1621

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century 17th century 18th century
Decades:	1600s 1610s 1620s 1630s 1640s
Years:	1618 1619 1620 1621 1622 1623 1624

1621 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1621 MDCXXI
Ab urbe condita	2374
Armenian calendar	1070 ԹՎ ՌՀ
Assyrian calendar	6371
Balinese saka calendar	1542–1543
Bengali calendar	1028
Berber calendar	2571
English Regnal year	18 Ja. 1 – 19 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar	2165
Burmese calendar	983
Byzantine calendar	7129–7130
Chinese calendar	庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 4318 or 4111     — to — 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 4319 or 4112
Coptic calendar	1337–1338
Discordian calendar	2787
Ethiopian calendar	1613–1614
Hebrew calendar	5381–5382
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1677–1678
- Shaka Samvat	1542–1543
- Kali Yuga	4721–4722
Holocene calendar	11621
Igbo calendar	621–622
Iranian calendar	999–1000
Islamic calendar	1030–1031
Japanese calendar	Genna 7 (元和７年)
Javanese calendar	1542–1543
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3954
Minguo calendar	291 before ROC 民前291年
Nanakshahi calendar	153
Thai solar calendar	2163–2164
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.
• 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.
• 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 24 – The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.
• June 3 – The Dutch West India Company is founded.
• 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: The Battle of Neu Titschein is fought; remnants of the Bohemian army manage to hold off the Imperial advance in Silesia for the moment.
• September–October – Battle of Khotyn: Polish troops hold off a large Ottoman army for over a month.
• 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.
• October – The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony and Wampanoags celebrate a harvest feast (3 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.
• November 11 – The ship Fortune arrives at Plymouth Colony, with 35 more settlers.
• December 31 – Thirty Years' War: The Peace of Nikolsburg is signed between Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor and Gabor Bethlen, Prince of Transylvania. Bethlen agreed to renounce his claims to Hungary. In return Bethlen received several counties and lands along the eastern border of the Holy Roman Empire, and Moravia was 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. The king also grants city rights to Luleå, Piteå and Torneå (Tornio). Riga falls under the rule of Sweden.
• The Dutch mathematician and astronomer, Willebrord Snel van Royen (1580–1626), discovers the famous law of refraction, also known as "Snellius' law".
• Tamblot starts the Tamblot Uprising
• The Dutch East India Company sends 2000 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 the Banda islands. The soldiers proceed to massacre most of the 15,000 indigenous inhabitants.

Births

Thomas Willis born 27 January

Lamoral II Claudius Franz, Count of Thurn and Taxis born 14 February

Erzsébet Thurzó born 20 February

William Penn (Royal Navy officer) born 23 April

Rutger von Ascheberg born 2 June

Edward Proger born 16 June

January–March

• January 3 – Claude Maltret, French Jesuit (d. 1674)
• January 16 – Magnus Celsius, Swedish astronomer and mathematician (d. 1679)
• January 27 – Thomas Willis, English doctor who plays 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
  • Lamoral II Claudius Franz, Count of Thurn and Taxis, German nobleman and Postmaster General of the Holy Roman Empire (1646–1676) (d. 1676)
  • 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)
• March 1 – John Alleyn, Cornish politician (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 15 – Georg Neumark, German poet and composer of hymns (d. 1681)
• March 24 – John VI, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1621–1667) (d. 1667)
• 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)

April–June

• April 1 – Guru Tegh Bahadur, 9th Sikh Guru (d. 1675)
• April 7 – Crato, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (1640–1642) (d. 1642)
• April 17
  • Henry Vaughan, Welsh author (d. 1695)
  • Thomas Vaughan, Welsh philosopher (d. 1666)
• April 23
  • Georg Arnold, Austrian musician (d. 1676)
  • William Penn, English admiral and politician (d. 1670)
• April 25 – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, Anglo-Irish soldier, statesman and dramatist (d. 1679)
• May 25 – David Beck, Dutch portrait painter (d. 1656)
• June 1 – Jacob van der Ulft, Dutch painter (d. 1689)
• June 2
  • Rutger von Ascheberg, Courland-born soldier in Swedish service (d. 1693)
  • Jørgen Bjelke, Norwegian officer and nobleman (d. 1696)
  • Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter (d. 1649)
• June 6 – Petar Zrinski, Croatian viceroy (executed 1671)
• June 16 – Edward Proger, Member of Parliament for Brecknockshire (d. 1713)
• June 29 – Willem van der Zaan, Dutch Admiral (d. 1669)

July–September

• July 1 – Cornelis de Man, Dutch painter (d. 1706)
• July 8
  • Jean de La Fontaine, French writer (d. 1695)
  • Leonora Christina Ulfeldt, Danish countess (d. 1698)
• July 22
  • Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician (d. 1683)
  • Thomas Hanford, New England settler and puritan minister (d. 1693)
• July 24 – Jan Andrzej Morsztyn, Polish poet (d. 1693)
• August 12 – Albert d'Orville, Jesuit priest and missionary, cartographer (d. 1662)
• August 13
  • Sir John Pakington, 2nd Baronet, English politician (d. 1680)
  • Israel Silvestre, French topographical etcher (d. 1691)
• August 19 – Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (d. 1674)
• August 22 – Adriaen van Gaesbeeck, Dutch painter of genre subjects and portraits (d. 1650)
• August 28 – Sir Richard Grobham Howe, 2nd Baronet, Member of Parliament of England (d. 1703)
• September 8 – Louis, Grand Condé, French general (d. 1686)
• September 9 – Henry X, Count of Reuss-Lobenstein, Rector of the University of Leipzig (d. 1671)

