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1613 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1613th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 613th year of the 2nd millennium, the 13th year of the 17th century, and the 4th year of the 1610s decade. As of the start of 1613, the ...
The Zemsky Sobor elected Michael Romanov, the 16-year-old son of Patriarch Filaret of Moscow, tsar of Russia on 21 February 1613, and was crowned on 21 July. According to Dunning, "It is one of the great and tragic ironies of Russian history that the founder of the Romanov dynasty quickly put an end to the Troubles in part by crushing the very ...
On 29 June 1613, the Globe Theatre went up in flames during a performance of Henry VIII. [26] A theatrical cannon, set off during the performance, misfired, igniting the wooden beams and thatching. According to one of the few surviving documents of the event, no one was hurt except a man whose burning breeches were put out with a bottle of ale ...
The concept of "British history" began to emerge in the 1600s, largely thanks to the attempts of King James II to assert that the Union of the Crowns of 1603 had created a Kingdom of Great Britain, which in fact did not come into existence until a century later.
1613–1617: Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth is invaded by the Tatars dozens of times. [4] 1613: The Dutch expel the Portuguese from their Solor fort, but won't stay for long. 1613: The Dutch East India Company makes its first forays into Timor. 1613: Sultan Iskandar Muda of Aceh captures the North Sumatran port of Aru, subjugating the ...
1613. 14 February – Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of King James I, marries Frederick V, Elector Palatine, at the Chapel Royal in Whitehall. [2]
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1600. January – In Ireland, Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, renews the Nine Years' War against England with an invasion of Munster. [1]11 February–March – Clown William Kempe ("Will Kemp") morris dances from London to Norwich.