1613

Events

• January - Galileo observes Neptune, but mistakes it for a star and so is not credited with its discovery.
• February 7 - An Assembly of the Russian Empire elects Mikhail Romanov to be Tsar of Russia, and establishes the Romanov Dynasty.
• June 29 - Fire destroys London's Globe Theatre
• Francesco Andreini's L'Adamo is published.
• King James I of Scotland successfully mediates the Peace of Knäred treaty between Denmark and Sweden.
• The New River was opened, to supply London with drinking water from Hertfordshire
• Adriaen Block's ship Tyger is destroyed by fire, forcing him and his crew to spend the winter on Manhattan
• James I of England comdemns duels in his proclamation Against Private Challenges and Combats
• Ottoman Empire invades Hungary
• Locust swarm destroys La Camarque, France
• Sultan Agung takes the throne of the kingdom of Mataram on Java.

Births

• February 2 - Noël Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
• March 12 - André Le Nôtre, French landscape gardener (d. 1700)
• April 7 - Gerhard Douw, Dutch painter (d. 1675)
• May 31 - John George II, Elector of Saxony (d. 1680)
• August 15 - Gilles Ménage, French scholar (d. 1692)
• September 15 - François de la Rochefoucauld, French writer (d. 1680)
• November 5 - Isaac de Benserade, French poet (d. 1691)
• December 23 - Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish soldier (d. 1676)
• Richard Crashaw, English poet (d. 1649)
• Claude Perrault, French architect (d. 1688)
• Henry Vane, English politician (d. 1662)

Deaths

• January 28 - Thomas Bodley, English scholar and diplomat (b. 1545)
• April 27 - Robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit missionary (b. 1532)
• September 8 - Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (b. 1566)
• September 15 - Thomas Overbury, English poet (b. 1581)
• December 6 - Anton Praetorius, German pastor (b. 1560)