1618

1618 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1618; MDCXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2371
Armenian calendar	1067; ԹՎ ՌԿԷ
Assyrian calendar	6368
Balinese saka calendar	1539–1540
Bengali calendar	1025
Berber calendar	2568
English Regnal year	15 Ja. 1 – 16 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar	2162
Burmese calendar	980
Byzantine calendar	7126–7127
Chinese calendar	丁巳年 (Fire Snake); 4315 or 4108; — to —; 戊午年 (Earth Horse); 4316 or 4109
Coptic calendar	1334–1335
Discordian calendar	2784
Ethiopian calendar	1610–1611
Hebrew calendar	5378–5379
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1674–1675
- Shaka Samvat	1539–1540
- Kali Yuga	4718–4719
Holocene calendar	11618
Igbo calendar	618–619
Iranian calendar	996–997
Islamic calendar	1027–1028
Japanese calendar	Genna 4; (元和４年)
Javanese calendar	1538–1539
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3951
Minguo calendar	294 before ROC; 民前294年
Nanakshahi calendar	150
Thai solar calendar	2160–2161
Tibetan calendar	阴火蛇年; (female Fire-Snake); 1744 or 1363 or 591; — to —; 阳土马年; (male Earth-Horse); 1745 or 1364 or 592

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century; 17th century ; 18th century;
Decades:	1590s; 1600s; 1610s ; 1620s; 1630s;
Years:	1615; 1616; 1617; 1618 ; 1619; 1620; 1621;

1618 (MDCXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1618th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 618th year of the 2nd millennium, the 18th year of the 17th century, and the 9th year of the 1610s decade. As of the start of 1618, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

January 6
- Jahangir, ruler of the Mughal Empire in northern India, gives an audience for the first time to a representative of the British East India Company, receiving Sir Thomas Roe at the capital at Ahmedabad.
- Ben Jonson's play Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue is given its premiere performance, presented at the Palace of Whitehall in London.
January 28 – Rules are established for the Ōoku, the section of Edo Castle that housed the Shōgun's consort and his concubines.
February 18 – Jeong In-hong becomes the new Chief State Councillor (the Yeonguijeong, similar to a Prime Minister) of the Joseon Kingdom in what is now North Korea, after being appointed by the Emperor Gwanghaegun.
February 26 – Osman II deposes his uncle Mustafa I as Ottoman sultan (until 1622).
March 8 – Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion (after some initial calculations, he soon rejects the idea, but on May 15 confirms the discovery).^[1]

April 21 – Spanish-born Jesuit missionary Pedro Páez becomes (probably) the first European to see and describe the source of the Blue Nile in Ethiopia.^[2]
May 23 – The Second Defenestration of Prague – Protestant noblemen hold a mock trial, and throw two direct representatives of Ferdinand II of Germany (Imperial Governors) and their scribe out of a window into a pile of manure, exacerbating a low-key rebellion into the Bohemian Revolt (1618–1621), precipitating the Thirty Years' War into armed conflict, and further polarizing Europe on religious grounds.
June 14 – Joris Veseler prints the first Dutch newspaper Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c. in Amsterdam (approximate date).

July 1 – Ferdinand II, a proponent of the Counter-Reformation, is crowned as King of Hungary at a meeting of the Bohemian diet at Pressburg.
July 3 – Alonso Fajardo de Entenza becomes the new Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines.
July 20 – Pluto reaches its second most recent aphelion, according to sophisticated mathematical calculations. The next one occurs in 1866, and the following one will occur in 2113.
July 31 – Lenaert Jacobszoon and the crew of the Dutch East India Company ship Mauritius become the first Europeans to sight what is now the Australian state of Western Australia, landing at the North Cape.
August 29 – Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and Hugo Grotius are imprisoned by Maurice, Prince of Orange.
September 4 – Rodi avalanche: A rock- or snowslide buries the Alpine town of Piuro, claiming 2,427 victims.^[3]^[4]
September 18 – Beginning of the 13th Baktun, in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar (12.0.0.0.0).
September 19 – The Siege of Pilsen begins as the first major battle of the Thirty Years' War, as Bohemian Protestants lay siege to the Bohemian Catholic city and lasts for more than two months.
September 28 – The Battle of Orynin takes place. Polish and Lithuanian Army forces fail to stop an invasion by Crimean Tatars, who then proceed in burning villages in Lithuania and enslaving residents.

October 9 – Residents of Mogilev revolt against Uniate bishop Josaphat Kuntsevych.
October 29 – English adventurer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded at the Palace of Westminster, for allegedly conspiring treasonably against James I of England in 1603, following pressure from the Spanish government, over his attack on their settlement on the Orinoco, on his last (1617–18) voyage.
November 13 – The Synod of Dort has its first meeting.
November 21 – Pilsen falls to Bohemian Protestants led by Ernst von Mansfeld after more than two months of deprivation of food.
December 11 – Russia and Poland sign the Truce of Deulino.

The margraves of Brandenburg are granted Polish approval to inherit the Duchy of Prussia, creating the state of Brandenburg-Prussia.
The 3,000 seat Teatro Farnese, the first permanent proscenium theatre, is built into the Great Hall of the Palazzo della Pilotta in Parma, Italy.
The Ming Chinese embassy of the Wanli Emperor presents tea to the Russian tsar.