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1616 Historical Event(s)
March 5, 1616
– Nicolaus Copernicus’s book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium is banned by the catholic chuch
March 20, 1616
– Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.
July 11, 1616
– Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
September 15, 1616
– The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy.
October 25, 1616
– Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.
Who Were Born On 1616?
January 13, 1616
– Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (d. 1680)
January 16, 1616
– François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (d. 1669)
May 18, 1616
– Johann Jakob Froberger, German composer (d. 1667)
May 24, 1616
– John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale (d. 1682)
October 11, 1616
– Andreas Gryphius, German writer (d. 1664)
October 20, 1616
– Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (d. 1680)
November 23, 1616
– John Wallis, English mathematician (d. 1703)