Editing 1616 (section)

=== October–December ===
* [[October 10]] – [[Sakazaki Naomori]] of [[Iwami Province|Iwami]] [[Tsuwano han]] commits suicide after failing to kidnap [[Princess Sen]].
* [[October 25]] – [[Dirk Hartog]] makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at [[Dirk Hartog Island]] off the Western Australian coast, and the [[pewter]] [[Hartog Plate]] is left to mark the landfall of the Dutch ship ''[[Eendracht (1615 ship)|Eendracht]]''.<ref>Plate now in the [[Rijksmuseum]] in [[Amsterdam]].</ref>
* [[October]]
** [[John Donne]] is appointed as Reader in Divinity at his old [[Inns of Court|inn of court]] in London, [[Lincoln's Inn]].
** [[King James's School, Knaresborough]] in [[Yorkshire]] is founded by Dr. Robert Chaloner, and the charter is signed by King James I of England.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kellett|first=Arnold|title=King James's School, 1616–2003|location=Knaresborough|publisher=King James's School|year=2003|isbn=0-9545195-0-7}}</ref>
* [[October]]/[[November]] – [[Ben Jonson]]'s satirical five-act comedy, ''[[The Devil is an Ass]]'', is produced at the [[Blackfriars Theatre]] in London by the [[King's Men (playing company)|King's Men]], poking fun at contemporary credence in witchcraft and [[Middlesex]] juries.<ref>Published [[1631]].</ref>
* [[November 4]] – [[Charles I of England|Prince Charles]] (15-year-old surviving son of [[James I of England]] and [[Anne of Denmark]]) is invested as [[Prince of Wales]] at [[Whitehall]] in London, the last such formal investiture until [[1911]].
* [[November 5]] – Bishop [[Lancelot Andrewes]] preaches the annual [[Gunpowder Plot|Gunpowder Treason]] sermon before King [[James I of England]] at [[Whitehall]], both having been intended victims of the plot.
* [[November 6]]–[[November 25|25]] – [[Ben Jonson]]'s works are published in a collected [[Ben Jonson folios|folio]] edition (the first of any English playwright).<ref name="CBH1616"/><ref>{{cite journal|last=Bland|first=M.|title=William Stansby and the production of the ''Workes of Beniamin Jonson'', 1615–16|journal=The Library|publisher=[[Bibliographical Society]]|volume=20|year=1998|page=10|doi=10.1093/library/20.1.1|doi-broken-date=November 1, 2024 }}</ref>
* [[November 6]] – Captain William Murray is granted a royal [[patent]], giving him the sole privilege of importing [[tobacco]] to Scotland for a period of 21 years. Continuing from the reign of [[Elizabeth I of England]], the creation of grants and patents reaches a new highwater mark from [[1614]] to [[1621]], during the reign of [[James I of England]].
* [[November 13]] – Italian artist [[Guido Reni]]'s famous ''Pietà'', commissioned by the Senate of [[Bologna]], is placed on the greater altar of the church of Santa Maria della Pietà.
* [[November 14]] – In England, Sir [[Edward Coke]] is dismissed as [[Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales|Chief Justice of the King's Bench]] by royal prerogative. 
* [[November 16]]
** The [[Tepehuán Revolt]] begins in Nueva Vizcaya with the attack of a Spanish wagon train that is on its way to Mexico City. It tests the limits of Spanish and [[Jesuit]] [[colonialism]], in western and northwestern [[Durango]] and southern [[Chihuahua (state)|Chihuahua]], Mexico. <ref>Charlotte M. Gradie, ''The Tepehuan Revolt of 1616'' (University of Utah Press, 2000) p. 32</ref>
** [[Marco Antonio de Dominis]], [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] [[Archbishop]] of the See of Spalato and [[Primate (bishop)|Primate]] of [[Dalmatia]],  having run afoul of [[Pope Paul V]] over secular matters relating to [[Venice]], submits to King [[James I of England]] and later becomes Dean of Windsor.
* [[November 30]] – [[Cardinal Richelieu]], Armand-Jean du Plessis, is named French [[Secretary of State]] by young king [[Louis XIII]]. Richelieu will change France into a unified centralised state, able to resist both England and the [[Habsburg monarchy|Habsburg Empire]].
