1618
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Events
March 8 - Johannes Kepler discovers the Kepler's laws of planetary motion|third law of planetary motion (he soon rejects the idea after some initial calculations were made but on May 15 confirms the discovery).
May 23 - The Defenestrations of Prague|Second Defenestration of Prague - protestant noblemen throw three representatives of Ferdinand II out of a window. The event precipitates the Thirty Years' War.
July 20 - Pluto reached, according to sophisticated mathematics|mathematical calculations, its second most recent aphelion. The next one occurred in 1866, and the following one will occur in ''2113''.
August 29 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and Hugo Grotius are imprisoned by Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange
October 29 - England|English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
The margraves of Brandenburg is granted Poland|Polish approval to inherit Ducal Prussia.
November 13, the Synod of Dordrecht has its first meeting.
Change of Ottoman Emperor|emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mustafa I (1617-1623) to Osman II (1618-1622).
Births
January 1 - Bartolomé Estéban Murillo, Spanish painter (d. 1682)
April 2 - Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1663)
April 13 - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (d. 1693)
November 3 - Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1707)
Richard Lovelace, English poet
Deaths
February 20 - Philip William, Prince of Orange (b. 1554)
March 23 - James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn, Scottish politician
June 7 - Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English Governor of Virginia (b. 1577)
August 23 - Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (b. 1585)
September 28 - Joshua Sylvester, English poet (b. 1563)
October 29 - Sir Walter Raleigh, English courtier and settler of Virginia (executed) (b. 1554)
November 2 - Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (b. 1558)
December 6 - Jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (b. 1556)
December 10 - Giulio Caccini, Italian composer
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