Editing 1615 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 1]] &ndash; The [[New Netherland Company]] is granted a three-year [[monopoly]] in [[North America]]n trade, between the [[40th parallel north|40th]] and [[45th parallel north|45th]] [[Circle of latitude|parallels]].
* [[January 30]] &ndash; Japan's diplomatic mission to Europe, led by [[Hasekura Tsunenaga]], meets with [[Philip III of Spain|King Philip III of Spain]] at [[Madrid]] and presents an offer of a treaty.
* [[February 2]] &ndash; Sir [[Thomas Roe]] sets out to become the first ambassador from the court of the [[King of England]] to the [[Mughal Empire|Mughal Emperor]] [[Jahangir]],<ref name="Cassell's Chronology 243248">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/243|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/243 243–248]}}</ref><ref>{{cite ODNB|first=Michael|last=Strachan|title=Roe, Sir Thomas (1581–1644)|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23943|access-date=2012-10-09|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/23943}} </ref> departing from Tilbury Hope on the ship ''Lyon'' under the command of captain [[Christopher Newport]]. <ref>Thomas Roe, as edited by Sir William Foster, ''The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul, 1615-1619, as Narrated in His Journal and Correspondence'' (Hakluyt Society, 1899) p. 28 ("All being ready, on February 2, 1615, Roe embarked with fifteen followers in the Lion at Tilbury Hope.")</ref>
* [[February 17]] &ndash; Japan's envoy to Europe, Hasekura Tsunenaga, receives a Christian baptism by the royal chaplain, Diego de Guzmán, and receives the European name Felipe Francisco Hasekura. <ref>"The Perception of the Japanese in Early Modern Spain: Not Quite 'The Best People Yet Discovered'", by Christina H. Lee, in ''EHumanista'' (2008) pp. 358–359 </ref>
* [[March 10]] &ndash; [[John Ogilvie (saint)|John Ogilvie]], a Jesuit priest, is [[Hanged, drawn and quartered|hanged and drawn]] at [[Glasgow Cross]] in [[Kingdom of Scotland|Scotland]] for refusing to pledge allegiance to [[King James VI of Scotland]]; he will be [[canonised]] in 1976, becoming the only post-[[Scottish Reformation|Reformation]] Scottish saint.