Explore 207 historical events from 1620–1629.
Orlando Gibbons was an English composer and keyboard player who was one of the last masters of the English Virginalist School and English Madrigal School. The best known member of …
Orlando Gibbons, English organist and composer (born 1583)
Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouche was an English diplomat. He is remembered chiefly for his lone vote against the condemnation of Mary, Queen of Scots, and for organising the sta…
Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouche, English diplomat (born 1556)
Sir Thomas Smythe was an English merchant, politician and colonial administrator. He was the first governor of the East India Company and treasurer of the Virginia Company from 160…
Thomas Smythe, English diplomat (born 1558)
Thomas Dempster was a Scottish scholar and historian. Born into the aristocracy in Aberdeenshire, which comprises regions of both the Scottish Highlands and the Scottish Lowlands, …
Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian and scholar (born 1579)
Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet, was born at Barntrup in Westphalia.
Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (born 1555)
The Dutch–Portuguese War was a global armed conflict involving Dutch forces, in the form of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), the Dutch West India Company, and their allies, agai…
Dutch–Portuguese War: Portuguese and Spanish forces recaptured the Brazilian city of Bahia, which had previously been ca
The Treaty of Compiègne, signed on 10 June 1624, was a mutual defence alliance between the Kingdom of France and the Dutch Republic, for an initial period of three years.
Signing of the Treaty of Compiègne between France and the Netherlands
Charles de La Vieuville first styled Marquis of La Vieuville but later created 1st Duke of La Vieuville was an important French noble and Superintendent of Finances of France from …
Charles de La Vieuville is arrested and replaced by Cardinal Richelieu as the French king's chief advisor.
Louis XIII was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown.
The French king Louis XIII appoints Cardinal Richelieu as prime minister.
Hiob or Job Ludolf, also known as Job Leutholf, was a German orientalist, born at Erfurt. Edward Ullendorff rates Ludolf as having "the most illustrious name in Ethiopic scholarshi…
Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist and philologist (died 1704)
Jean Regnault de Segrais was a French poet and novelist born in Caen. He was elected a member of the Académie française in 1662.
Jean Regnault de Segrais, French author and poet (died 1701)
François de la Chaise, also known as Père Lachaise, was a French Jesuit priest, the father confessor of King Louis XIV of France.
François de la Chaise, French priest (died 1709)
Zheng Chenggong, also romanized in Taiwan as Cheng Cheng-kung, born Zheng Sen (鄭森) and better known internationally by his honorific title Koxinga (國姓爺), was a Southern Ming genera…
Koxinga, Chinese-Japanese Ming loyalist (died 1662)
Thomas Sydenham was an English physician. He was the author of Observationes Medicae (1676) which became a standard textbook of medicine for two centuries so that he became known a…
Thomas Sydenham, English physician and author (died 1689)
Paul Pellisson was a French writer, associated with the Baroque Précieuses movement.
Paul Pellisson, French historian and author (died 1693)
Diego Ramírez de Arellano was a Spanish sailor and cosmographer. He achieved fame for piloting the Garcia de Nodal expedition to the region of the Strait of Magellan. The expeditio…
Diego Ramírez de Arellano, Spanish sailor and cosmographer (born c
Esmé Stewart, 3rd Duke of Lennox, KG, 7th Seigneur d'Aubigny, lord of the Manor of Cobham, Kent, was a Scottish nobleman and through his paternal lines was a second cousin of King …
Esmé Stewart, 3rd Duke of Lennox, British nobleman (born 1579)
The Thirty Years' War, fought primarily in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648, was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history. An estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldie…
Thirty Years' War: France and the Dutch Republic concluded the Treaty of Compiègne, a mutual defence alliance
Wilhelmus Hendricksen Beekman – also known as William Beekman and Willem Beekman – was a Dutch emigrant who came to New Amsterdam from the Netherlands on May 27, 1647 in the same v…
Wilhelmus Beekman, Dutch politician (died 1707)
Francis-Xavier de Montmorency-Laval, commonly referred to as François de Laval, was considered the founder of the Catholic faith in New France. He was a French Catholic prelate who…
François de Laval, French-Canadian bishop and saint (died 1708)
Sir William Petty was an English economist, physician, scientist and philosopher. He first became prominent serving Oliver Cromwell and the Commonwealth in Ireland. He developed ef…
William Petty, English economist and philosopher (died 1687)
John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, PC, was an English nobleman from the Egerton family.
John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (died 1686)
Cornelis de Witt was a Dutch States Navy officer and statesman. During the First Stadtholderless Period, De Witt was an influential member of the Dutch States Party, and was oppose…
Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician (died 1672)
Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer.
Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and physicist (died 1662)