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Year 1611 (MDCXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1611

KJV Bible

sunspots seen.

April

• April 28 - The Colegio de Nuestra Señora del Santísimo Rosario is established in Manila, the Philippines (later renamed Colegio de Santo Tomas, now known as the University of Santo Tomas).

July - December

• August 2 - Jamestown: Deputy Governor Sir Thomas Gates returns to Virginia with 280 people, provisions and cattle on 6 ships and assumes control, ruling that the fort must be strengthened.
• September - Jamestown: Thomas Dale, with 350 men, starts building Henricus.
• October 30 - Gustavus Adolphus succeeds his father Charles IX as king of Sweden.
• November 1 - At Whitehall Palace in London, William Shakespeare's romantic comedy The Tempest is performed for the first time.

Undated

• The complete King James Version of the Bible is first published in England.
• Johannes and David Fabricius discover sunspots.
• Emperor Go-Mizunoo succeeds Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan.
• Jamestown: John Rolfe imports tobacco seeds from the island of Trinidad (Nicotiana tabacum); the native tobacco is Nicotiana rustica.
• Thomas Dale founds the city of Henricus on the James River, a few miles south of present day Richmond, Virginia.
• Denmark attacks Sweden.
• George Abbot becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.
• Construction begins on Naghsh-i Jahan Square in Isfahan, Persia.

Births

• January 28 - Johannes Hevelius, astronomer (d. 1687)
• May 16 - Pope Innocent XI (d. 1689)
• July 16 - Archduchess Cecilia Renata of Austria, Queen of Poland (d. 1644)
• September 1 - William Cartwright (d. 1643)
• September 8 - Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (d. 1671)
• September 11 - Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, Marshal of France (d. 1675)
• November 1 - François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (d. 1656)
• date unknown
  • Karl Eusebius of Liechtenstein, second Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1684)
  • Diego Quispe Tito, Peruvian painter (d. 1681)
• probable
  • D'Artagnan, musketeer (d. 1673)

Deaths

• February 12 - Jodocus Hondius, cartographer (b. 1563)
• February 26 - Antonio Possevino, papal legate to Russia
• March 5 - Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1533)
• June 8 - Jean Bertaut, French poet (b. 1552)
• July 26 - Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542)
• August 2 - Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1562)
• August 20 - Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer (b. 1548?)
• October 3 - Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (b. 1554)
• October 30 - King Charles IX of Sweden (b. 1550)
• date unknown - Camillo Mariani, sculptor (b. 1565)
• date unknown - Henry Hudson, explorer (b. 1560)

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