1614 (idea)

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.

- Sir Walter Raleigh, Preface, The History of the World

An ynche in a misse is as good as an ell.

- William Camden, Remaines of a Greater Worke Concerning Britaine, the origin of the saying, "A miss is as good as a mile."

In the year AD 1614...

• The Siege of Osaka Castle begins as Japanese hegemon Tokugawa Ieyasu decides to put an end to upstart Toyotomi Hideyori's would-be insurrection against the rule of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
• Scottish mathematician John Napier publishes his Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio, announcing to the world his discovery of logarithms.
• Dutch explorer Adriaen Block explores what is now Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New York City, naming Long Island among various other places.
• The French Estates-General meets for the last time for nearly two centuries, not meeting again until the era of the French Revolution. In between, France will be governed as an absolute monarchy.
• In the Fettmilch Uprising, all 1380 Jewish citizens of Frankfurt are forced to leave the city after grocer and gingerbread baker Vincent Fettmilch instigates an anti-semitic riot on Jews' Lane.
• Algonquian princess Pocahontas converts to Christianity, taking the name Rebecca, and marries English settler John Rolfe.
• The University of Groningen is established in the Netherlands.

These people were born in 1614:

• Icelandic poet Hallgrimur Petursson.
• English philosopher Henry More.
• Manchu prince Dodo.
• Flemish painter Bonaventura Peeters.

These people died in 1614:

• Crete-born painter, sculptor, and architect Domênikos Theotokópoulos, better known to history by his Spanish nickname El Greco ("The Greek").
• Hungarian serial killer Elizabeth Báthory.
• Italian priest Saint Camillus de Lellis, founder of the Camillian Order of Catholic Priests.
• French-born classical scholar Isaac Casaubon.
• Italian painter Lavinia Fontana.

1613 - 1614 - 1615

17th century

How They Were Made

• Walter Raleigh
• The History of the World
• inch
• miss
• ell
• William Camden
• A miss is as good as a mile
• Siege of Osaka Castle
• Tokugawa Ieyasu
• Toyotomi Hideyori
• Tokugawa Shogunate
• John Napier
• logarithm
• Rhode Island
• Connecticut
• New York City
• Long Island
• French Revolution
• absolute monarchy
• Frankfurt
• Algonquian
• Pocahontas
• Christianity
• Rebecca
• Netherlands
• Henry More
• Dodo
• Spanish
• El Greco
• Elizabeth Bathory
• Isaac Casaubon
• Lavinia Fontana
• 1613
• 1615
• 17th century
• How I made the year nodes

• Remaines of a Greater Worke Concerning Britaine
• Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio
• Adriaen Block
• Estates-General
• Fettmilch Uprising
• Vincent Fettmilch
• Jews' Lane
• John Rolfe
• University of Groningen
• Hallgrimur Petursson
• Bonaventura Peeters
• Saint Camillus de Lellis
• Camillian Order