1614

1614 (MDCXIV) was a common year beginning on a Wednesday according to the Gregorian calendar.

Events

• February 3: The Louvre Palace is represented ballet Don Quichotte dansé par Mme. Sautenir.
• April 5: In Virginia (United States), the Indian Pocahontas married the English colonist John Rolfe.
• April 24 Beatification of Saint Teresa of Jesus by Paulo V.
• 4 May: in the Atlantic Ocean, about 30 km south of the island Terceira (38°24′N 27°00′O / 38.4, -27, on the Azores Islands, 1550 km west of Lisbon), at 17:00 (local time) an 11-degree earthquake on the Mercalli scale (12 degrees) destroys most of the houses (of adobe).
• In Alpuente you will discover a carving in polychrome wood, resulting to be the oldest in the Valencian Community.
• In Spain a Apocryphal Quixote is published, called Second volume of the ingenious hydalgo Don Quixote de la ManchaAlonso Fernández de Avellaneda.
• The village of Albany is founded in the current state of New York (United States).
• Last meeting of the French parliament until the call of the General States in 1789 by Louis XVI during the French Revolution.

Art and literature

• Ben Jonson
  • The fair of San Bartolomé

Births

• Francisco Ricci, Spanish painter.
• Burnaz Atike Sultan, First Ottoman,Hija De Ahmed I and Sister Minor of Murad IV And Sister Major of Ibrahim I(F.1675)
• Şehzade Kasim, Ottoman Prince, Son of Ahmed I And Young Brother of Murad IV And Senior Brother of Ibrahim I, Mellizo De Burnaz Atike Sultan,(F.1638)
• Juan Carreño de Miranda, Spanish painter.
• Manuel Pereira, Portuguese sculptor.
• January 5: Leopoldo Guillermo, Austrian duke (f. 1662).

Deaths

• 2 January: Luisa de Carvajal and Mendoza, Spanish mystical poet (n. 1566).
• April 2: Enrique I, Duke of Montmorency, French noble.
• 7 April: El Greco (Dominico Theotokópoulos), a Spanish painter of Greek origin.
• 21 August: Erzsébet Báthory, Countess of Transylvania, alleged serial killer (n. 1560).