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1625

Year 1625 (MDCXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

January - June

March 27 - Charles Stuart (Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland) succeeds James I of England.

April 4 - Stadtholder Frederick Henry marries Amalia, Countess von Solms-Braunfels.

April 7 - Albrecht von Wallenstein is appointed German supreme commander.

May 1

*a Portuguese-Spanish expedition recaptures Salvador (Bahia).

*Prince Frederick Henry is appointed stadtholder of Holland.

May 11 - Boers besiege the Frankenburg estate in Upper Austria.

May 15/16 - Rebellious farmers are hanged in Vocklamarkt, Upper Austria.

June 2 - Prince Frederick Henry is sworn in as the stadtholder of Holland and Zealand.

June 5 - Spanish troops under Spinola conquer Breda.

June 13 - King Charles I of England marries Henrietta Maria, Princess of France and Navarre.

June 15 - Breda surrenders to the Spanish troops of general Ambrogio de Spinola.

June 18 - The English Parliament refuses to vote Charles I the right to collect customs duties for his entire reign, restricting him to one year instead.

July - December

August 6 - Earl Ernest Casimir is appointed as stadtholder of Groningen.

August 16 - Ernest Casimir of Nassau-Dietz is appointed stadtholder of Drenthe.

September 13 - A total of 16 rabbis (including Isaiah Horowitz) are imprisoned in Jerusalem.

September 24 - The Dutch attack San Juan, Puerto Rico.

October 8 - Admiral George Villiers' fleet sails from Plymouth, England to Cadiz.

December 9 - The Netherlands and England sign a military peace treaty.

Undated

William Oughtred invents the slide rule.

James Ussher becomes Archbishop of Armagh.

The Dutch settle Manhattan, founding the town of New Amsterdam. The town would transform into a piece of what is now New York City.

The First Savoine War is fought between the Republic of Genoa and the Duchy of Savoy.

The Bohemian Revolt ends.

Danish intervention starts.

A Huguenot revolt is suppressed.

Births

June 8 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian astronomer and engineer (d. 1712)

July 10 - Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (d. 1703)

August 13 - Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and scientist (d. 1698)

August 14 - François de Harlay de Champvallon, Archbishop of Paris (d. 1695)

August 20 - Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (d. 1709)

September 24 - Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (d. 1672)

October 4 - Jacqueline Pascal, French child prodigy and sister of Blaise Pascal (d. 1661)

November 30 - Jean Domat, French jurist (d. 1696)

December 14 - Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (d. 1695)

Deaths

January 7 - Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer

March 7 - Johann Bayer, German astronomer (b. 1572)

March 25 - Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (b. 1569)

March 27 - King James I of England and Ireland/James VI of Scotland (b. 1566)

March 29 - Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Spanish historian (b. 1549)

April 23 - Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (b. 1567)

April 27 - Mori Terumoto, Japanese warrior (b. 1553)

June 1 - Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (b. 1568)

June 5 - Orlando Gibbons, English composer and organist (b. 1583)

August - John Fletcher, English writer (b. 1579)

September 20 - Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (b. 1555)

September 26 - Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian (b. 1579)

October 22 - Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (b. 1561)

December 9 - Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (b. 1547)

date unknown

*Robert Cushman, Plymouth Colony settler (b. 1578)

*Willem Schouten Dutch navigator (b. 1567?)