1621

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1621 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1621
MDCXXI
Ab urbe condita2374
Armenian calendar1070
ԹՎ ՌՀ
Assyrian calendar6371
Balinese saka calendar1542–1543
Bengali calendar1028
Berber calendar2571
English Regnal year18 Ja. 1 – 19 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar2165
Burmese calendar983
Byzantine calendar7129–7130
Chinese calendar庚申年 (Metal Monkey)
4317 or 4257
    — to —
辛酉年 (Metal Rooster)
4318 or 4258
Coptic calendar1337–1338
Discordian calendar2787
Ethiopian calendar1613–1614
Hebrew calendar5381–5382
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1677–1678
 - Shaka Samvat1542–1543
 - Kali Yuga4721–4722
Holocene calendar11621
Igbo calendar621–622
Iranian calendar999–1000
Islamic calendar1030–1031
Japanese calendarGenna 7
(元和７年)
Javanese calendar1542–1543
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3954
Minguo calendar291 before ROC
民前291年
Nanakshahi calendar153
Thai solar calendar2163–2164
Tibetan calendar阳金猴年
(male Iron-Monkey)
1747 or 1366 or 594
    — to —
阴金鸡年
(female Iron-Rooster)
1748 or 1367 or 595
The Siege of Montauban.

1621 (MDCXXI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1621st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 621st year of the 2nd millennium, the 21st year of the 17th century, and the 2nd year of the 1620s decade. As of the start of 1621, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events[]

January–June[]

  • February 9 – Papal Conclave of 1621: Pope Gregory XV succeeds Pope Paul V, as the 234th pope.
  • February 17 – Myles Standish is appointed as the first commander of Plymouth Colony.[1]
  • March 16 – Samoset, a Mohegan, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them: "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
  • March 22 – The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.
  • March 31 – King Philip IV of Spain begins his 44-year rule.[2]
  • April – The Twelve Years' Truce between the Dutch Republic and the Spanish Empire expires, and both sides prepare to resume the Eighty Years' War.
  • April 1 – The Plymouth, Massachusetts colonists create the first treaty with native Americans.
  • April 5 – The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, on a return trip to England.
  • May 2 – The Panama earthquake affects the Isthmus of Panama, with an estimated magnitude of 6.9, and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong).
  • May 12 – The city of Tornio in Lapland is founded by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, becoming the northernmost city in the world at the time.[3]
  • May 24 – The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.
  • June 3 – The Dutch West India Company is founded.[4]
  • June 21 – Thirty Years' War: Twenty-seven Czech lords are executed on the Old Town Square in Prague, as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.
  • June 24 – Huguenot rebellions: Saint-Jean-d'Angély is taken, after a 26-day siege by Royal forces.

July–December[]

  • July 25 – Thirty Years' War – Battle of Neu Titschein: Remnants of the Bohemian army temporarily hold off the Imperial advance in Silesia.
  • August – Huguenot rebellions: Louis XIII of France besieges the Huguenot city of Montauban in the Siege of Montauban, but is forced to abandon his siege two months later.
  • September – October – Battle of Khotyn: Polish troops hold off a large Ottoman army for over a month.[5]
  • October – The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony and Wampanoags celebrate a harvest feast (three days), later regarded as the First Thanksgiving, noted for peaceful co-existence.
  • October 9 – The Treaty of Khotyn is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, ending the First Polish-Ottoman War.[5]
  • November 11 – The ship Fortune arrives at Plymouth Colony, with 35 more settlers.
  • December – The Dutch mathematician and astronomer, Willebrord Snel van Royen (1580–1626), reveals he has rediscovered the law of refraction, also known as Snellius' law.[6]
  • December 31 – Thirty Years' War: The Peace of Nikolsburg is signed between Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor and Gabor Bethlen, Prince of Transylvania. Bethlen agrees to renounce his claims to Hungary. In return Bethlen receives several counties and lands along the eastern border of the Holy Roman Empire, and Moravia is granted religious freedom.

