1616
This page lists news articles and events for the year 1616.
Events that happen on the specified date are listed under Events: entries. News articles that were published on the specified date are listed under News: entries. Events that only happened in fiction on the specified date are listed under Fiction: entries and are written in italics.
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- Event: The Confessio Fraternitatis, the second of the two revelatory documents of Rosicrucianism, is published anonymously in Germany.
- Event: Sir Walter Raleigh fails a second time to capture Guiana. This failure leads to tension between England and Spain, and to Raleigh's execution. He was hoping to discover El Dorado.
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