1620

This article is about the year 1620. For the computer, see IBM 1620.

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 by topic:

Arts and Science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1620 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1620 MDCXX
Ab urbe condita	2373
Armenian calendar	1069 ԹՎ ՌԿԹ
Assyrian calendar	6370
Bahá'í calendar	-224–-223
Bengali calendar	1027
Berber calendar	2570
English Regnal year	17 Ja. 1 – 18 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar	2164
Burmese calendar	982
Byzantine calendar	7128–7129
Chinese calendar	己未年十一月廿七日 (4256/4316-11-27) — to — 庚申年十二月初八日 (4257/4317-12-8)
Coptic calendar	1336–1337
Ethiopian calendar	1612–1613
Hebrew calendar	5380–5381
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1676–1677
- Shaka Samvat	1542–1543
- Kali Yuga	4721–4722
Holocene calendar	11620
Iranian calendar	998–999
Islamic calendar	1029–1030
Japanese calendar	Genna 6 (元和6年)
Korean calendar	3953
Minguo calendar	292 before ROC 民前292年
Thai solar calendar	2163

September: Battle of Cecora.

November 8: The Battle of White Mountain.

November 21: Mayflower.

Osaka Castle.

Backside of a violin.

Francis Bacon

Year 1620 (MDCXX) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

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.

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.
  • 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–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.
  • 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.

Date unknown

• A severe frost in England, with the Thames frozen. 13 continuous days of snow in Scotland. On Eskdale Moor only 35 of a flock of 20,000 sheep survive.
• 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).

Births

• February 4 – Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (d. 1667)
• February 5 – Paul Barbette, Dutch physician (d. 1666?)
• February 15 – François Charpentier, French archaeologist (d. 1702)
• February 16 – Friedrich Wilhelm I of Brandenburg (d. 1688)
• March 12 – Johann Heinrich Hottinger, Swiss philologist and theologian (d. 1667)
• April 17 – Marguerite Bourgeoys, French Catholic nun and founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame (d. 1700)
• July 20 – Nikolaes Heinsius the Elder, Dutch scholar (d. 1691)
• July 21 – Jean Picard, French astronomer (d. 1682)
• October 1 – Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Dutch painter (d. 1683)
• October 20 – Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (d. 1691)
• October 31 – John Evelyn, English diarist and writer (d. 1706)
• November 20 – Peregrine White, first English child born at Plymouth Colony (d. 1704)
• December 18 – Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (d. 1668)

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)