Events of 1614

April 5: Pocahontas marries John Rolfe.

July–December

• August 23 – The University of Groningen is established in the Netherlands.

• September 1 – In England, Sir Julius Caesar becomes Master of the Rolls.

• 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".

• November 16 – The Treaty of Xanten ends the War of the Jülich succession.

• November 19 – The Siege of Osaka begins.

Undated

• 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 Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio, a paper outlining his discovery of logarithms.

• The Rosicrucian Order is instituted 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.

• Christianity banned throughout Japan

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)

• date unknown – Franciscus Sylvius, German scientist (d. 1672)

Deaths

• April 7 – El Greco, or Domênikos Theotokópoulos (Greek: Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος), Cretian painter, sculptor and architect (b. 1541)

• June 15 – Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, English politician (b. 1540)

• July 1 – Isaac Casaubon, French-born classical scholar (b. 1559)

• July 14 – Camillus de Lellis, Italian saint (b. 1550)

• July 15 – Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, French historian and biographer

• August 11 – Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (b. 1552)

• August 21 – Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian serial killer (b. 1560)

• September – Giovanni de Macque, composer (b. c. 1550)