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1613

Years: 1610 1611 1612 - 1613 - 1614 1615 1616

Decades: 1580s 1590s 1600s - 1610s - 1620s 1630s 1640s

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1613 in literature 1613 in science

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

• January - Galileo observes Neptune, but mistakes it for a star and so is not credited with its discovery.
• February 7 - An Assembly of the Russian Empire elects Mikhail Romanov to be Tsar of Russia, and establishes the Romanov Dynasty.
• June 29 - Fire destroys London's Globe Theatre

• Francesco Andreini's L'Adamo is published.
• King James I of Scotland successfully mediates the Peace of Knäred treaty between Denmark and Sweden.
• The New River was opened, to supply London with drinking water from Hertfordshire
• Adriaen Block's ship Tyger is destroyed by fire, forcing him and his crew to spend the winter on Manhattan
• James I of England comdemns duels in his proclamation Against Private Challenges and Combats
• Ottoman Empire invades Hungary
• Locust swarm destroys La Camarque, France

Births

• André Le Nôtre, French landscape gardener (died 1700)
• Claude Perrault, French architect (died 1688)
• Henry Vane, English politician (died 1662)
• Richard Crashaw, English religious poet (died 1649)
• François de la Rochefoucauld, French writer (died 1680)

Deaths

• April 27 - Robert Abercromby
• Thomas Overbury, English poet (born 1581)
• Thomas Bodley, Englsih scholar and diplomat (born 1545)

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