1620

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This article is about the year 1620. For the computer, see IBM 1620.
Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
  • 16th century
  • 17th century
  • 18th century
Decades:
Years:
  • 1617
  • 1618
  • 1619
  • 1620
  • 1621
  • 1622
  • 1623
1620 by topic
Arts and science
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Births – Deaths
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Establishments –
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  • Works
1620 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1620
MDCXX
Ab urbe condita2373
Armenian calendar1069
ԹՎ ՌԿԹ
Assyrian calendar6370
Balinese saka calendar1541–1542
Bengali calendar1027
Berber calendar2570
English Regnal year17 Ja. 1 – 18 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar2164
Burmese calendar982
Byzantine calendar7128–7129
Chinese calendar己未年 (Earth Goat)
4316 or 4256
    — to —
庚申年 (Metal Monkey)
4317 or 4257
Coptic calendar1336–1337
Discordian calendar2786
Ethiopian calendar1612–1613
Hebrew calendar5380–5381
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1676–1677
 - Shaka Samvat1541–1542
 - Kali Yuga4720–4721
Holocene calendar11620
Igbo calendar620–621
Iranian calendar998–999
Islamic calendar1029–1030
Japanese calendarGenna 6
(元和６年)
Javanese calendar1540–1542
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3953
Minguo calendar292 before ROC
民前292年
Nanakshahi calendar152
Thai solar calendar2162–2163
Tibetan calendar阴土羊年
(female Earth-Goat)
1746 or 1365 or 593
    — to —
阳金猴年
(male Iron-Monkey)
1747 or 1366 or 594
September: Battle of Cecora.

1620 (MDCXX) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1620th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 620th year of the 2nd millennium, the 20th year of the 17th century, and the 1st year of the 1620s decade. As of the start of 1620, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events[]

November 8: The Battle of White Mountain.
November 21: The Mayflower arrives at Cape Cod.

January–June[]

  • February 4 – Prince Bethlen Gabor signs a peace treaty with Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor.
  • May 17 – The first merry-go-round is seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey).
  • June 3 – The oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, is begun at Quebec City, Canada.

July–December[]

  • July 3
    • Under the terms of the Treaty of Ulm, the Protestant Union declares neutrality and ceases to support Frederick V of Bohemia.
    • Captain Andrew Shilling, on behalf of the English Honourable East India Company, lays claim to Table Bay in Africa.[1]
  • July 25 (July 15 OS) – The armed merchant ship Mayflower embarks about 65 emigrants for New England at or near her home port of Rotherhithe on the Thames east of London; about July 29 (July 19 OS) she anchors in Southampton Water.[2]
  • August 1 (July 22 OS) – The ship Speedwell departs Delfshaven with English separatist Puritans from Leiden bound to rendezvous with the Mayflower; on August 5 (July 26 OS) she anchors in Southampton Water.[2]
  • August 15 (probable date; August 5 OS) – Mayflower and Speedwell depart together from Southampton,[2] but are forced to put back into Dartmouth, Devon, for repairs to a leak in the latter ship on August 22 or 23 (August 12 or 13 OS).
  • August 7
  • September 2 (August 23 OS) – Mayflower and Speedwell depart together from Dartmouth; they are well out into the Atlantic when the Speedwell is again found to be leaking.[2]
  • September 7 (August 28 OS)
    • Mayflower and Speedwell return again to England, anchoring at Plymouth; the latter ship is given up as a participant in the voyage and on September 12 (September 2 OS) departs for London with most of her passengers and stores having been transferred to the Mayflower.[2]
    • The town of Kokkola (Swedish: Karleby) was founded by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.[4][5]
  • September 16 (September 6 OS) – Mayflower departs from Plymouth in England on her third attempt to cross the Atlantic.[6] The Pilgrims on board comprise 41 "saints" (English separatists largely from Holland), 40 "strangers" (largely secular planters from London), 23 servants and hired workers, together with c. 30 crew.
  • September 17–October 7 – Battle of Cecora: The Ottoman Empire defeats Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth–Moldavian troops.
  • October 6 – Battle of Amedamit in Gojjam, Ethiopia: The Roman Catholic Ras Sela Kristos, half-brother of Emperor Susenyos, crushes a group of rebels, who were opposed to Susenyos' pro-Catholic beliefs.
  • November 3 – The Great Patent is granted to Plymouth Colony.
  • November 8 – Thirty Years' War: Battle of White Mountain – Catholic forces are victorious in only two hours near Prague.[7]
  • November 21 (November 11 OS) – The Mayflower arrives inside the tip of Cape Cod (named from the Concord voyage of 1602), at what becomes known as Provincetown Harbor, with the Pilgrims and Planters; 41 Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact, the first governing document of the colony, on board the ship.
  • November 25 – The Wedding of Gustav II Adolf and Maria Eleonora takes place.
  • December 21 – Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what becomes known as Plymouth Rock, in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Date unknown[]

