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1619

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1619 in literature
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Table of contents
1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Heads of state in 1619

Events

\n* May 13 - Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after having been accused of treason.\n* July 30 - In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time. \n* December 4 - Thirty-eight colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (this is considered by some to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas).\n* Slaves are first brought to the Americas.\n* Ferdinand II elected as Holy Roman Emperor.\n* England establishes its first outpost in India.\n* The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth reaches the height of its territorial extent.

Births

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February 24 - Charles Le Brun, French painter and art theorist\n* March 6 - Cyrano de Bergerac, soldier, poet

Deaths

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March 4 - Anne of Denmark, Consort of James I of England\n* March 13 - Richard Burbage, actor\n* May 13 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman\n* - Hans Lippershey, Dutch lensmaker (* 1570(?))

"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)