October–December

• October 3 – Friedrich Werner, German musician (d. 1660)
• October 8 – Maximilian Henry of Bavaria, Roman Catholic bishop (d. 1688)
• October 18 – Michael Angelo Immenraet, Flemish painter (d. 1683)
• October 20 – Şehzade Ömer, Ottoman prince (d. 1622)
• October 21
  • Nicholas Barré, French Minim friar, priest and founder (d. 1686)
  • Richard Standish, English politician (d. 1662)
• October 23 – Lord John Stewart, Scottish aristocrat, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (d. 1644)
• October 24 – Serafina of God, founder of seven Carmelite monasteries of nuns in southern Italy (d. 1699)
• November 11 – Israel Tonge, English churchman and anti-Catholic conspirator (d. 1680)
• November 15
  • Cornelis Geelvinck, Dutch mayor (d. 1689)
  • Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough, English diplomat (d. 1697)
• December 3 – Bohuslav Balbín, Czech writer and Jesuit (d. 1688)
• December 10 – Christian Albert, Burgrave and Count of Dohna, German nobleman and general in the army of Brandenburg (d. 1677)
• December 12 – Gerard Pietersz Hulft, Dutch general (d. 1656)
• December 23
  • Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English politician (d. 1682)
  • Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate whose mysterious death caused anti-Catholic uproar in England (d. 1678)
• Approximate date – Richard Allestree, English churchman and provost of Eton College (d. 1681)
• Françoise-Marie Jacquelin, Acadian heroine (d. 1645)

Deaths

Pope Paul V died 28 January

Pietro Aldobrandini died 10 February

Guillaume du Vair died 3 August

John Barclay (poet) died 15 August

Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī died 30 August

Paul Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain died 21 October

Catherine Stenbock died 13 December

January–March

• January 15 – Christopher Pickering, British politician (b. 1556)
• January 28 – Pope Paul V (b. 1552)
• January 29 – Francis Taylor, Mayor of Dublin (b. c. 1550)
• February 10 – Pietro Aldobrandini, Italian Cardinal and patron of the arts (b. 1571)
• February 15 – Michael Praetorius, German composer (b. 1571)
• February 16 – Sir Thomas Gerard, 1st Baronet, Member of the Parliament of England (b. 1560)
• February 28 – Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1590)
• March 4 – Ana de Jesús, Spanish Discalced Carmelite nun and spiritual writer (b. 1545)
• March 8 – Enevold Kruse, Danish noble (b. 1554)
• March 27 – Benedetto Giustiniani, Catholic cardinal (b. 1554)
• March 31 – King Philip III of Spain, (Philip II of Portugal) (b. 1578)

April–June

• April 1 – Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (b. 1577)
• April 6
  • Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria (b. 1574)
  • Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford (b. 1539)
• April 15 – John Carver, first governor of Plymouth Colony
• April 18 – Bridget Chaworth, English noble (b. 1542)
• April 21 – Anne of Ostfriesland, German noblewoman (b. 1562)
• May 3 – Elizabeth Bacon, English Tudor gentlewoman (b. 1541)
• May 11 – Johann Arndt, German theologian (b. 1555)
• May 15 – Hendrick de Keyser, Dutch architect and sculptor (b. 1565)
• June 2 – Dorothea of Lorraine (b. 1545)
• June 8 – Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (b. 1567)
• June 21
  • Kryštof Harant z Polžic a Bezdružic, Bohemian composer, soldier, and author (executed) (b. 1564)
  • Maxmilián Hošťálek, Czech noble and politician (b. 1564)
  • Joachim Andreas von Schlick, Czech leader (b. 1569)
• June 23 – Zsigmond Forgách, Hungarian noble and soldier (b. 1559)
• June 26 – Christence Kruckow, Danish noble (b. 1558)

July–September

• 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 30 – Rudolph, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (b. 1576)
• August 3 – Guillaume du Vair, French author and lawyer (b. 1556)
• 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, Justice of the Common Plea (b. 1540)
• September 17 – Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (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)

October–December

• October 8 – Antoine de Montchrestien, French dramatist and economist (b. c. 1575)
• October 11 – Andrzej Sapieha, Polish nobleman (b. 1539)
• October 16 – Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer (b. 1562)
• October 19 – Imre Thurzó, Hungarian noble (b. 1598)
• October 21 – Paul Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain, French politician (b. 1569)
• November 26 – Ralph Agas, English surveyor (b. c. 1540)
• December 4 – Andrew Willet, English theologian (b. 1562)
• December 13 – Katarina Stenbock, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1535)
• December 15 – Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes, Constable of France (b. 1578)