1624 (MDCXXIV) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1624th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 624th year of the 2nd millennium, the 24th year of the 17th century, and the 5th year of the 1620s decade. As of the start of 1624, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
May 8: The Capture of Bahia in Portuguese Brazil is made by the Dutch East India Company
1624 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1624
MDCXXIV
Ab urbe condita2377
Armenian calendar1073
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Assyrian calendar6374
Balinese saka calendar1545–1546
Bengali calendar1031
Berber calendar2574
English Regnal year21 Ja. 1 – 22 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar2168
Burmese calendar986
Byzantine calendar7132–7133
Chinese calendar癸亥年 (Water Pig)
4321 or 4114
    — to —
甲子年 (Wood Rat)
4322 or 4115
Coptic calendar1340–1341
Discordian calendar2790
Ethiopian calendar1616–1617
Hebrew calendar5384–5385
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1680–1681
 - Shaka Samvat1545–1546
 - Kali Yuga4724–4725
Holocene calendar11624
Igbo calendar624–625
Iranian calendar1002–1003
Islamic calendar1033–1034
Japanese calendarGenna 10 / Kan'ei 1
(寛永元年)
Javanese calendar1545–1546
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3957
Minguo calendar288 before ROC
民前288年
Nanakshahi calendar156
Thai solar calendar2166–2167
Tibetan calendar阴水猪年
(female Water-Pig)
1750 or 1369 or 597
    — to —
阳木鼠年
(male Wood-Rat)
1751 or 1370 or 598

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Guarino Guarini
 
Pierre Lambert de la Motte
 
Lambert Doomer
 
Thomas Sydenham
 
Murad Bakhsh
 
Barent Fabritius

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Ketevan the Martyr
 
Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech
 
Simón de Rojas
 
Gaspard Bauhin
 
John Kendrick

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