1619 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1619?
- May 13, 1619 – Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after being convicted of treason.
- June 10, 1619 – Thirty Years’ War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
- July 30, 1619 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
- August 28, 1619 – Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
- November 7, 1619 – Elizabeth of Scotland and England is crowned Queen of Bohemia.
- November 10, 1619 – René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy.
- December 4, 1619 – 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (this is considered by many to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas).
Who Were Born In The Year 1619?
- February 24, 1619 – Charles Le Brun, French artist (d. 1690)
- March 6, 1619 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier, poet (d. 1655)
- August 6, 1619 – Barbara Strozzi (baptized), Italian singer and composer (d. 1677)
- August 29, 1619 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (d. 1683)
- November 7, 1619 – Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (d. 1692)
- December 17, 1619 – Prince Rupert of the Rhine, English Civil War figure (d. 1682)
- December 28, 1619 – Antoine Furetière, French writer (d. 1688)
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