1624

1624 was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday in the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1590s  1600s  1610s  – 1620s –  1630s  1640s  1650s
Years:	1621 1622 1623 – 1624 – 1625 1626 1627

Events

• January 24 – Alfonso Mendez, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa.
• The Netherlands establish a trading colony at Kaohsiung on Taiwan.
• Thirty Walloon families settle in the New Netherland colony.
• Oslo is destroyed by fire. When rebuilt by Christian IV, it would be renamed Christiania.
• Claudio Monteverdi publishes Tancredi e Clorinda.
• Jean Louis Guez de Balzac publishes his Lettres.
• Bernardo de Balbuena publishes El Bernardo.
• Santa Rosalia makes a miraculous appearance during a plague in Palermo.
• Kalmia latifolia (mountain laurel) first recorded in America.
• Jakob Bartsch records the constellation Camelopardalis.
• Dr Challoner's Grammar School is founded.
• The Palace of Versailles is first built, as a hunting lodge.
• Chateau Cheverny begins construction.
• Pembroke College, Oxford founded.
• The Japanese Shogun expels Spanish from the land and severs trade with the Philippines
• Mail service begins in Denmark
• University founded in Bolivia
• War between England and Spain
• Cornelius Drebbel discover gases
• Cardinal Richelieu appointed by Louis XIII to be his advisor
• Henry Briggs publishes Arithmetica Logarithmica