Date unknown[]

  • The Venezuelan city of Petare is founded by Spanish conquistadors, as San Jose de Guanarito.
  • The Swedish city of Gothenburg is founded by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.[7] The king also grants city rights to Luleå, Piteå and Torneå (Tornio). Riga falls under the rule of Sweden.
  • Tamblot rallies an unknown, large amount of people in Bohol, Captaincy General of the Philippines to revolt against the Spanish Empire.[8]
  • The Dutch East India Company sends 2,000 soldiers, under the command of Jan Pieterszoon Coen, to the Banda Islands, in order to force the local inhabitants to accept the Dutch trade monopoly on the lucrative nutmeg, grown almost exclusively on those islands. The soldiers proceed to massacre most of the 15,000 indigenous inhabitants.


Births[]

Thomas Willis
Lamoral II Claudius Franz, Count of Thurn and Taxis
Erzsébet Thurzó
William Penn
Rutger von Ascheberg born 2 June
Edward Proger

January–March[]

  • January 16 – Magnus Celsius, Swedish astronomer and mathematician (d. 1679)
  • January 27 – Thomas Willis, English doctor who played an important part in the history of anatomy (d. 1675)
  • January 30 – George II Rákóczi, Hungarian nobleman (d. 1660)
  • February 2 – Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian-born humanist (d. 1679)
  • February 4 – Frederick, Burgrave of Dohna, Dutch officer, and governor of Orange (d. 1688)
  • February 14 – Sibylla Schwarz, German poet (d. 1638)
  • February 20 – Erzsébet Thurzó, Hungarian noblewoman (d. 1642)
  • February 21 – Rebecca Nurse, Massachusetts colonist, executed as a witch (d. 1692)
  • February – Lamoral II Claudius Franz, Count of Thurn and Taxis, Postmaster General of the Holy Roman Empire (1646–1676) (d. 1676)
  • March 1 – John Alleyn, Cornish barrister (d. 1663)
  • March 2 – Louis Günther II, Count of Schwarzburg-Ebeleben (1642–1681) (d. 1681)
  • March 9 – Egbert van der Poel, Dutch painter (d. 1664)
  • March 16 – Georg Neumark, German poet and composer of hymns (d. 1681)
  • March 24 – John VI, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1621–1667) (d. 1667)
  • March 26 (bapt.) – Jacob van der Ulft, Dutch painter (d. 1689)
  • March 27 – Margrave Charles Magnus of Baden-Durlach (d. 1658)
  • March 28 – Heinrich Schwemmer, German music teacher and composer (d. 1696)
  • March 31 – Andrew Marvell, English metaphysical poet and politician (d. 1678)[9]

April–June[]

July–September[]

October–December[]

Approximate date[]

  • Richard Allestree, English churchman and provost of Eton College (d. 1681)

Deaths[]

January–March[]

Pope Paul V
Pietro Aldobrandini
Servant of God Ana de Jesús

April–June[]

Venerable Anne de Xainctonge

July–September[]

Guillaume du Vair
Saint John Berchmans
John Barclay
Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī
Saint Robert Bellarmine
  • July 2 – Thomas Harriot, English astronomer and mathematician (b. c. 1560)
  • July 4 – Jean de Bonsi, Catholic cardinal (b. 1554)
  • July 10 – Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, soldier in Habsburg service (b. 1571)
  • July 13 – Albert VII, Archduke of Austria for a few months in 1619 and (b. 1559)
  • July 19 – Don Giovanni de' Medici, Italian military commander and diplomat (b. 1567)
  • July 30 – Rudolph, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (b. 1576)
  • August 3
    • Guillaume du Vair, French author and lawyer (b. 1556)
    • Anna Juliana Gonzaga, Archduchess of Austria and nun (b. 1566)
  • August 7 – Count Jobst of Limburg (b. 1560)
  • August 13 – John Berchmans, Belgian Jesuit scholastic and saint (b. 1599)
  • August 15 – John Barclay, Scottish writer (b. 1582)
  • August 23 – Antonio il Verso, Italian composer (b. 1565)
  • August 30 – Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī, one of the main co-founders of Isfahan School of Islamic Philosophy (b. 1547)
  • September 7 – Peter Warburton, English Justice of the Common Plea (b. 1540)
  • September 17 – Robert Bellarmine, Italian Roman Catholic bishop, saint, proponent of futurism (b. 1542)
  • September 20 – Henry of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French noble (b. 1578)
  • September 24 – Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Polish military commander (b. 1560)
  • September 25 – Mary Sidney, English writer, patroness and translator (b. 1561)[21]

October–December[]

Paul Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain

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