1620
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 16th century – 17th century – 18th century |
| Decades: | 1590s 1600s 1610s – 1620s – 1630s 1640s 1650s |
| Years: | 1617 1618 1619 – 1620 – 1621 1622 1623 |
| 1620 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – |
| Art – Literature – Music – Science |
| Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Births – Deaths – Works |
Year 1620 (MDCXX) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Saturday [1] of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1620
[edit] 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, Quebec Canada.
[edit] 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.
- July 15 – The ship Speedwell departs Delfshaven with the Leiden colonists and Pilgrims.
- August 5 (O.S.) – The Mayflower and Speedwell depart together from Plymouth, England, but the Speedwell starts to leak again and must stop.
- August 7 – The mother of Johannes Kepler is arrested for witchcraft.
- August 7 – Battle of Les Ponts-de-Cé, Poitou: French king Louis XIII defeats his mother Marie de' Medici.
- August 8 – Mysterious rain of frogs in Weil der Stadt
- September 6 (O.S.) – The Mayflower departs from Plymouth, England, on its 3rd attempt without the Speedwell, arriving on November 11 (Old Style date) at Cape Cod (named from Concord voyage of 1602).
- September 17 to October 7 – Battle of Cecora: The Ottoman Empire defeats Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth–Moldavian troops.
- October 6 – The Roman Catholic Ras Sela Kristos, half-brother of the Emperor Susenyos crushes a group of rebels in at Mount Amedamit in Gojjam, 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.
- November 21 (N.S.) – The Mayflower arrives inside the tip of Cape Cod, with the Pilgrims and Planters.
- November 21 – Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact (11 November, O.S.).
- December 21 – Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
[edit] Undated
- Francis Bacon publishes the Novum Organum (beyond Aristotle's Organon) on logical thinking.
- Two officers of the British East India Company attempt to claim the Table Mountain region (in present-day South Africa) for England, but fail.
- Shogun Tokugawa Hidetada restores Osaka Castle. Its current appearance dates from this remodeling.
- The modern violin is developed.
- Witch hunts begin in Scotland.
- Cornelius Drebbel, at the Thames, builds an undersea boat (history of submarines).
- J.P. Donnet, teacher of deaf children in the Spanish court, creates the sign alphabet.
- Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) continues (principally on the territory of today's Germany).
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[edit] Deaths
- February 19 – Roemer Visscher, Dutch writer (b. 1547)
- March 1 – Thomas Campion, English poet and composer (b. 1567)
- March 17 – St. John Sarkander, Moravian priest (injuries caused by torturing) (b. 1576)
- March 25 – Johannes Nucius, German composer (b. c. 1556)
- May 6 – Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1543)
- May 16 – William Adams, English navigator and samurai (b. 1564)
- August 18 – Wanli Emperor of China (b. 1563)
- September 26 – Taichang Emperor of China (b. 1582)
- October 7 – Stanisław Żółkiewski, Polish military leader (b. 1547)
- See also Category:1620 deaths.
[edit] Notes
- ^ "Calendar for year 1620 (Russia)" (full Julian calendar), Steffen Thorsen, Time and Date AS, 2007, webpage: Julian1620.
