Year by year · 17th century

1618

1618 in world history: 8 events, 6 births, 10 deaths, 1 work, 1 state founded and 1 that came to an end. 1,071 recorded states existed that year.

Events

  1. 15 May

    Johannes Kepler confirms his third law of planetary motion

    Kepler found that the square of a planet's orbital period is proportional to the cube of its distance from the Sun. Published in Harmonices Mundi, the law later underpinned Newton's theory of gravitation.

  2. 23 May

    Defenestration of Prague sparks the Thirty Years' War

    Protestant nobles threw two Catholic regents and their secretary from a window of Prague Castle; all three survived. The Bohemian revolt that followed grew into the Thirty Years' War.

    Kingdom of BohemiaThirty Years' WarPrague

  3. 29 October

    Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded at Westminster

    Courtier, poet and explorer Sir Walter Raleigh was executed in Old Palace Yard under a treason sentence from 1603. James I revived it after Raleigh's failed expedition to Guiana attacked a Spanish settlement.

  4. Treaty · Peace

    Truce of Deulino

    The Truce of Deulino was an armistice concluded in 1618 between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Muscovy, ending a period of war during Russia's Time of Troubles.

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In the profiles

Wars and longer events

Born in 1618 6

Died in 1618 10

Works 1

States founded 1

States that came to an end 1

Great speeches

Raleigh on the ScaffoldSir Walter Raleigh

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