. Picture credit Jens Bludau
In the year 1616, English diplomat Sir Thomas Roe presents his credentials to the Mughal Emperor Jahangir, opening the door to the British presence in India (Jan 10), Dutch captain Willem Schouten rounds the southern tip of South America and names it Kaap Hoorn (Jan 29), William Shakespeare dies (Apr 23), Pocahontas arrives in England with her family and the colonial governor of Virginia, never to see home again (Jun 12), the Tokugawa shogunate forbids foreigners other than Chinese from traveling and trading freely in Japan (Aug 8), the Blue Mosque in Istanbul is completed, Dutch traders smuggle the coffee plant out of Mocha - and all these fine people were born:
1616-0101 Nabeshima Naozumi* 鍋島 直澄 daimyō of the early Edo period/ son of Nabeshima Katsushige - Japan (1669/53)
1616-0113 Antoinette Bourignon* French-Flemish mystic/adventurer - Lille, Kingdom of France (1680/64)
1616-0202 Sébastien Bourdon* painter/engraver - Montpellier, Kingdom of France (1671/55)
1616-0214 Marc Restout* painter - Caen, Kingdom of France (1684/68)
1616-0225 Isaack Luttichuys (B) Dutch painter - London, England (1673/57)
1616-0228 Kaspar Förster (B) German singer/composer - Danzig, Holy Roman Empire (1673/56)
1616-0301 Maurizio Cazzati* Italian composer - Luzzara, Duchy of Mantua (1678/62)
1616-0329 Johann Erasmus Kindermann* organist/composer - Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (1655/39)
1616-0407 Thomas Hopkins (B) early settler of Providence Plantations/to America at age 19 - Yeovilton, Somerset, England (1684/c.68)
1616-0427 Jeremias Felbinger* German Socinian teacher/ writer/ lexicographer - Brzeg, Holy Roman Empire (c.1690/c.74)
1616-0516 Archibald Primrose* lawyer/judge/Lord Carrington - Scotland (1679/63)
1616-0518 Johann Jakob Froberger* keyboard virtuoso/organist/composer - Stuttgart, Holy Roman Empire (1667/50)
1616-0624 Ferdinand Bol* painter/ etcher/draftsman - Dordrecht, Dutch Republic (1680/64)
1616-0628 Lucas Franchoys the Younger* Flemish painter - Mechelen (1681/64)
1616-0707 John Leverett (B) soldier/merchant/governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony - Boston, Lincolnshire, England (1678 or 79/c.62)
1616-0710 Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra* painter - Cordoba, Spanish Empire (1668/51)
1616-0806 John Higginson* clergyman/to America at age 12 - Leicester, England (1708/92)
1616-0830 Giovan Battista Nani* librarian/amateur botanist and historian/ambassador - Venice, Republic of Venice (1678/62)
1616-0909 Nicolás de Villacis* painter/ disciple of Diego Velázquez - Murcia, Spansh Empire (1694/77)
1616-0925 Alexander Morus* Franco-Scottish Protestant preacher - Castres, Kingdom of France (1670/54)
1616-1002 Andreas Gryphius* poet/playwright - Glogau, Silesia (1664/47)
1616-1018 Nicholas Culpeper* botanist/herbalist/astrologer - Ockley, Surrey, England (1654/37)
1616-1113 Nicholas Dennys* politician - llfracombe, Devon, England (1692/75)
1616-1203 John Wallis* clergyman/mathematician - Ashford, Kent, England (1703/86)
1616-1213 Edward Chamberlayne* political writer - Oddington, Gloucestershire, England (1703/86)
Updated 23.11.2022
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