Editing 1613 (section)

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 11]] &ndash; Workers in a sandpit in the [[Dauphiné]] region of [[France]] discover the skeleton of what is alleged to be a 30-foot tall man (the remains, it is supposed, of the giant [[Teutobochus]], a legendary Gallic king who fought the Romans).<ref>W.A. Seaver, "Giants and Dwarfs", ''Harper's New Monthly Magazine'', 39:202-210, 1869.</ref>
* [[January 20]] &ndash; King [[James I of England]] successfully mediates the [[Treaty of Knäred]] between [[Denmark]] and [[Sweden]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Franklin Daniel Scott|title=Sweden, the Nation's History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qv8zxie3A18C&pg=PA168|year=1988|publisher=SIU Press|isbn=978-0-8093-1489-8|pages=168|language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 14]] &ndash; [[Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia|Elizabeth]], daughter of King [[James I of England]], marries [[Frederick V, Elector Palatine]].<ref>{{Cite book| title=The Marriage of prince Fredericke, and the King's daughter the Lady Elizabeth... | year=1613 | publisher=Thomas Creede | location=London | page=1}}</ref>
* [[February 24]] &ndash; King Anaukpetlun of Burma blockades the [[Portugal|Portuguese]] port at Syriam with 80 warships and 3,000 men, then sets about to tunnel into the city.
* [[March 3]] (February 21 O.S.) &ndash; An assembly of the [[Tsardom of Russia|Russian Empire]] elects [[Michael of Russia|Mikhail Romanov]] [[Tsar]] of [[Russia]], ending the [[Time of Troubles]]. The [[House of Romanov]] will remain a ruling dynasty until [[1917]].
* [[March 27]] &ndash; The first English child is born in [[Canada]] at [[Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador|Cuper's Cove]], [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]] to [[Nicholas Guy]].
* [[March 29]]
**Explorer [[Samuel de Champlain]] becomes the first unofficial Governor of [[New France]] in Canada.
**Burmese soldiers, tunneling under the walls of the Portuguese colonial fortress at [[Thanlyin|Syriam]] (now Thanlyin), bring down a section of the walls and sack the city. Portuguese Governor [[Filipe de Brito e Nicote]] and rebel Burmese General [[Natshinnaung]] are captured, and executed by impalement on April 9.

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 13]] &ndash; [[Samuel Argall]] captures [[Algonquian peoples|Algonquian]] princess [[Pocahontas]] in [[Passapatanzy, Virginia]], to ransom her for some English prisoners held by her father, [[Chief Powhatan]]. She is brought to [[Henricus]] as a hostage.<ref>Rountree, Helen C. (December 8, 2010). [http://encyclopediavirginia.org/Pocahontas_d_1617 "Pocahontas (d. 1617)"]. [http://encyclopediavirginia.org/ Encyclopedia Virginia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170503103811/http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/ |date=May 3, 2017 }}. Retrieved March 4, 2011.</ref> 
* [[May 12]] &ndash; [[Michael of Russia|Mikhail Romanov]] arrives in [[Moscow]] to begin his reign as Tsar of Russia, after having been elected on March 3.
* [[May 14]] 
**The city of [[Bago, Myanmar|Hanthawaddy]] (now Bago) is restored as the capital of Burma by King Anaukpetlun, who relocates the government from [[Inwa|Ava]] (now Inwa). 
**The ruler of the principality of [[Martaban]], Binnya Dala, surrenders to the armies of King Anaukpetlun of Burma. 
* [[May 23]] &ndash; [[War of the Montferrat Succession]]: The defenders of the Italian city of [[Nizza Monferrato]] successfully resist a nine-day siege by the troops of [[Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy]].
* [[May 27]] &ndash; After getting an official proclamation that he is the French Governor of [[New France]], explorer [[Samuel de Champlain]] begins exploration of the area westward from [[Quebec]], traveling along the [[Ottawa River]]. 
* [[June 28]] (July 8 N.S.) &ndash; From [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]], [[John Rolfe]] makes the first shipment to England of [[tobacco]] grown in Virginia, dispatching it on the ship ''The Elizabeth''. <ref name=AlexBrown>Alexander Brown, ''The Genesis of the United States: A Narrative of the Movement in England, 1605-1616, which Resulted in the Plantation of North America by Englishmen'' (Houghton  Mifflin, 1897) p. 639</ref> The tobacco arrives in England after a voyage of three weeks. 
* [[June 29]] &ndash; Fire destroys [[London]]'s famed [[Globe Theatre]], during a performance of Shakespeare's ''Henry VIII''.<ref name="Read1995">{{cite book|author=Alan Read|title=Theatre and Everyday Life: An Ethics of Performance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KPxiAotwtn4C&pg=PA229|year=1995|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-06941-0|pages=229}}</ref>

