1614

1614 (MDCXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1614th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 614th year of the 2nd millennium, the 14th year of the 17th century, and the 5th year of the 1610s decade. As of the start of 1614, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1580s  1590s  1600s  – 1610s –  1620s  1630s  1640s
Years:	1611 1612 1613 – 1614 – 1615 1616 1617

1614 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1614 MDCXIV
Ab urbe condita	2367
Armenian calendar	1063 ԹՎ ՌԿԳ
Assyrian calendar	6364
Balinese saka calendar	1535–1536
Bengali calendar	1021
Berber calendar	2564
English Regnal year	11 Ja. 1 – 12 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar	2158
Burmese calendar	976
Byzantine calendar	7122–7123
Chinese calendar	癸丑年 (Water Ox) 4310 or 4250     — to — 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 4311 or 4251
Coptic calendar	1330–1331
Discordian calendar	2780
Ethiopian calendar	1606–1607
Hebrew calendar	5374–5375
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1670–1671
- Shaka Samvat	1535–1536
- Kali Yuga	4714–4715
Holocene calendar	11614
Igbo calendar	614–615
Iranian calendar	992–993
Islamic calendar	1022–1023
Japanese calendar	Keichō 19 (慶長１９年)
Javanese calendar	1534–1535
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3947
Minguo calendar	298 before ROC 民前298年
Nanakshahi calendar	146
Thai solar calendar	2156–2157
Tibetan calendar	阴水牛年 (female Water-Ox) 1740 or 1359 or 587     — to — 阳木虎年 (male Wood-Tiger) 1741 or 1360 or 588

Events

• April 5 – In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
• October 11 – Adriaen Block and a group of Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the area he explored and named "New Netherland".
• The French Estates-General meets for the last time before the era of the French Revolution. In between, France will be governed as an absolute monarchy.
• John Napier publishes a paper outlining his discovery of logarithms.
• The University of Groningen is established.
• Institution of the Rosicrucian Order in Germany according to Fraternitas Rosae Crucis.
• Toyotomi Hideyori attempts to restore Osaka Castle. Tokugawa Ieyasu, father of the Shogun, is outraged at this act, and takes the castle by storm.

Births

• January 1 – John Wilkins, English clergyman (d. 1672)
• January 5 – Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (d. 1662)
• July 10 – Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (d. 1686)
• December 16 – Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1674)
• Franciscus Sylvius, German scientist (d. 1672)

Deaths