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Year 1613 (MDCXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1613

January - June

January 20 - King James I of England successfully mediates the Treaty of Knäred between Denmark and Sweden.
February 7 - An assembly of the Russian Empire elects Mikhail Romanov to be Tsar of Russia, and establishes the Romanov Dynasty, ending the Time of Troubles.
February 14 - Elizabeth, daughter of King James I of England, marries Frederick V, Elector Palatine.
March 27 - The first English child is born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
March 29 - Samuel de Champlain becomes the first unofficial Governor of New France.
April - Near Jamestown, Virginia, Samuel Argall captures Chief Powhatan’s daughter, Pocahontas, and she's brought to Jamestown.
June - At Jamestown, John Rolfe makes the first shipment of West Indian tobacco grown in Virginia to England.
June 29 - Fire destroys London's famed Globe Theatre.

July - December

August 29 - The Sicilians under de Aragon defeat the Turkish trade fleet.

November 3 - English royal favourite Robert Carr is created 1st Earl of Somerset.

Undated

The New River is opened, to supply London with drinking water from Hertfordshire.

James I of England condemns duels in his proclamation Against Private Challenges and Combats.

The Ottoman Empire invades Hungary.

A locust swarm destroys La Camarque, France.

The territory of Kuwait is founded.

Sultan Agung takes the throne of the kingdom of Mataram on Java.

Near Jamestown, Virginia, Sir Thomas Dale starts a settlement called "Bermuda City" which later becomes part of Hopewell, Virginia.

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)

September 25 - Claude Perrault, French architect (d. 1688)

November 5 - Isaac de Benserade, French poet (d. 1691)

December 23 - Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish soldier (d. 1676)

date unknown

Henry Vane, English politician (d. 1662)
Khushal Khan Khattak, Afghan poet (d. 1690)

probable

Richard Crashaw, English poet (d. 1649)

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Deaths

January 28 - Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and library founder (b. 1545)

April 27 - Robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit missionary (b. 1532)

August 7 - Thomas Fleming, English judge (b. 1544)

August 18 - Giovanni Artusi, Italian composer (b. c. 1540)

September 8 - Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (b. 1566)

September 15 - Thomas Overbury, English poet (murdered) (b. 1581)

November 16 - Trajano Boccalini, Italian satirist (b. 1556)

December 6 - Anton Praetorius, German pastor (b. 1560)

date unknown - Phung Khac Khoan, Vietnamese military strategist, politician, diplomat and poet (b. 1528) � See also .

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