1618

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1615 1616 1617 - 1618 - 1619 1620 1621\n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1580s 1590s 1600s - 1610s - 1620s 1630s 1640s\n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
16th century - 17th century - 18th century

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1618 in literature
1618 in science\n|}

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n* March 8 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion (he soon rejects the idea after some initial calculations were made but latter on May 15 confirms the discovery). \n* Start of the Thirty Years' War partly occasioned by the Defenestration of Prague\n* The margraves of Brandenburg is granted Polish approval to inherit Ducal Prussia.\n* The Synod of Dort is convened.\n* Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mustafa I (1617-1623) to Osman II (1618-1622).\n* May 23 - The Second Defenstration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years' War. \n* October 29 - English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.

Births

\n* January 1 - Duke Karl I Ludwig of Pfalz, Heidelberg, Germany\n* November 3 - Aurangzeb, Mughal emperor

Deaths

\n* October 29 - Sir Walter Raleigh \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n