1624
year
1624 (MDCXXIV)was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1624th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 624th year of the 2nd millennium, the 24th year of the 17th century, and the 5th year of the 1620s decade. As of the start of 1624, 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: | 1590s 1600s 1610s – 1620s – 1630s 1640s 1650s |
| Years: | 1621 1622 1623 – 1624 – 1625 1626 1627 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1624 MDCXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2377 |
| Armenian calendar | 1073 ԹՎ ՌՀԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6374 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1545–1546 |
| Bengali calendar | 1031 |
| Berber calendar | 2574 |
| English Regnal year | 21 Ja. 1 – 22 Ja. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2168 |
| Burmese calendar | 986 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7132–7133 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 4320 or 4260 — to — 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 4321 or 4261 |
| Coptic calendar | 1340–1341 |
| Discordian calendar | 2790 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1616–1617 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5384–5385 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1680–1681 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1545–1546 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4724–4725 |
| Holocene calendar | 11624 |
| Igbo calendar | 624–625 |
| Iranian calendar | 1002–1003 |
| Islamic calendar | 1033–1034 |
| Japanese calendar | Genna 10 / Kan'ei 1 (寛永元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1545–1546 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
| Korean calendar | 3957 |
| Minguo calendar | 288 before ROC 民前288年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 156 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2166–2167 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴水猪年 (female Water-Pig) 1750 or 1369 or 597 — to — 阳木鼠年 (male Wood-Rat) 1751 or 1370 or 598 |
Events
- January 24 – Alfonso Mendez, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa.
- The Netherlands establish a trading colony at Kaohsiung on Taiwan.
- Thirty Walloon families settle in the New Netherland colony.
- Oslo is destroyed by fire. When rebuilt by Christian IV, it would be renamed Christiania.
- Claudio Monteverdi publishes Tancredi e Clorinda.
- Jean Louis Guez de Balzac publishes his Lettres.
- Bernardo de Balbuena publishes El Bernardo.
- Santa Rosalia makes a miraculous appearance during a plague in Palermo.
- Kalmia latifolia (mountain laurel) first recorded in America.
- Jakob Bartsch records the constellation Camelopardalis.
- Dr Challoner's Grammar School is founded.
- The Palace of Versailles is first built, as a hunting lodge.
- Chateau Cheverny begins construction.
- Pembroke College, Oxford founded.
- The Japanese Shogun expels Spanish from the land and severs trade with the Philippines
- Mail service begins in Denmark
- University founded in Bolivia
- War between England and Spain
- Cornelius Drebbel discover gases
- Cardinal Richelieu appointed by Louis XIII to be his advisor
- Henry Briggs publishes Arithmetica Logarithmica
🔥 Top keywords: Main PageSpecial:Search0Slash (punctuation)BlackSpecial:RecentChanges4 (number)DavidSOLID (object-oriented design)Wikipedia:AboutFile:Sexual intercourse with internal ejaculation.webmHelp:ContentsHelp:IntroductionLisa Sparxxx2023 UEFA Champions League FinalColour24-hour clockAdolf Hitler UunonaBismillahir Rahmanir Raheem6 (number)T. N. SeshanFile:ASCII-Table-wide.svg20 (number)Poor Things (movie)United StatesCristiano RonaldoList of people who have walked on the MoonAli Malikov50 (number)17 (number)The Valley (2024 TV series)GrassList of mathematical symbolsList of U.S. states and territories by time zone8 (number)List of countries by areaWikipedia:Simple talkList of largest Hindu templesRama
