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Everything about 1611 totally explainedYear 1611 ( MDCXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1611
April
July - December
August 2 - Jamestown: Deputy Governor Sir Thomas Gates returns to Virginia with 280 people, provisions and cattle on 6 ships and assumes control, ruling that the fort must be strengthened.
September - Jamestown: Thomas Dale, with 350 men, starts building Henricus.
October 30 - Gustavus Adolphus succeeds his father Charles IX as king of Sweden.
November 1 - At Whitehall Palace in London, William Shakespeare's romantic comedy The Tempest is performed for the first time.
Undated
The complete King James Version of the Bible is first published in England.
Johannes and David Fabricius discover sunspots.
Emperor Go-Mizunoo succeeds Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan.
Jamestown: John Rolfe imports tobacco seeds from the island of Trinidad (Nicotiana tabacum); the native tobacco is Nicotiana rustica.
Thomas Dale founds the city of Henricus on the James River, a few miles south of present day Richmond, Virginia.
Denmark attacks Sweden.
George Abbot becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.
Construction begins on Naghsh-i Jahan Square in Isfahan, Persia.
Births
January 28 - Johannes Hevelius, astronomer (d. 1687)
May 16 - Pope Innocent XI (d. 1689)
July 16 - Archduchess Cecilia Renata of Austria, Queen of Poland (d. 1644)
September 1 - William Cartwright (d. 1643)
September 8 - Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (d. 1671)
September 11 - Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, Marshal of France (d. 1675)
November 1 - François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (d. 1656)
date unknown
probable
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Deaths
February 12 - Jodocus Hondius, cartographer (b. 1563)
February 26 - Antonio Possevino, papal legate to Russia
March 5 - Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1533)
June 8 - Jean Bertaut, French poet (b. 1552)
July 26 - Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542)
August 2 - Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1562)
August 20 - Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer (b. 1548)
October 3 - Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (b. 1554)
October 30 - King Charles IX of Sweden (b. 1550)
date unknown - Camillo Mariani, sculptor (b. 1565)
date unknown - Henry Hudson, explorer (b. 1560)
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