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| 1615 |
| | | Sir Thomas Roe, the first British ambassador to India, arrives at the court of the Mughal emperor Jahangir | |
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| c. 1615 |
| | | The Mughal school of painting reaches a peak of perfection in the reign of Jahangir | |
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| 1616 |
| | | Richelieu begins his public career, becoming a secretary of state to Marie de Médicis | |
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| 1616 |
| | | Pocahontas fascinates Londoners when she arrives with her husband to publicize Jamestown | |
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| 1616 |
| | | John Smith publishes A Description of New England, an account of his exploration of the region in 1614 | |
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| 1616 |
| | | William Shakespeare dies at New Place, his home in Stratford-upon-Avon, and is buried in Holy Trinity Church | |
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| 1617 |
| | | The treaty of Stolbova brings into Swedish hands the coast round the Gulf of Finland, ending Russian access to the Baltic | |
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| 1617 |
| | | Albrecht von Wallenstein uses his wife's fortune to mobilize a private army in support of the emperor Ferdinand II | |
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| 1618 |
| | | Bohemian nobles throw the Habsburg regents out of a window in the castle in Prague, thus triggering the Thirty Years' War | |
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| 1618 |
| | | The Teatro Farnese in Parma is the first to have a proscenium arch, framing perspective scenery painted on flat wings | |
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