The Synod of Dort ( 1618 – 19 ) was called by the States General to consider the Five Articles of Remonstrance.

* Albert Frederick ( 1553 – 1618 )

* 1618 – Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist ( d. 1663 )

Albert Frederick (, ; 7 May 1553 Königsberg – 28 August 1618 Fischhausen ) was duke of Prussia from 1568 until his death.

* 1618 – Giulio Caccini, Italian composer ( b. 1551 )

The two parts of the Holy Roman Empire clashed in the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 1648 ), which was ruinous to the twenty million civilians.

When Bohemians rebelled against the Emperor, the immediate result was the series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 48 ), which devastated the Empire.

In his reign ( 1598 – 1621 ) a ten year truce with the Dutch was overshadowed in 1618 by Spain's involvement in the European-wide Thirty Years ' War.

* 1568 – 1618: Albert II Frederick co-inheritor ( son of )

** 1608 – 1618: John I / III Sigismund ( Regent, also Elector of Brandenburg )

* 1618 – 1619: John I / III Sigismund ( Regent, also Elector of Brandenburg )

During the Polish – Muscovite War ( 1605 – 1618 ), Polish – Lithuanian forces reached Moscow and installed the impostor False Dmitriy I in 1605, then supported False Dmitry II in 1607.

* 1618 – Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English politician ( b. 1577 )

* 1577 – Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr ( d. 1618 )

# Anna Maria ( 3 February 1567 – 4 November 1618 ), married in 1581 to Duke Barnim X of Pomerania

On 30 October 1594, John Sigismund married Anna of Prussia, daughter of Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia ( 1553 – 1618 ).

James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn PC ( 12 August 1575 – 23 March 1618 ).

After he died in 1624, his son Anton took over the family business ; Anton oversaw a gunsmithing operation during the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 48 ), which was the first instance of the family's long association with arms manufacturing.

During the second half of the 16th century, German tablature and German repertoire were gradually replaced by Italian and French tablature and international repertoire, respectively, and the Thirty Years War ( 1618 – 48 ) effectively stopped publications for half a century.

* 1618 – The Second Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years ' War.

Mercantilism became prominent in Central Europe and Scandinavia after the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 1648 ), with Christina of Sweden, Jacob Kettler of Courland, Christian IV of Denmark being notable proponents.

* 1585 – Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer ( d. 1618 )

* 1618 – Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.

* Meursius, Johannes ( Loozduynen, 1579-Soroe, 1639 ): Orchestra, sive de saltationibus veterum, Leiden 1618

In 1618 Johannes Kepler made one of the first documented studies of tessellations when he wrote about regular and semiregular tessellation, which are coverings of a plane with regular polygons.

In 1618 – 1619 Johannes Kromayer wrote the first all-German grammar.

* Johannes de Baconthorpe or Anglicus, Quaestiones in quatuor libros Sententiarum ( Cremona, 1618 ).

Born at Hamburg in 1596, he studied at the gymnasium of Hamburg, and later at Leyden University, where he was closely acquainted with some of the most famous scholars of the age, including Johannes Meursius, Daniel Heinsius and Philip Cluverius, whom in 1618 he accompanied on his travels in Italy and Sicily, thus giving him a taste for the study of geography.

Hans ( Johannes ) Stuart ( d. 1618 ) obtained a letter of descent in Edinburgh in 1579 and a letter of arms at Holyrood Castle in Edinburgh from King James VI of Scotland in 1585.

They called it St. Andrews Island, though the English Crown had previously granted the island to two separate companies in 1588 and 1618.

With respect to the Calvinist Reformed churches, they were firmly rejected by the Synod of Dort ( 1618 – 1619 ), and Arminian pastors were expelled from the Netherlands.

The first report of his discovery of an open channel south of Tierra del Fuego was written after the 1618 publication of the voyage of Willem Schouten and Jacob le Maire around Cape Horn in 1616.

With the establishment of new trade routes following the discovery of the New World ( 16th century ) and the outbreak and consequences of the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 48 ), the city began to decline gradually.

He discovered, on 15 May 1618, the distance-cubed-over-time-squared — or ' third ' — law of planetary motion.

When the title of Earl of Warwick was created for the third time in 1618, the Greville family were still in possession of Warwick Castle.

A second edition appeared in his lifetime in 1603, a third with additions by Anthony Munday in 1618, a fourth by Munday and Dyson in 1633, a fifth with interpolated amendments by John Strype in 1720, and a sixth by the same editor in 1754.

One grandson, Richard Rich, was the first husband of Catherine Knyvet and another grandson Robert, third lord, was created Earl of Warwick in 1618.

The third ( Termini Musicali, 1618 ), also in German, regarded the genres of composition and the technical essentials for professional musicians.

The title of Lord Ros or Roos had been carried by Elizabeth Cecil, 16th Baroness de Ros, a daughter of the third Earl of Rutland, into the Cecil family, but Rutland claimed it on the death of William Cecil, 17th Baron de Ros in 1618.

The third community, Beth Israel, was established in 1618.

After studying law at the Middle Temple, Nicholas became secretary to Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouche, warden, and admiral of the Cinque Ports, in 1618.

In 1618 he was made one of the commissioners for the border, and performed great services in upholding the law and suppressing marauders.