1618
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1618 (MDCXVIII) is the 618th year of the 2nd millennium, the 18th year of the 17th century, and the 9th year of the 1610s decade.
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Events
- March 8 – Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion (he soon rejects the idea after some initial calculations were made, but on May 15 confirms the discovery).
- May 23 – The Second Defenestration of Prague – Protestant noblemen hold a mock trial, and throw two direct representatives of Ferdinand II of Germany (Imperial Governors) and their scribe out of a window into a pile of manure, exacerbating a low-key rebellion into the Bohemian Revolt (1618–1621), precipitating the Thirty Years' War into armed conflict, and further polarizing Europe on religious grounds.
- October 29 – English adventurer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded at the Palace of Westminster, for allegedly conspiring treasonably against James I of England in 1603, following pressure from the Spanish government, over his attack on their settlement on the Orinoco, on his last (1617–18) voyage.
- November 13 – The Synod of Dort has its first meeting.
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Art and culture
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Literature
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Fiction
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Non-fiction
- Speculum Sophicum Rhodostauroticum is an early text of Rosicrucianism, published in 1618 by the pseudonymous "Theophilus Schweighardt Constantiens
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Visual art
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Music
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Architecture
- The 3,000 seat Teatro Farnese, the first permanent proscenium theatre, is built into the Great Hall of the Palazzo della Pilotta in Parma, Italy.
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Births
- Jean Le Pautre
- January 1 (bapt.) – Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter (d. 1682)
- April 13 – Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (d. 1693)
- June 28 – Jean Le Pautre, French designer and engraver (d. 1682)
- September 14 – Peter Lely, Dutch painter (d. 1680)
- September 29 – Michiel Sweerts, Flemish painter (d. 1664)
- December 26 – Elisabeth of the Palatinate, German princess, philosopher, and Calvinist (d. 1680)
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Deaths
- Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero (1585 - 1618)
- Christoph Jamnitzer (1563-1618)
- October 29 – Sir Walter Raleigh, English courtier and settler of Virginia (executed) (b. 1554)
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