Major Events
- Apr 5 Second parliament of King James I begins session, no bills pass and lasts only 2 months and 2 days, thus its name the Addled Parliament
- Apr 25 Amsterdam Bank of Loan forms
- Jun 7 Second parliament of King James I dissolves after passing no legislation, earning itself the name of the Addled Parliament
- Aug 22 Trades people under Vincent Fettmilch chase & plunder Jews out of ghetto in Frankfurt
- Aug 23 University of Groningen opens
- Sep 1 Vincent Fettmich expels Jews from Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany
- Oct 2 French King Louis XIII declared an adult at 13
- Oct 11 Adriaen Block and 12 Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the New Netherland colony.
- Nov 12 Treaty of Xanten: Guliks-Kleefse War victory ends
- Dec 28 Sperm whale beached at Noordwijk
Born in 1614
- Jan 1 John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester (d. 1672)
- Jan 5 Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, born in Wiener Neustadt, Austria (d. 1662)
- Jan 31 Nicolas Saboly, French composer and poet, born in Monteux, France (d. 1675)
- Feb 23 Jacob Colijns, Dutch coat of arms painter, born in Amsterdam (d. 1686)
- Apr 25 Hieronymus van Beverningk, Dutch general, born in Gouda, Netherlands (d. 1690)
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Famous Weddings in 1614
- Apr 5 American Indian princess Pocahontas and daughter of chief Powhatan marries English colonist John Rolfe
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