12th January » The city of Belém is founded in Pará, Brazil by Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco.
20th March » Walter Raleigh called Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.
11th July » Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
15th September » The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy.
25th October » Netherlands known as Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the Western Australia or West Australian coast.
Famous Birthdays in 1616
13th January » Antoinette Bourignon, French-Flemish mystic (d. 1680)
16th January » François de Vendôme, Duc de Beaufort, French soldier (d. 1669)
28th February » Kaspar Förster, German singer and composer (d. 1673)
19th May » Johann Jakob Froberger, German organist and composer (d. 1667)
24th May » John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale, Scottish politician, Secretary of State, Scotland (d. 1682)
11th October » Andreas Gryphius, German poet and playwright (d. 1664)
20th October » Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (d. 1680)
19th November » Eustache Le Sueur, French painter (d. 1655)
23rd November » John Wallis, English mathematician and cryptographer (d. 1703)
Famous Deaths in History for 1616
6th January » Philip Henslowe, English businessman (b. 1550)
22nd April » Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1547)
23rd April » Garcilaso de la Vega (El Inca) named Garcilaso de la Vega, Peruvian historian and author (b. 1539)
23rd April » William Shakespeare, English playwright and actor (b. 1564)
1st June » Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun (b. 1543)
25th July » Andreas Libavius, German physician and chemist (b. 1550)
7th August » Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect, designed Teatro Olimpico (b. 1548)
17th October » John Pitts (Catholic scholar) e.g John Pitts, English priest and scholar (b. 1560)
23rd October » Leonhard Hutter, German theologian (b. 1563)
23rd November » Richard Hakluyt, English priest and author (b. 1552)