  • A severe frost in England freezes the River Thames; 13 continuous days of snow blanket Scotland. On Eskdale Moor, only 35 of a flock of 20,000 sheep survive.[8]
  • Witch-hunts begin in Scotland.
  • History of submarines: Cornelis Drebbel demonstrates the first navigable undersea boat in the Thames in England.
  • The modern violin is developed.
  • Juan Pablo Bonet, teacher of deaf children in the Spanish court, creates a sign alphabet.
  • Francis Bacon publishes the Novum Organum (beyond Aristotle's Organon) on logical thinking.
  • A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolomé de las Casas and Origin and progress of the disturbances in the Netherlands by Johannes Gysius is re-published in the Netherlands.[9]
  • Shōgun Tokugawa Hidetada restores Osaka Castle. Its modern-day appearance dates from this remodeling.

Ongoing[]

Births[]

Aelbert Cuyp
Winston Churchill
John Evelyn

January–March[]

April–June[]

July–September[]

October–December[]

Deaths[]

Amar Singh I
William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg
Wanli Emperor
Louise de Coligny

January–March[]

April–June[]

July–September[]

  • July 13 – William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (b. 1560)
  • August 2 – Carolus Luython, Belgian composer (b. 1557)
  • August 14 – Katherine Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, wife of Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon (b. 1540)
  • August 18 – Wanli Emperor, of China (b. 1563)
  • September 13 – Wolfgang Hirschbach, German legal scholar (b. 1570)
  • September 26 – Taichang Emperor, fourteenth emperor of the Ming dynasty of China (b. 1582)
  • September – Sidonia von Borcke, German noble and alleged witch (b. 1548)[16]

October–December[]

Date unknown[]

  • Rose of Turaida, legendary Latvian murder victim (b. 1601)
  • John Flower, English politician (b. 1535)

Approximate date[]

References[]

  1. ^ Worden, Nigel; Van Heyningen, Elizabeth; Bickford-Smith, Vivian (1998). Cape Town – the Making of a City: an Illustrated Social History. ISBN 9065501614. Retrieved November 22, 2007.
  2. ^ a b c d e Ames, Azel (1901). The May-Flower and Her Log. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Retrieved June 30, 2019.
  3. ^ National History of France. AMS Press. 1967. p. 22.
  4. ^ YLE: Kokkolan perustajasta puuveistos Suntin varteen (in Finnish)
  5. ^ Historia - Kokkola (in Finnish)
  6. ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  7. ^ Pierre Crabitès (1936). Beneš, Statesman of Central Europe. Coward-McCann, Incorporated. p. 7.
  8. ^ Stratton, J. M. (1969). Agricultural Records. John Baker. ISBN 0-212-97022-4.
  9. ^ "Mirror of the Cruel and Horrible Spanish Tyranny Perpetrated in the Netherlands, by the Tyrant, the Duke of Alba, and Other Commanders of King Philip II". World Digital Library. 1620. Retrieved August 25, 2013.
  10. ^ Hugh Chisholm; James Louis Garvin (1926). The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature & General Information. Encyclopædia Britannica Company, Limited. p. 216.
  11. ^ Beatrice Saunders (1959). Portraits of Genius. J. Murray. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-7195-1215-5.
  12. ^ The Encyclopedia Americana. Grolier Incorporated. 2002. p. 200. ISBN 978-0-7172-0135-8.
  13. ^ Pavel, Lilia Zabolotnaia (2012). "The Story of the Courtship of Catherine 'the Circassian', the Second Wife of the Prince Vasile Lupu" (PDF). Codrul Cosminului. 18 (1): 43–50. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
  14. ^ "Thomas Campion | English poet and musician". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
  15. ^ William Corr (1995). Adams the Pilot: The Life and Times of Captain William Adams, 1564-1620. Routledge. p. 166. ISBN 978-1-873410-44-8.
  16. ^ Inachim, Kyra (2008). "Herrschaft der letzten Greifengeneration". Die Geschichte Pommerns (in German). Rostock: Hinstorff. ISBN 978-3-356-01044-2.
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