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Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades: 1570s 1580s 1590s 1600s 1610s - 1620s - 1630s - 1640s 1650s 1660s 1670s
Years: 1618 1619 1620 1621 1622 - 1623 - 1624 1625 1626 1627 1628
Events
- August 6 - Pope Urban VIII is elected to the Papacy.
- Mustafa I becomes Ottoman Emperor succeeding Osman II, but is then succeeded by Murat IV.
- The Safavids recapture Baghdad.
- England first colonizes Saint Kitts and Nevis.
- Wilhelm Schickard[?] invents his "Calculating Clock", and early mechanical calculator.
- Procopius's long-lost Secret History is rediscovered in the Vatican Library[?].
- Giambattista Marini publishes his long poem Adone.
- Tommaso Campanella publishes The City of the Sun.
- Johannes Rudbeck[?] founds Rudbeckianska Gymnasiet[?], first gymnasium in Sweden.
- The Avedis Zildjian Company begins making cymbals at Constantinople.
- Second Thanksgiving celebrated at Plymouth Plantation[?].
- Erotomania is first mentioned in a psychiatric treatise.
Births
- June 19 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher
- August 5 - Marc Antonio Cesti, composer (+ 1669)
- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (+ 1673)
- Empress Meisho of Japan
Deaths
- July 4 - William Byrd, composer
- July 18 - Pope Gregory XV
- Andrea Andreani, Italian engraver
- William Camden, historian
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A smile that glow'd
Milton, P. L. b. viii. 619
--facies pulcherrima tune est
Quid color hic roseus sibi vult? designat amorem:
Ignus habere solet.
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territory.
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I am no longer the spouse of the church, and therefore no longer
the Marchese Marcello Malaspina, one of the poet's protectors
from the spirit though still anxious to learn more."
Can Grande della Scala. See Hell, Canto I. 98.
v. 25. Fabricius.] Compare Petrarch, Tr. della Fama, c. 1.
Un Curio ed un Fabricio, &c.
v. 30. Nicholas.] The story of Nicholas is, that an angel
impoverished as to resolve on exposing the chastity of his three
bags of money, containing a sufficient portion for each of them.
v. 46. Had Ghent and Douay, Lille and Bruges power.] These
to imitate the approaching defeat of the French army by the
v. 51. The slaughter's trade.] This reflection on the birth of
his dominions Hugh Capet, who came to the throne of France in
Eudes, King of France in 888.
v. 52. All save one.] The posterity of Charlemagne, the.
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