1618

Year 1618 () was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a  of the 10-day slower ).

January - June

 * - discovers the  (he soon rejects the idea after some initial calculations were made but on  confirms the discovery).
 * - The  - Protestant noblemen throw three representatives of  out of a window. The event precipitates the.
 * – Estimated date when prints the first Dutch newspaper  in.
 * - reached, according to sophisticated, its second most recent . The next one occurred in , and the following one will occur in.

July - December

 * - and  are imprisoned by.
 * - marks the beginning of the 13th in the, the final phase of the Great Cycle.
 * - adventurer, writer, and  Sir  is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against.
 * - the has its first meeting.
 * - the has its first meeting.

Undated

 * The markgraves of are granted  approval to inherit the.
 * Change of of the  from  (-) to  (1618-).
 * The 3000 seat, the first permanent , was built into the Great Hall of the Palazzo della Pilotta in , in 1618.
 * The  presents  to the.

Births

 * -, Spanish painter (d. )
 * -, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. )
 * -, French writer (d. )
 * -, of India (d. )
 * November -, French diplomat and minister of (d. )
 * date unknown
 * , Ayuthian monarch
 * , politician (member of the )
 * , English poet (died c)


 * See also .

Deaths

 * - (b. )
 * -, Scottish politician (born c )
 * -, English Governor of Virginia (b. )
 * -, Dutch writer (b. )
 * -, English poet (b. )
 * -, English courtier and settler of Virginia (executed) (b. )
 * - Archduke (b. )
 * -, French cardinal (b. )
 * -, Italian composer (born )
 * probable -, whose proper name was Wahunsenacawh, father of (born c.)


 * See also .