Important Historical Events of the year 1616, Year 1616 in History

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List of 1616 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1616

What happened in the year 1616?

Date	Event
January 12, 1616	The city of Belém, Brazil is founded on the Amazon River delta, by Portuguese captain Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco.
February 26, 1616	Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.
March 5, 1616	Nicolaus Copernicus's book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published.
March 20, 1616	Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.
May 3, 1616	Treaty of Loudun ends a French civil war.
July 11, 1616	Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
October 25, 1616	Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.