Bosschaert later worked in Amsterdam ( 1614 ), Bergen op Zoom ( 1615 – 1616 ), Utrecht ( 1616 – 1619 ), and Breda ( 1619 ).

Conrad von Gesner ( 1516 – 1565 ) and Nicholas Culpeper ( 1616 – 1654 ) also published herbals covering the medicinal uses of plants.

Yonten Gyatso ( 1589 – 1616 ), the 4th Dalai Lama, and a non-Tibetan, was the grandson of Altan Khan.

* 1574 – Maria Anna of Bavaria, consort of Ferdinand II ( d. 1616 )

* 1680 – Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian ( b. 1616 )

The famous fugue composer Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ) shaped his own works after those of Johann Jakob Froberger ( 1616 – 1667 ), Johann Pachelbel ( 1653 – 1706 ), Girolamo Frescobaldi ( 1583 – 1643 ), Dieterich Buxtehude ( c. 1637 – 1707 ), and other composers.

* 1616 – Kaspar Förster, German singer and composer ( d. 1673 )

Outside the East Indies, the Dutch East India Company colonies or outposts were also established in Persia ( now Iran ), Bengal ( now Bangladesh and part of India ), Mauritius ( 1638-1658 / 1664-1710 ), Siam ( now Thailand ), Guangzhou ( Canton, China ), Taiwan ( 1624 – 1662 ), and southern India ( 1616 – 1795 ).

* 1616 – Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun ( b. 1543 )

* 1616 – Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.

* 1587 – Johannes Fabricius, German astronomer ( d. 1616 )

* 1616 – François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier ( d. 1669 )

* 1654 – Nicholas Culpeper, English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer ( b. 1616 )

* 1616 – Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic ( d. 1680 )

# Magdalena ( 7 January 1582 – 4 May 1616 ), married in 1598 to Landgrave Louis V of Hesse-Darmstadt

* 1616 – Johann Jakob Froberger, German composer ( d. 1667 )

With the exception of a few ships from Dunkirk, which came to the island in 1617 and were either driven away or forced to give a third of their catch to the Dutch, only the Dutch and merchants from Hull sent up ships to Jan Mayen from 1616 onward.

The first time the Tongan people encountered Europeans was in 1616 when the Dutch vessel Eendracht made a short visit to the islands to trade.

The very existence of Tierra del Fuego as one or more islands and not as part of Terra Australis was first inferred by Francisco de Hoces in 1525, then by Francis Drake in 1578 and in 1616 by a Dutch VOC expedition who named Cape Horn.

The first European to visit Western Australia was the Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog, who visited the Western Australian coast in 1616.

The first European to visit Western Australia was a Dutch explorer, Dirk Hartog who on 25 October 1616 landed at what is now known as Cape Inscription, Dirk Hartog Island.

* Isaac Beeckman ( 1588 – 1637 ), Dutch intellectual and friend of René Decartes, has his own candle factory in Zierikzee, Netherlands, until 1616, when he returns to Middelburg to study medicine.

** Jacob Le Maire, Dutch mariner ( d. 1616 )

* Ferdinand Bol ( 1616 – 1680 ), Dutch Golden Age painter

In 1616, the Dutch, attracted by the legend of El Dorado, founded a fort in Guyana and established three colonies: Demerara, Berbice, and Essequibo.

The Dutch West Indian Company built a fort in 1616 on the Essequibo River.

In 1616 the Dutch established the first European settlement in the area of Guyana, a trading post twenty-five kilometers upstream from the mouth of the Essequibo River.

Blommaert was investigated in Amsterdam by the board of the East-India Company on January 30, 1616 about a vessel, named Mauritius de Nassau, sailed from a Dutch port, under the command of Jan Remmetszoon, of Purmerend.

Dutch settlements here were established as early as 1616.

Jacob Le Maire ( c. 1585, Antwerp or Amsterdam-December 22, 1616, at sea ) was a Dutch mariner who circumnavigated the earth in 1615-16.

The first European to visit the islands was the Dutch navigator Willem Schouten in 1616.

In 1616 he returned to Leuven, to take charge of the college of St Pulcheria, a hostel for Dutch students of theology.

The first record of a major eruption was witnessed in February 1616 by Dutch explorer Joris van Spilbergen who recorded it on his log in his circumnavigation trip around the world.

The Italian translation was used to derive the first German translation Solomon Schweigger in 1616 in Nuremberg, which in turn was used to derive the first Dutch translation in 1641.

He enjoyed a pension from the government of the United Provinces, possibly by way of compensation for a post held before Brielle was handed over to the Dutch in 1616.

The first European to visit these islands was Dutch explorer Willem Schouten in 1616.

His efforts were collected by his friend Petrus Scriverius and published as Nederduytsche poemata (‘ Dutch poems ’) in 1616.

He then gained employment with the Dutch East India Company ( VOC ) in 1616, and was appointed master of a ship ( the Eendracht, meaning " Concord " or " Unity ") in a fleet voyaging from the Netherlands to the Dutch East Indies.

The first recorded European contact was in 1616, when Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog landed on the west coast.

The first European to sight Western Australia was the Dutch explorer, Dirk Hartog, who on 26 October 1616 landed at what is now known as Cape Inscription, Dirk Hartog Island.

Below is a timeline of significant events from the 1616 landfall of Dirk Hartog until the eventual settlement of the Swan River Colony in 1829:

* On 4 February 1697, he landed at Dirk Hartog Island, Western Australia, and replaced the pewter plate left by Dirk Hartog in 1616 with a new one that bore a record of both of the Dutch sea-captain's visits.

An expedition led by Dirk Hartog happened upon the area in 1616, becoming the second group of Europeans known to have visited Australia.

In 1616, Dirk Hartog landed at Inscription Point on the north end of the island and marked his discovery with a pewter plate, inscribed with the date and nailed to a post.

The first known European to land in the region was Dirk Hartog in 1616 ; other early visitors include Willem Jansz, William Dampier, Nicolas Baudin, and Phillip King.

On 25 October 1616, Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog and crew came unexpectedly upon " various islands, which were, however, found uninhabited.

Dirk Hartog, a Dutchman, made the first authenticated landing by a European along this coastline in 1616.