What is 1618?
{{Year nav|1618}} {{Year in various calendars|1618}} {{Year article header|1618}} == Events == * [[March 8]] – [[Johannes Kepler]] discovers the [[Kepler's laws of planetary motion|third law of planetary motion]] (he soon rejects the idea after some initial calculations were made but on [[May 15]] confirms the discovery). * [[May 23]] – The [[Defenestrations of Prague|Second Defenestration of Prague]] – Protestant noblemen throw three representatives of [[Ferdinand II]] out of a window. The event began the [[Thirty Years' War]]. * [[July 20]] – [[Pluto]] reached, according to sophisticated [[mathematics|mathematical calculations]], its second most recent [[aphelion]]. The next one occurred in [[1866]], and the following one will occur in ''2113''. * [[August 29]] – [[Johan van Oldenbarnevelt]] and [[Hugo Grotius]] are imprisoned by [[Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange]] * [[October 29]] – [[English people|English]] adventurer, writer, and [[courtier]] Sir [[Walter Raleigh]] is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against [[James I of England]]. * The margraves of [[Brandenburg]] is granted [[Poland|Polish]] approval to inherit [[Ducal Prussia]]. * [[November 13]], the [[Synod of Dordrecht]] has its first meeting. * Change of [[Ottoman Emperor|emperor]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]] from [[Mustafa I]] ([[1617]]-[[1623]]) to [[Osman II]] (1618-[[1622]]). * The 3000 seat Teatro Farnese, the first permanent proscenium theatre, was built into the Great Hall of the Palazzo della Pilotta in Parma, Italy in 1618. [[Category:1618| ]]