1625: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Events

• March 27 - Prince Charles Stuart becomes King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland.
• June 13 - Marriage of Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria, Princess of France and Navarra.
• The English Parliament refuses to vote Charles I the right to collect customs duties for his entire reign, restricting him to one year instead.
• William Oughtred invents the slide rule.
• James Ussher becomes Archbishop of Armagh.
• New Netherlands director Wilhem Verhulst commissions the construction of Fort Amsterdam on the southern tip of Manhattan.

• June 28 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian astronomer and engineer (died 1712)

• March 7 - Johann Bayer, astronomer
• March 27 - King James I of England, Scotland and Ireland.
• June 5 - Orlando Gibbons, composer