1616

Year 1616 () was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a  of the 10-day slower ).

January - June

 * - A commission of Roman Catholic theologians, the "Qualifiers", reports that the idea that the Sun is stationary is "foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it explicitly contradicts in many places the sense of Holy Scripture..."
 * - meets  in person, to discuss his position.
 * - The is signed, ending a series of rebellions in France.

July - December

 * - in Japan forbids foreigners other than Chinese from traveling freely or trading outside of the ports of  and.
 * - The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in,.
 * — makes the second recorded landfall by a European on n soil, at an island off the n coast.

Undated

 * arrives in England.
 * War occurs between and.
 * is founded in.
 * ' De revolutionibus is placed on the by the.
 * arrives in, having escaped.
 * First recorded eruption of the occurs.
 * The is appointed part of the household guard of King.
 * 's (also known as the Blue Mosque) is completed.

Births

 * -, Flemish mystic (died )
 * -, French soldier (died )
 * -, Polish noble (szlachcic) (died )
 * -, vicar of Earls Colne in Essex (died )
 * -, was a Danish poet (died )
 * -, (died )
 * -, mistica española
 * -, French painter and engraver (died )
 * -, illegitimate son of King Gustavus Adolphus (Gustav II Adolf) and his mistress Margareta Slots (died )
 * -, Scottish judge (died )
 * -, German composer (died )
 * -, (died )
 * -, Italian artist, (died )
 * June -, secretary to the council of state in Protectorate England and spymaster for Oliver Cromwell (died )
 * -, second son of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan and empress Mumtaz Mahal (died )
 * -, Dutch artist (died )
 * August -, British peer and soldier (died )
 * -, German writer (died )
 * -, English botanist (died )
 * -, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (died )
 * -, English mathematician, (died )
 * -, English pamphleteer and author (died )
 * date unknown
 * , French missionary explorer in Canada (died )
 * , was an English Royalist (died )
 * , Polish nobleman (szlachcic) (died )
 * , Scottish nobleman (died )
 * , English music theorist of the 17th century (died )
 * , Indian astronomer and mathematician (died )
 * , German poet (died )
 * , colonial magistrate (died )
 * , Buddhist monk of the &#332;baku Zen sect (died )
 * , Nonconformist church leader and theologian (died )
 * , English Puritan soldier and Leveller in the army of Oliver Cromwell (died )
 * , British academic and Master of University College, Oxford from 1676 to 1688 (died )
 * probable
 * , older brother of Allart van Everdingen (died )
 * , was one of the fourteen children of John, comte de La Fayette (died )
 * , North German musician and composer of the Baroque period (died )


 * See also .

Deaths

 * -, khan of the Qasim Tatars, Grand Duke of Muscovy and Tver
 * -, English theatre manager (born )
 * February -, Protestant divine (born )
 * -, priest and historian (born )
 * -, Polish-Lithuanian noble (szlachcic) (born )
 * -, physician of James I (born )
 * -, dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre (born )
 * -, daughter of William V, Duke of Bavaria and Renata von Lothringen (born )
 * -, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (born )
 * -, Spanish military commander and governor of the Philippines
 * (O.S., Tuesday) -, English playwright and poet (born )
 * (N.S., Saturday) -, Spanish author (born )
 * -, Japanese shogun (born )
 * -, Polish noble (born )
 * -, merchant from Nizhny Novgorod
 * -, commander and daimyo (born )
 * -, Irish soldier (born c) (born )
 * -, German physician and chemist (born )
 * -, Chinese playwright and poet (born )
 * -, Italian architect (born )
 * -, Polish noble (szlachcic) (born )
 * -, Catholic scholar and writer (born )
 * -, German theologian (born )
 * -, English author, editor and translator (born c.)
 * -, Dutch mariner (born )
 * -, Polish political writer (born )
 * date unknown
 * , Italian painter of devotional (born )
 * , monk of the Hongan-ji (born )
 * , law professor and legal writer (born )
 * , (born )
 * , Polish rabbi (born )
 * , English bishop (born )
 * , daimyo
 * probable
 * , Dutch explorer
 * , Polish Renaissance composer (born )
 * , Virginia Colony religious leader (born )
 * , Virginia Colony religious leader (born )


 * See also .