Historical Events
- Jan 20 Peace of Knarod ends War of Kalmar between Denmark & Sweden
- Jan 24 Amsterdam merchant Hans Bontemantel baptized
- Feb 7 Michail Romanov (aged 16) becomes Tsar of Russia
- Feb 20 Gerard Reynst appointed Governor-General of Dutch East Indies
- Feb 21 Michael Romanov, son of Patriarch of Moscow, elected first Russian Tsar of the house of Romanov
- Mar 27 The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy
- Jun 29 Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, England, burns down during a performance of "Henry VIII"
- Jul 2 The first English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia led by Samuel Argall
- Dec 25 Johan Sigismund of Brandenburg becomes protestant
World Leaders in 1613
James I and VI
King of Great Britain
Famous People in 1613
William Shakespeare
Playwright
Famous People Born in 1613
- Jan 19 Jacques Huyn, French baroque composer, born in Beaune (d. 1652)
- Jan 26 Johann Jakob Wolleb, composer
- Feb 2 Noël Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
- Mar 12 André Le Nôtre, French landscape architect (d. 1700)
- Mar 28 Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, Empress of Manchu (1643-62) (d. 1688)
Famous Weddings
- Feb 14 King James I's daughter Elizabeth marries Frederik
- Feb 24 English princess Elizabeth marries Earl Frederik of Palts
- Oct 30 Astronomer Johannes Kepler marries his second wife Susanna Reuttinger
- Dec 26 Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, marries Frances Howard, occasioning John Donne's "Eclogue"
Famous Deaths
- Apr 27 Robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit (b. 1532)
- May 5 Johann Steuerlein, German composer, dies at 66
- Aug 7 Thomas Fleming, English judge (b. 1544)
- Aug 9 Giovanni Righi, composer, dies at 36
- Aug 18 Giovanni Artusi, Italian composer