WHAT HAPPENED IN 1616.
Look what happened the 1616.

The city of Belém is founded in Pará, Brazil by Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco. (12. January 1616)

Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec. (11. July 1616)

The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy. (15. September 1616)

Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment. (20. March 1616)

Nicolaus Copernicus's book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium is banned by the Catholic Church (5. March 1616)

Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast. (25. October 1616)

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