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1614| 1606–1657 | Ottoman Empire, Habsburg Monarchy, Hungary, Transylvania [treaties] | The 1606 peace treaties between the Habsburg and Ottoman empires lead to half a century of peace and stability in Hungary; no major campaigns are fought between the two, though frontier skirmishes and raids are endemic, and Transylvania develops into a rich regional power. | | 1607–1700 | North America, UK [food and drink] | Fruits introduced to the North American colonies from England include apples, which adapt well in New England, and peaches, which grow easily in Virginia and other warmer regions. Native vegetables like pumpkins, squash, and beans are favoured over European vegetables. | | 1614 | Scotland [maths] | The Scottish mathematician John Napier invents logarithms, a method for doing difficult calculations quickly. His results are published in Mirifici logarithmorum canonis descriptio/Description of the Marvellous Rule of Logarithms. | | 1614 | Italy [painting] | Italian artist Guido Reni paints the fresco Aurora in the Casino Rospigliosi in Rome. | | 19 February 1614 | France [political events] | Rebel French nobles led by Henri II de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, supported by the Dukes of Nevers, Mayenne, Bouillon, and Longueville, raise armies in rebellion against the regime of the queen mother Marie de' Medici and her Italian favourite Concino Concini; there is widespread support for the rebels in view of the unpopularity of the projected Spanish marriage of the young Louis XIII, the evidence of maladministration, and the failure to summon the Estates General (parliament). | | 7 April 1614 | Spain, Greece [births and deaths] | El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos), celebrated Greco-Spanish painter, whose major works include View of Toledo (c. 1610) and The Adoration of the Shepherds (1612–14), dies in Toledo, Spain (c. 73). | | 15 May 1614 | France [political events] | The French rebel princes, led by Henri II de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, win many of their demands from the administration in the Peace of St Menehould; the young king Louis XIII undertakes to summon the Estates General (parliament). | | October 1614 - March 1615 | France [political events] | The French Estates General (parliament), summoned after the rebellion of the princes against the regime of the queen mother Marie de' Medici and her Italian favourite Concino Concini, meets for the last time before 1789 in Paris, France; it dissolves in wrangling between the three estates. |
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