1616

1616 (MDCXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1616th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 616th year of the 2nd millennium, the 16th year of the 17th century, and the 7th year of the 1610s decade. As of the start of 1616, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1580s  1590s  1600s  – 1610s –  1620s  1630s  1640s
Years:	1613 1614 1615 – 1616 – 1617 1618 1619

1616 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1616 MDCXVI
Ab urbe condita	2369
Armenian calendar	1065 ԹՎ ՌԿԵ
Assyrian calendar	6366
Balinese saka calendar	1537–1538
Bengali calendar	1023
Berber calendar	2566
English Regnal year	13 Ja. 1 – 14 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar	2160
Burmese calendar	978
Byzantine calendar	7124–7125
Chinese calendar	乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 4312 or 4252     — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 4313 or 4253
Coptic calendar	1332–1333
Discordian calendar	2782
Ethiopian calendar	1608–1609
Hebrew calendar	5376–5377
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1672–1673
- Shaka Samvat	1537–1538
- Kali Yuga	4716–4717
Holocene calendar	11616
Igbo calendar	616–617
Iranian calendar	994–995
Islamic calendar	1024–1025
Japanese calendar	Genna 2 (元和２年)
Javanese calendar	1536–1537
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3949
Minguo calendar	296 before ROC 民前296年
Nanakshahi calendar	148
Thai solar calendar	2158–2159
Tibetan calendar	阴木兔年 (female Wood-Rabbit) 1742 or 1361 or 589     — to — 阳火龙年 (male Fire-Dragon) 1743 or 1362 or 590

Events

• War between Austria and Venice.

Births

• May 25 – Carlo Dolci, Italian artist

Deaths

• April 23 – Miguel de Cervantes
• April 23 – William Shakespeare, English playwright and poet