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| Gregorian calendar | 1614 MDCXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2367 |
| Armenian calendar | 1063 ԹՎ ՌԿԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6364 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1535–1536 |
| Bengali calendar | 1021 |
| Berber calendar | 2564 |
| English Regnal year | 11 Ja. 1 – 12 Ja. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2158 |
| Burmese calendar | 976 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7122–7123 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 4310 or 4250 — to — 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 4311 or 4251 |
| Coptic calendar | 1330–1331 |
| Discordian calendar | 2780 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1606–1607 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5374–5375 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1670–1671 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1535–1536 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4714–4715 |
| Holocene calendar | 11614 |
| Igbo calendar | 614–615 |
| Iranian calendar | 992–993 |
| Islamic calendar | 1022–1023 |
| Japanese calendar | Keichō 19 (慶長１９年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1534–1535 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
| Korean calendar | 3947 |
| Minguo calendar | 298 before ROC 民前298年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 146 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2156–2157 |
| Tibetan calendar | ཆུ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Water-Ox) 1740 or 1359 or 587 — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Wood-Tiger) 1741 or 1360 or 588 |
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1614 (MDCXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday in the Julian calendar.
Events
- April 5 – In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
- 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".
- 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 a paper outlining his discovery of logarithms.
- The University of Groningen is established.
- Institution of the Rosicrucian Order 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.
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)
- Franciscus Sylvius, German scientist (d. 1672)