1614

1614 (MDCXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday in the Julian calendar.

 Events 
 April 5 – In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
 October 11 – Adriaen Block and a group of Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the area he explored and named "New Netherland".
 The French Estates-General meets for the last time before the era of the French Revolution. In between, France will be governed as an absolute monarchy.
 John Napier publishes a paper outlining his discovery of logarithms.
 The University of Groningen is established.
 Institution of the Rosicrucian Order in Germany according to Fraternitas Rosae Crucis.
 Toyotomi Hideyori attempts to restore Osaka Castle. Tokugawa Ieyasu, father of the Shogun, is outraged at this act, and takes the castle by storm.

 Births 
 January 1 – John Wilkins, English clergyman (d. 1672)
 January 5 – Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (d. 1662)
 July 10 – Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (d. 1686)
 December 16 – Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1674)
 Franciscus Sylvius, German scientist (d. 1672)

 Deaths