1624
| 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 |
1624 (MDCXXIV) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday in the Julian calendar. The Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar. The Julian calendar remained in localized use until 1923.
Events
[change | change source]- 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