1620

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Years: 1617 1618 1619 - 1620 - 1621 1622 1623

Decades: 1590s 1600s 1610s - 1620s - 1630s 1640s 1650s

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1620 in various calendars Gregorian calendar 1620 MDCXX Ab urbe condita 2373 Armenian calendar 1069 ԹՎ ՌԿԹ Assyrian calendar 6370 Balinese saka calendar 1541–1542 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 (Earth Goat) 4317 or 4110     — to — 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 4318 or 4111 Coptic calendar 1336–1337 Discordian calendar 2786 Ethiopian calendar 1612–1613 Hebrew calendar 5380–5381 Hindu calendars  - Vikram Samvat 1676–1677  - Shaka Samvat 1541–1542  - Kali Yuga 4720–4721 Holocene calendar 11620 Igbo calendar 620–621 Iranian calendar 998–999 Islamic calendar 1029–1030 Japanese calendar Genna 6 (元和６年) Javanese calendar 1540–1542 Julian calendar Gregorian minus 10 days Korean calendar 3953 Minguo calendar 292 before ROC 民前292年 Nanakshahi calendar 152 Thai solar calendar 2162–2163 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

Events

• September 6 - English emigrants on the Mayflower depart from Plymouth, England for the future New England and arrive at the end of the year. The Mayflower Compact is signed on November 11.
• September 17 to October 7 - The Battle of Cecora between Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth-Moldavian troops and the Ottoman Empire, ending in a major victory for the Ottomans.
• November 8 - The Battle of White Mountain, the first battle in the Thirty Years' War, takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours.
• Francis Bacon publishes the Novum Organum
• 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.
• Modern violin
• Witch hunts begin in Scotland.
• Cornelius Drebbel builds an undersea boat.
• J.P.Donnet, teacher of deaf children in the Spanish court, creates sign alphabet.
• Bonesetting becomes a science.

Births

• February 4 - Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (d. 1667)
• 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)
• July 20 - Nikolaes Heinsius, 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 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (d. 1704)
• December 18 - Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (d. 1668)

See also Category:1620 births.

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, died of injuries caused by torturing
• March 25 - Johannes Nucius, German composer
• 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.