Isaac and Jacob Le Maire established the Australische Compagnie ( Australian Company ) in 1615 to trade with Terra Australis, which they called " Australia ".

In 1615, Jacob le Maire and Willem Schouten's rounding of Cape Horn proved that Tierra del Fuego was a relatively small island, while in 1642 Abel Tasman's first pacific voyage proved that Australia was not part of the mythical southern continent.

On June 14, 1615, Jacob le Maire and Willem Schouten sailed from Texel in the United Provinces.

The first Europeans in the area were Jacob le Maire and Willem Schouten on December 25, 1615, who named it Country of the Lords of the State.

Abduction of Europe, Jacob Jordaens, 1615 / 16, Gemäldegalerie Berlin

In 1615 Willem Cornelisz Schouten and Jacob le Maire sailed from Texel in the Netherlands, in command of an expedition sponsored by Isaac Le Maire and his Australische Compagnie in equal shares with Schouten.

* Eendracht ( 1615 ship from Hoorn ), ship with which Willem Schouten and Jacob Le Maire circumnavigated the world.

Pontus De la Gardie's second son, Jacob De la Gardie, was given the title count of Läckö in 1615 and his son Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie became favourite of Queen Kristina and married her cousin, Countess Palatine Maria Eufrosyne of Zweibrücken ( sister to Charles X Gustav of Sweden ).

* Nicasius le Febure, French chemist ( born c. 1615 )

Consequently, in 1615 Isaac Le Maire and Samuel Blommaert, assisted by others, focused on finding a south-westerly route around the Tierra del Fuego, in order to circumvent the monopoly of the VOC.

Indeed, when Schouten and Le Maire discovered the southern extremity of Tierra del Fuego and named it Cape Horn in 1615, they proved that the Tierra del Fuego archipelago was of small extent and not connected to the southern land.

James had repairs carried out in 1584, and in 1615 – 1616 more extensive repairs were carried out in preparation for his return visit to Scotland.

In 1615 he planned and carried into practice a new method of finding the radius of the earth, by determining the distance of one point on its surface from the parallel of latitude of another, by means of triangulation.

In 1615, the Ieremia Movilă's widow and dukes Michał Wiśniowiecki and Samuel Korecki organized a third intervention, this time carried against king Sigismund's wishes.

A minor revision of the score was carried out in 2003, followed four years later by a substantial revision which saw the composition expanded to four movements: I " Prologue " ( being the original " Lament " of the 1960 version ); II " Variations on J. S. Bach's Chorale Harmonisation of " Valet will ich dir geben " by Melchior Teschner ( c. 1615 ); III " Scherzo and trio " ( substantially as in the original version ) and, IV " Epilogue " ( a re-working of the material from the first movement ).

Almost two years later, in September 1615, and as James was in the process of replacing Carr with new favourite George Villiers, the Governor of the Tower sent a letter to the King, informing him that one of the warders had been bringing the prisoner " poisoned food and medicine.

On the other hand, in a minor variation, Sir Francis Bacon wrote the phrase " separa et impera " in a letter to James I of 15 February 1615.

By 1615, with the controversy over the Earth's motion widespread and increasingly dangerous, Galileo revised this letter and greatly expanded it ; this became the Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina.

* Galileo's letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of 1615

Examples of royal correspondences still in the good condition is the letter between Sultan Abu Hayat of Ternate and King John III of Portugal ( 1521 ) ; the letter from Sultan Iskandar Muda of Aceh to King James I of England ( 1615 ); the letter from Sultan Abdul Jalil IV of Johor to King Louis XV of France ( 1719 ).

Published in two volumes a decade apart, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon.

Only two ships, one from the Noordsche Compagnie, and the other from the Delft merchants, were off Jan Mayen in 1615.

* 1615 – First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.

Jayawikarta is thought to have made trading connections with the English merchants, rivals of the Dutch, by allowing them to build houses directly across from the Dutch buildings in 1615.

Most notable is the inclusion of two songs from Thomas Middleton's play The Witch ( 1615 ); Middleton is conjectured to have inserted an extra scene involving the witches and Hecate, for these scenes had proven highly popular with audiences.

In 1615, the shipwreck and death of governor Pieter Both, who was coming back from India with four richly laden ships in the bay, caused the route to be considered as cursed by Dutch sailors, and they tried to avoid it as much as possible.

Pope Innocent XII ( 13 March 1615 – 27 September 1700 ), born Antonio Pignatelli del Rastrello, was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1691 to 1700.

With the support of the British fleet, in 1622 ' Abbās took the island of Hormuz from the Portuguese ; much of the trade was diverted to the town of Bandar ' Abbās, which he had taken from the Portuguese in 1615 and had named after himself.

* Vernon A. Ives ( editor ), The Rich Papers: Letters from Bermuda 1615 – 1646 ( Bermuda National Trust, Hamilton, 1984 )

Two years later, his son Johannes Fabricius ( 1587 – 1615 ) returned from university in the Netherlands with telescopes that they turned on the Sun.

Gervase Markham's 1615 recipe recommends taking " a leg of mutton ", and cutting " the best of the flesh from the bone ", before adding mutton suet, pepper, salt, cloves, mace, currants, raisins, prunes, dates and orange peel.

Painting of Emanuele Ne Vunda, ambassador from Alvaro II to Pope Paul V in 1604 – 1608, Sala dei Corazzieri, Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome, 1615 – 1616.

Title page of Richard II, from the fifth quarto, published in 1615.

He was Lord Chamberlain of the royal household from 1615 to 1625 and Lord Steward from 1626 to 1630.

Another English Benedictine community, the Priory of St. Edmund, which had been formed in Paris in 1615 by Dom Gabriel Gifford, later Archbishop of Rheims and primate of France, was expelled from Paris during the Revolution, and eventually took over the vacant buildings of the community of St Gregory's in 1818.

The present decorations date from between 1578 and 1615, after the 1577 fire.

Henry's father Robert Morgan ( born c. 1615 ) was a descendant from a cadet branch of the ‘ Tredegar Morgans ’ and had two brothers, Thomas and Edward.

* The Broederpoort: a rectangular city gate with four slender towers, originally from 1465, rebuilt in Renaissance style in 1615

The ruling was imposed by troops from Zutphen, taking over the castle and city of Lichtenvoorde in December 1615, and the castle and city of Borculo in February 1616 after short combat.

Today, Groenlo is known primarily for its beer brewery Grolsch ( literal meaning: " from Grol "), which was in business since 1615, but has been closed in 2004 when it moved to Boekelo.

Detail of Papendrecht from 1615.