1624
| Years: 1621 1622 1623 - 1624 - 1625 1626 1627 | |
| Decades: 1590s 1600s 1610s - 1620s - 1630s 1640s 1650s | |
| Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1624 in literature 1624 in science | |
Events
- The Netherlands establish a trading colony at Kaohsiung on Taiwan.
- Thirty Walloon families settle in the New Netherland colony.
- Oslo is destroyed by fire. When rebuilt by Christian IV, it would be renamed Christiania.
- Claudio Monteverdi publishes Tancredi e Clorinda.
- Jean Louis Guez de Balzac publishes his Lettres.
- Bernardo de Balbuena publishes El Bernardo.
- Santa Rosalia makes a miraculous appearance during a plague in Palermo.
- Kalmia latifolia (mountain laurel) first recorded in America.
- Jakob Bartsch records the constellation Camelopardalis.
- Dr Challoner's Grammar School is founded.
- The Palace of Versailles is first built, as a hunting lodge.
- Chateau Cheverny begins construction.
- Japanese Shogun expels Spanish from the land and severs trade with the Philippines
- Mail service begins in Denmark
- University founded in Bolivia
- War between England and Spain
- Cornelius Drebbel discover gases
Births
- July - George Fox, Quakers founder (+ 1691)
- August 25 - Père François de La Chaise (+ 1709)
- October 30 - Paul Pellisson, French author (+ 1693)
- Koxinga, Chinese military leader (+ 1662)
Deaths
- December 5 - Gaspard Bauhin, botanist
- December 26 - Simon Marius, German astronomer
- Francesco Andreini, Italian actor
- Gaspard Bauhin, botanist
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