1624 facts for kids

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1590s 1600s 1610s – 1620s – 1630s 1640s 1650s
Years:	1621 1622 1623 – 1624 – 1625 1626 1627

Events

January 24 – Alfonso Mendez, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa.
The Netherlands establish a trading colony at Kaohsiung on Taiwan.
Thirty Walloon families settle in the New Netherland colony.
Oslo is destroyed by fire. When rebuilt by Christian IV, it would be renamed Christiania.
Claudio Monteverdi publishes Tancredi e Clorinda.
Jean Louis Guez de Balzac publishes his Lettres.
Bernardo de Balbuena publishes El Bernardo.
Santa Rosalia makes a miraculous appearance during a plague in Palermo.
Kalmia latifolia (mountain laurel) first recorded in America.
Jakob Bartsch records the constellation Camelopardalis.
Dr Challoner's Grammar School is founded.
The Palace of Versailles is first built, as a hunting lodge.
Chateau Cheverny begins construction.
Pembroke College, Oxford founded.
The Japanese Shogun expels Spanish from the land and severs trade with the Philippines
Mail service begins in Denmark
University founded in Bolivia
War between England and Spain
Cornelius Drebbel discover gases
Cardinal Richelieu appointed by Louis XIII to be his advisor
Henry Briggs publishes Arithmetica Logarithmica