1611

1611 (MDCXI) was a common year starting on Saturday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday in the Julian calendar.

1611 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1611 MDCXI
Ab urbe condita	2364
Armenian calendar	1060 ԹՎ ՌԿ
Assyrian calendar	6361
Balinese saka calendar	1532–1533
Bengali calendar	1018
Berber calendar	2561
English Regnal year	8 Ja. 1 – 9 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar	2155
Burmese calendar	973
Byzantine calendar	7119–7120
Chinese calendar	庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 4307 or 4247     — to — 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 4308 or 4248
Coptic calendar	1327–1328
Discordian calendar	2777
Ethiopian calendar	1603–1604
Hebrew calendar	5371–5372
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1667–1668
- Shaka Samvat	1532–1533
- Kali Yuga	4711–4712
Holocene calendar	11611
Igbo calendar	611–612
Iranian calendar	989–990
Islamic calendar	1019–1020
Japanese calendar	Keichō 16 (慶長１６年)
Javanese calendar	1531–1532
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3944
Minguo calendar	301 before ROC 民前301年
Nanakshahi calendar	143
Thai solar calendar	2153–2154
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Iron-Dog) 1737 or 1356 or 584     — to — ལྕགས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Iron-Boar) 1738 or 1357 or 585

Events

• June 23 – Henry Hudson's crew maroons him, his son and 7 others in a boat
• November 1 – At Whitehall Palace in London, William Shakespeare's romantic comedy The Tempest is presented for the first time.
• Gustavus Adolphus becomes king of Sweden
• Denmark attacks Sweden
• King James Version of the Bible first published in England
• George Abbot becomes archbishop of Canterbury
• Johannes and David Fabricius discover sunspots
• End of the reign of Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan
• Emperor Go-Mizunoo ascends to the throne of Japan
• Gov. Sir Thomas Dale arrives at Jamestown from England announcing new rules called "Laws Divine, Morall and Martial."
• Thomas Dale founds the city of Henricus on the James River a few miles south of present-day Richmond, Virginia