Osaka Castle (1597), one of Japan’s most famous landmarks
In the year 1614, Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe in Jamestown, Virginia (Apr 5), hostilities resulting from an attempt by Toyotomi Hideyori to restore Osaka Castle begin, outraging Tokugawa Ieyasu (Nov 19), the Siege of Osaka begins (Dec 4), Christianity is banned throughout Japan (1614), the Rosicrucian Order is instituted in the Holy Roman Empire - and all these fine people were born:
1614-0105 Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria* soldier/ administrator /patron of the arts - Wiener Neustadt (1662/48)
1614-0110 Kanō Yasunobu* 狩野 安信 painter - Kyoto, Japan (1685/71)
1614-0120 Samuel Gott* politician - London, England (1671/57)
1614-0202 Robert Ellison* politician/Sheriff of Newcastle - Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England (1678/63)
1614-0214 John Wilkins* clergyman/ natural philosopher/author - Fawsley, Northamptonshire, England (1672/58)
1614-0216 Christopher Merret* physician/ scientist - Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England (1695/81) alt. birth year 1615
1614-0303 Peter Leycester* antiquarian/ historian - Nether Tabley, Cheshire, England (1678/64)
1614-0323 Jahanara Begum* Mughal princess - Ajmer, Rajasthan, India (1681/67)
1614-0325 Juan Carreño de Miranda* painter - Avilés, Spanish Empire (1685/71)
1614-0402 Martin Schoock* academic/polymath - Utrecht, Ducth Republic (1669/55)
1614-0418 Nicolas Robert* miniaturist/ engraver - Langres, Kingdom of France (1685/70)
1614-0425 Hieronymus van Beverningh* Dutch regent/diplomat/patron of the arts - Gouda (1690/76)
1614-0510 Zacharias Wagenaer* German-Dutch clerk/ merchant/governor of the Dutch Cape Colony - Dresdner Neustadt (1668/54)
1614-0512 Giovanni Bernardo Carboni* Italian painter - Albaro, Republic of Genoa (1683/68)
1614-0528 Gustav Evertsson Horn* military man/politician - Lemu, Sweden-Finland (1666/51)
1614-0615 Emilie of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst* princess consort - Delmenhorst (1670/56)
1614-0624 John Belasyse* nobleman/ officer/MP - Newburgh Grange, Yorkshire, England (1689/75)
1614-0710 Arthur Annesley* nobleman/ Anglo-Irish royalist statesman - Dublin, Ireland (1686/71)
1614-0723 Bonaventura Peeters the Elder* Flemish marine painter - Antwerp (1652/38)
1614-0803 Juan de Arellano* painter - Santorcaz, Spanish Empire (1676/62)
1614-0813 Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels* nobleman/ administrator - Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (1680/65)
1614-0907 Gustaf Otto Stenbock* soldier/politician - Torpa, Västergötland, Sweden (1685/71)
1614-0911 Philipp Buchner* German composer - Wertheim, Württemberg (1669/54)
1614-0927 Daniel Hallé* painter - Rouen, Kingdom of France (1675/60)
1614-0928 Juan Hidalgo de Polanco* harpist/composer - Madrid, Spanish Empire (1685/70)
1614-0930 Bengt Skytte* courtier/ diplomat - Stockholm, Swedish Empire (1683/68)
1614-1003 Sigmund von Erlach* military commander/politician - Bern, Switzerland (1699/85)
1614-1012 Henry More* philosopher - Grantham, Lincolnshire, England (1687/72)
1614-1020 Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont (B) physician/alchemist/ writer - Vilvoorde, Flemish Brabant (1699-1699)
1614-1104 Alexander Charles Vasa* son of King Sigismund III of Poland - Warsaw, Poland (1634/20)
1614-1111 John Bulkeley* politician/MP - Burgate, Hampshire, England (1662/47)
1614-1221 Francis Anderson* landowner/ politician/MP - Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England (1679/64)
1614-1231 Mechtilde of the Blessed Sacrament* (b Catherine de Bar) nun/founder of an order - Saint-Die, Vosges, Kingdom of France (1698/83)
Updated 26.12.2021
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