As the eldest living son of the sovereign, Charles automatically gained several titles ( including Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Rothesay ), and subsequently was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester in November 1616.

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

His conduct of affairs having displeased the French king, he was recalled from his post by Oldenbarneveldt in 1616.

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.

The earliest such was that in Ben Jonson's creation in Christmas his Masque dating from December 1616, in which Christmas appears " attir'd in round Hose, long Stockings, a close Doublet, a high crownd Hat with a Broach, a long thin beard, a Truncheon, little Ruffes, white shoes, his Scarffes, and Garters tyed crosse ", and announces " Why Gentlemen, doe you know what you doe?

It is, indeed, not improbable that it was as a result of this war that Lord Ochiltree's Committee formed the Statutes of Iona in 1609 and the Regulations for the Chiefs in 1616 was induced to insert a clause in the Statutes of Iona by which ' marriages contracted for several years ' were prohibited ; and any who might disregard this regulation were to be ' punished as fornicators '".

Though Oxford died in 1604 before approximately 12 of the plays were written according to the generally-accepted chronology, Oxfordians say that regular publication of new, " newly augmented ", and " corrected " Shakespeare plays stopped with Oxford's death in 1604, and they interpret certain written references to Shakespeare between 1604 and 1616 to mean that the writer was dead.

Sobran notes that the cypress tree was a symbol of mourning and says that Barksted was specifically writing of Shakespeare in the past tense (" His song was worthy ") — after Oxford's death in 1604, but prior to Shakespeare's death in 1616.

The Baroque bell tower was built in 1616, the cups being finished in 1753.

In 1616, the Roman Inquisition's consultants gave their assessment of the proposition that the Sun is immobile and at the center of the universe and that the Earth moves around it, judging both to be " foolish and absurd in philosophy " and that the first was " formally heretical " while the second was " at least erroneous in faith ".

In 1616, it is known that he was appointed by George Abbot to the vicarage of Cranbrook in Kent.

In the Galileo affair, the acceptance, from 1616 to 1757, of the Greek geocentric model ( Ptolemaic system ) by the Roman Catholic Church, and its consequent opposition to heliocentrism, was first called into question by the Catholic cleric Copernicus, and subsequently disproved conclusively by Galileo, who was persecuted for his minority view.

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.

Year 1616 ( MDCXVI ) was a leap year starting on Friday ( link will display full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

( Ben Jonson received a royal pension of 100 marks in 1616, causing some historians to identify him as England's first Poet Laureate, even though John Fletcher was more popular ).

The theocratic government was founded by an expatriate Drukpa monk, Ngawang Namgyal, who arrived in Bhutan in 1616 seeking freedom from the domination of the Gelugpa subsect led by the Dalai Lama ( Ocean Lama ) in Lhasa.

It was not until 1616, the year of Shakespeare's death, that Ben Jonson defied convention by issuing a folio collection of his own plays and poems.

He was admitted an Advocate in 1587, a Lord of Session in 1592, appointed Lord Advocate in 1596, Lord Clerk Register in 1612, and in 1616 became Lord President of the Court of Session.

** Hugh O ' Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, Irish rebel ( d. 1616 )

* Hugh O ' Neill, Earl of Tyrone ( Aodh Mór Ó Néill ), c. 1550 – 1616, Irish leader during the Nine Years ' War

He ascended to the Irish Peerage as Lord Boyle, Baron of Youghal, 6 September 1616, and was created Earl of Cork and Viscount Dungarvan, 26 October 1620.

From 1616, Buckingham established a dominant influence in Irish affairs, beginning with the appointment of his client, Sir Oliver St John, as Lord Deputy, 1616 – 1622.

* Hugh O ' Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone ( c. 1540 – 1616 ), Irish chieftain who resisted the annexation of Ireland by Elizabeth I of England

Hugh O ' Neill ( Irish: Aodh Mór Ó Néill ; literally Hugh The Great O ' Neill ; c. 1550 – 20 July 1616 ), was the earl of Tyrone ( known as the Great Earl ) and was later created The Ó Néill.

( c. 1550 – 1616 ) attainted 1608, attainder confirmed by Irish Parliament 1614.

The Annals are one of the principal Irish-language sources for Irish history up to 1616.

** Volume 6 ( AD 1589 – 1616 ): edition, translation, full scan ( appendix contains the carefully done pedigrees of a small selection of the Gaelic Irish nobility, pp. 2377 ff )

The Queen's House at Greenwich, begun for Anne in 1616

In 1616 Anne commissioned Inigo Jones to design and build the surviving Queen's House as the final addition to the palace.

Oklahoma State Representative Paul D. Roan ( D-Tishomingo ), who represents the residents of Stringtown in the Oklahoma House of Representatives, authored HB 1616, which in effect repealed the statute regarding speed traps.

It stands on the site of Dean House ( built 1614 ), part of Dean Estate which had been purchased in 1609 by Sir William Nisbet, who became in 1616 Lord Provost of Edinburgh.

In 1616, work began on the Queen's House, Greenwich, for James I ’ s wife, Anne of Denmark.

* The Queen's House, Greenwich, ( 1616 – 1619 ) work suspended on the death of Anne of Denmark completed ( 1630 – 1635 ) for Henrietta Maria of France

The Queen's House, Greenwich, is a former royal residence built between 1616 – 1619 in Greenwich, then a few miles downriver from London, and now a district of the city.

Audley End House, built from 1603 to 1616, was the largest private house in England.

Inigo Jones was the designer of the Queen's House, Greenwich, begun in 1616, the first English Palladian house.

Leoni was not the first to import Palladian Architecture to England ; that accolade belongs firmly to Inigo Jones, who had designed the Palladian Queen's House at Greenwich in 1616 and the more ornate Banqueting House in Whitehall in 1619.

In the House of Commons he defended the king's right to levy impositions, and other events of his secretaryship were the inquiry into the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury and the release of Raleigh in 1616.

* Meditations of Instruction, of Exhortation, of Reprofe: indeavouring the Edification and Reparation of the House of God ( 1616 );