* 1616 – Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.

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.

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.

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.

Setting sail in January 1616 in the company of several other VOC ships, Hartog and the Eendracht became separated from the others in a storm, and arrived independently at the Cape of Good Hope ( later to become the site of Cape Town, South Africa ).

On 25 October 1616, at approximately 26 ° latitude south, Hartog and crew came unexpectedly upon " various islands, which were, however, found uninhabited.

The island was discovered on 25 October 1616 by Hartog in the Dutch East India Company (< abbr title =" Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie ( Dutch )-" United East India Company ""> VOC </ abbr >) ship Eendracht from Cape Town to Batavia ( Jakarta ).

Sir Walter Raleigh devoted several lengthy chapters of his History of the World ( written c. 1616 ) to his argument that the " Mountains of Ararat " were anciently understood as including not only those of Armenia, but all the taller mountain ranges extending into Asia far to the east, and that Noah's Ark must have landed somewhere in the Orient, since Armenia is not actually east of Shinar.

Scholars point to a poem written circa 1620 by a student at Oxford, William Basse, that mentioned the author Shakespeare died in 1616, which is the year Shakespeare deceased and not Edward de Vere.

Graduation registry for Descartes at the Prytanee | Collège Royal Henry-Le-Grand, La Flèche, 1616

After graduation in December 1616, he studied at the University of Poitiers, earning a Baccalauréat and Licence in law, in accordance with his father's wishes that he should become a lawyer.

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 ".

Between April 21 to 23, 1616 they moored at the Northern Tongan islands " Cocos Island " ( Tafahi ) and " Traitors Island " ( Niuatoputapu ), respectively.

On April 24, 1616 they tried to moor at the " Island of Good Hope " ( Niuafo ' ou ), but a less welcoming reception there made them decide to sail on.

* At the behest of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Dr. Richard Vines, a physician, passes the winter of 1616 — 17 at Biddeford, Maine, at the mouth of the Saco River, that he calls Winter Harbor.

Indeed, at the time of these charges, the artist had no wife to mistreat as Anneke had died during labor earlier in 1616.

He became Professor of Theological Controversies at Trinity College and a Bachelor of Divinity in 1607, Doctor of Divinity in 1612, and then Vice-Chancellor in 1615 and vice-provost in 1616.

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

In 1616, Maurits and Constantijn started studies at Leiden University.

The first French name for the island was " l ' ille de Vilmenon ", noted by Samuel de Champlain in a 1616 map, and derived from the sieur de Vilmenon, a patron of the founders of Quebec at the court of Louis XIII.

In 1616 Marie's rule was strengthened by the addition to her councils of Armand Jean du Plessis ( later Cardinal Richelieu ), who had come to prominence at the meetings of the Estates General.

In 1616 the Earl married Isabel Cope, an English noblewoman, and they had at least six children together:

He became a singer at St Mark's Basilica in Venice in 1616, second organist in 1639, first organist in 1665, and in 1668 maestro di cappella.

He had already been created Lord Boyle, Baron of Youghal, in the County of Cork, in 1616, and was made Viscount of Dungarvan, in the County of Waterford, at the same time he was given the earldom.

Viscount Montgomery's harbour ( 1626 ; improved 1640 ), superseding what had hitherto been probably only a small jetty, was built and maintained as a result of the Royal Warrant of 1616 which limited travel between the Ards and the Rhins of Galloway to this port, and that at Portpatrick also owned by Montgomery.

On 25 April 1616 the courts, at Coke's bidding, held that this action was illegal, writing to the King that " in case any letters come unto us contrary to law, we do nothing by such letters, but certify your Majesty thereof, and go forth to do the law notwithstanding the same ".

In 1616, Nurhaci broke away from the power of the decaying Ming Dynasty and established the Later Jin Dynasty ( Manchu :, Möllendorff: amaga aisin gurun ), domestically called the State of Manchu ( Manchu :, Möllendorff: manju gurun ), and unified Manchu tribes, establishing ( or at least expanding ) the Manchu Banner system, a military structure which made their forces quite resilient in the face of superior Ming Dynasty numbers in the field.

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 manor of Itterby was purchased in 1616 by the trustees of Peter Blundell's charity for the benefit of scholars and fellows at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge from Blundell's School, Tiverton.

In 1616, on the orders of Paul V, Bellarmine summoned Galileo, notified him of a forthcoming decree of the Congregation of the Index condemning the Copernican doctrine of the mobility of the Earth and the immobility of the Sun, and ordered him to abandon it .< ref > Blackwell ( 1991, p. 126 ).

His scholarly works include his Annotations — on Genesis ( 1616 ); Exodus ( 1617 ); Leviticus ( 1618 ); Numbers ( 1619 ); Deuteronomy ( 1619 ); Psalms ( including a metrical version, 1612 ); and the Song of Solomon ( 1623 ).

Galileo proposed this method to the Spanish crown ( 1616 – 1617 ) but it proved to be impractical, because of the inaccuracies of Galileo's timetables and the difficulty of observing the eclipses on a ship.

Believed to be born on April 23 ( d. 1616 )

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.

Historians have erroneously reported that he mistreated his first wife, Anneke Hermansz ( Annetje Harmensdochter Abeel ), based on records that a Frans Hals was charged with spousal abuse in Haarlem in 1616.

A now-famous depiction of a parachute that he dubbed Homo Volans ( Flying Man ) appeared in his book on mechanics, Machinae Novae ( 1615 or 1616 ), alongside a number of other devices and technical concepts.

For their ideas on derivatives, both Newton and Leibniz built on significant earlier work by mathematicians such as Isaac Barrow ( 1630 – 1677 ), René Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ), Christiaan Huygens ( 1629 – 1695 ), Blaise Pascal ( 1623 – 1662 ) and John Wallis ( 1616 – 1703 ).

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

Paul met with Galileo Galilei in 1616 after Cardinal Bellarmine had, on his orders, warned Galileo not to hold or defend the heliocentric ideas of Copernicus.

James Montague, the Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1608 – 1616, paid £ 1, 000 for a new nave roof of timber lath construction ; according to the inscription on his tomb, this was prompted after seeking shelter in the roofless nave during a thunderstorm.

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.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, George Abbot, conducted the consecration on Sunday 1 September 1616.

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.

The current Blickling Hall was built on the ruins of the old Boleyn property in the reign of James I, by Sir Henry Hobart, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and 1st Baronet, who bought Blickling from Robert Clere in 1616.

Coke then successively restricted the definition of treason and declared a royal letter illegal, leading to his dismissal from the bench on 14 November 1616.

The building on Dulwich Green of a chapel, a schoolhouse and twelve almshouses, began in 1613 and was completed in the autumn of 1616.

In 1612, Edward Denny gave him the curacy of Waltham-Holy-Cross, Essex, and, in the same year, he received the degree of D. D .. Later he received the prebend of Willenhall in the collegiate church of Wolverhampton, and, in 1616, he accompanied James Hay, Lord Doncaster to France, where he was sent to congratulate Louis XIII on his marriage, but Hall was compelled by illness to return.

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