* [[November]]
**[[Peter Paul Rubens]] begins work on classical [[tapestry|tapestries]], when a contract is signed in [[Antwerp]] with cloth dyers Jan Raes and Frans Sweerts in Brussels, and the [[Genoa|Genoese]] merchant Franco Cattaneo.
** [[René Descartes]], at age 20, graduates in [[Civil law (legal system)|civil]] and [[canon law]] at the [[University of Poitiers]], where he becomes disillusioned with books, preferring to seek truths from "le grand livre du monde." His thesis defense may be written in December.
** With small profits to show, the [[Virginia Company]] decides to distribute land in [[Virginia]] to [[shareholder]]s according to the number of shares owned. Each stockholder can set up a "particular" plantation and pay associated expenses, receiving {{Convert|100|acre|km2}} of land for each share and {{Convert|50|acre|m2}} for each person transported (the "headrights" system).
** Scholar [[Robert Burton (scholar)|Robert Burton]] is made [[vicar]] of [[St Thomas the Martyr's Church, Oxford]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature|series=The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature|edition=1st|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|location=Chichester|year=2012|doi=10.1002/9781118297353.wbeerlb043 |url=https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118297353.wbeerlb043}}</ref><ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Burton|title=Robert Burton {{!}} English author, scholar, and clergyman|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2018-09-07|language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 10]] – An [[School Establishment Act 1616|ordinance]] establishes [[Parish#Scotland|parish]] schools in Scotland. The same act of the [[Privy Council]] commends the abolition of [[Scottish Gaelic|Gaelic]].
* [[December 18]] – A widely reported earthquake occurs in [[Leipzig]], Germany (also dated [[December 22]]).<ref>{{cite web|title=A Basic European Earthquake Catalogue and a Database for the evaluation of long-term seismicity and seismic hazard (BEECD)|url=http://emidius.mi.ingv.it/BEECD/app/app_E.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://emidius.mi.ingv.it/BEECD/app/app_E.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|access-date=2008-03-05}}</ref>
* [[December 22]] – An Indian youth (called one of "the first fruits of India") is baptized with the name "Peter" in London at the St. Dionis Backchurch, in a ceremony attended by the [[Lord Mayor of London|Lord Mayor]], the [[Privy Council]], city aldermen, and officials of the [[Honourable East India Company]]. Peter thus becomes the first convert to the [[Anglican Church]] in India. He returns to India as a missionary, schooled in English and Latin.<ref>{{cite book|first=Rozina|last=Visram|title=Asians in Britain: 400 Years of History|url=https://archive.org/details/asiansinbritain40068visr|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Pluto Press|year=2002|isbn=0-7453-1373-6}}</ref>
* [[December 25]]
** "[[Father Christmas]]" is a main character of ''[[Christmas, His Masque]]'', written by [[Ben Jonson]] and presented at the court of King [[James I of England]]. Father Christmas is considered a [[papist]] symbol by [[Puritans]], and later banished from England until the [[English Restoration]]. The traditional, comical costume for this jolly figure, as well as regional names, indicate that he is descended from the presenter of the [[Middle Ages|medieval]] [[Feast of Fools]].
** Captain [[Nathaniel Courthope]] reaches the [[nutmeg]]-rich island of [[Run (island)|Run]] in the [[Moluccas]], to defend it against the [[Dutch East India Company]]. A contract with the inhabitants, accepting [[James I of England]] as their sovereign, makes it part of the [[English colonial empire]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Ratnikas |first=Algirdas J. |url=http://timelines.ws/countries/INDONESIA.HTML |title=Timeline Indonesia |publisher=Timelines.ws |access-date=2010-08-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100710081853/http://timelines.ws/countries/INDONESIA.HTML |archive-date=July 10, 2010 |df=mdy }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Giles|last=Milton|title=Nathaniel's Nutmeg: Or the True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History|location=New York|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|year=1999|isbn=978-0-374-21936-9|url=https://archive.org/details/nathanielsnutmeg00milt}}</ref>
* [[December]] – In the Middle East, traveller [[Pietro Della Valle]] marries Jowaya, daughter of a [[Nestorian Christian]] father and an [[Armenia]]n mother, in [[Baghdad]]. The couple then sets off ([[1617]]) to find the Shah in [[Isfahan]].