What is 1624?
{{Year nav|1624}} {{Year in various calendars|1624}} '''1624''' ([[Roman numerals|MDCXXIV]]) was a [[leap year starting on Monday]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]] and a [[leap year starting on Thursday]] in the [[Julian calendar]]. The Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar. The Julian calendar remained in localized use until 1923. == 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 [[Walloons|Walloon]] families settle in the [[New Netherland]] colony. * [[Oslo]] is destroyed by fire. When rebuilt by [[Christian IV of Denmark|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 [[Black Death|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 [[gas]]es * [[Cardinal Richelieu]] appointed by Louis XIII to be his advisor * [[Henry Briggs (mathematician)|Henry Briggs]] publishes ''Arithmetica Logarithmica'' [[Category:1624| ]]