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1618 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

    1618
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Events

March 8 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion (he soon rejects the idea after some initial calculations were made but on May 15 confirms the discovery).

May 23 - The Second Defenestration of Prague - Protestant noblemen throw three representatives of Ferdinand II out of a window. The event precipitates the Thirty Years' War.

July 20 - Pluto reached, according to sophisticated mathematical calculations, its second most recent aphelion. The next one occurred in 1866, and the following one will occur in 2113.

August 29 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and Hugo Grotius are imprisoned by Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange

October 29 - English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.

The margraves of Brandenburg is granted Polish approval to inherit Ducal Prussia.

November 13, the Synod of Dordrecht has its first meeting.

Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mustafa I (1617-1623) to Osman II (1618-1622).

The 3000 seat Teatro Farnese, the first permanent proscenium theatre, was built into the Great Hall of the Palazzo della Pilotta in Parma, Italy in 1618.

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Births

January 1 - Bartolomé Estéban Murillo, Spanish painter (d. 1682)

April 2 - Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1663)

April 13 - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (d. 1693)

November 3 - Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1707)

November - Simon Arnauld de Pomponne, French diplomat and minister of Louis XIV (d. 1699).

Richard Lovelace, English poet (died c1657)

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Deaths

February 20 - Philip William, Prince of Orange (b. 1554)

March 23 - James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn, Scottish politician (born c 1575)

June 7 - Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English Governor of Virginia (b. 1577)

August 23 - Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (b. 1585)

September 28 - Joshua Sylvester, English poet (b. 1563)

October 29 - Sir Walter Raleigh, English courtier and settler of Virginia (executed) (b. 1554)

November 2 - Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (b. 1558)

December 6 - Jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (b. 1556)

December 10 - Giulio Caccini, Italian composer (born 1551)

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