=== July&ndash;September === 
* [[July 20]] (July 30 N.S.) &ndash; The first American-grown tobacco, produced in the British colony of Virginia, arrives in England after being dispatched 22 days earlier by John Rolfe.  <ref name=AlexBrown/>
* [[July 26]] &ndash; [[:es:Diego Marín de Negron|Diego Marín de Negron]], the Spanish Governor of Rio de la Plata y Paraguay, is assassinated by poisoning at his palace in [[Buenos Aires]].C. Antonio Zinny, ''History of the governors of the Argentine provinces from 1810 to the present'' (Editoriales Huemul, 1941) p.105
* [[July 28]] &ndash; Gregor Richter, the chief pastor of [[Görlitz]], denounces [[Jacob Boehme]] as a heretic, in his Sunday sermon.
* [[August 29]] &ndash; The [[Kingdom of Sicily|Sicilians]] under de Aragon defeat the trade fleet of the [[Ottoman Empire]], ending the [[Battle of Cape Corvo]].
* [[September 29]] &ndash; The [[New River (London)|New River]] is opened, to supply [[London]] with drinking water from [[Hertfordshire]].

=== October&ndash;December === 
* [[October 21]] &ndash; [[Gabriel Bathory]], ruler of the [[Principality of Transylvania (1570–1711)|Principality of Transylvania]], is removed from office by vote of the nobles meeting at [[Alba Iulia|Gyulafehérvár]] (now Alba Iulia in Romania).<ref name=nagy />{{rp|279}} Bathory refuses to vacate the palace at the Transylvanian capital at [[Oradea|Várad]], (now Oradea in Romania), and is murdered on October 27.<ref name=nagy>{{cite book |last=Nagy |first=László |year=1988 |title=Tündérkert fejedelme: Báthory Gábor ''[Prince of the Pixies' Garden: Gabriel Gáthory]'' |publisher=Zrínyi Kiadó |isbn=963-326-947-4 |pages=279–282}}</ref>
* [[October 23]] &ndash; [[Gabriel Bethlen]] is elected as the new Prince of Transylvania.<ref>"The Emergence of the Principality and its First Crises (1526–1606)", by Gábor Barta, in ''History of Transylvania'' (Akadémiai Kiadó, 1994) p.313</ref>
* [[October 28]] &ndash; [[Keichō]] embassy: [[Hasekura Tsunenaga]] departs Japan in the ''[[San Juan Bautista (ship)|Date Maru]]'' with a Japanese diplomatic mission to the [[Holy See]], scheduled to first travel to [[Acapulco]] in [[New Spain]], with a goal of concluding an agreement between [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] and the [[East India Company]], permitting English merchants to live and trade in Japan.
* [[November 3]] &ndash; English royal favourite [[Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset|Robert Carr]] is created 1st [[Earl of Somerset]].
* [[November 30]] &ndash; King Anaukpetlun of Burma sends an army of 4,000 troops to drive the Siamese occupiers from the Tenasserim coast.
* [[December 26]] &ndash;
**The ''Date Maru'', carrying the Japanese diplomatic mission commanded [[Hasekura Tsunenaga]], reaches North America, sighting [[Cape Mendocino]] on the California coast.<ref>"A Quarter Century of Trans-Pacific Diplomacy: New Spain and Japan, 1592–1617", by W. Michael Mathes, ''Journal of Asian History'' (1990) pp.1–29</ref> 
**[[Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset|The Earl of Somerset]] marries [[Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset|Frances Howard]], following the September 25 annulment of her marriage to [[Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex]]; the event is the inspiration for [[John Donne]]'s ''Eclogue''.<ref name="Donne1995">{{cite book|author=John Donne|title=The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6nGr41xRSQMC&pg=PR57|year=1995|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=0-253-31812-2|pages=57–}}</ref>
* [[December 26]] &ndash; The Burmese Army defeats the Siamese Army at [[Dawei|Tavoy]]. The city is now part of Myanmar as Dawei.
* [[December 27]] &ndash; [[Mateo Leal de Ayala]] becomes the new Governor of Rio de la Plata y Paraguay, covering what will become the nations of Argentina, Chile and Paraguay. He succeeds [[:es:Diego Marín de Negron|Diego Marín de Negron]], who was poisoned on July 26.

=== Date unknown ===
* A [[locust]] [[swarm]] destroys La Camarque, [[France]].
* [[Kuwait City]] is founded.
* [[Sultan Agung of Mataram]] takes the throne of the kingdom of [[Mataram Sultanate|Mataram]] in [[Java (island)|Java]].
* Near [[Jamestown, Virginia]], Sir [[Thomas Dale]] starts a settlement called Bermuda City, which later becomes part of [[Hopewell, Virginia]].
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