Explore 137 historical events from 1620–1629.
The Battle of Macau in 1622 was a conflict of the Dutch–Portuguese War fought in the Portuguese settlement of Macau, in southeastern China. The Portuguese, outnumbered and without …
Battle of Macau: The Dutch make a failed attempt to capture Macau
Tjerk Hiddes de Vries was a Dutch States Navy officer. The French, who could not pronounce his name, called him Kiërkides. His name was also given as Tsjerk, Tierck or Tjerck.
Tjerk Hiddes de Vries, Dutch admiral (died 1666)
Fidelis of Sigmaringen, OFM Cap. was a German Capuchin friar who was involved in the Catholic Counter-Reformation. He was martyred by his opponents at Seewis im Prättigau, now part…
Fidelis of Sigmaringen, German friar and saint (born 1577)
Osman II, also known as Osman the Young, was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 26 February 1618 until his regicide on 20 May 1622.
Osman II, Ottoman sultan (born 1604)
Baron Péter Révay de Szklabina et Blathnicza was a Hungarian nobleman, Royal Crown Guard for the Holy Crown of Hungary, poet, state official, soldier, and historian. He was the gra…
Péter Révay, Hungarian soldier and historian (born 1568)
Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline was a Scottish lawyer, judge and politician. He served as Lord President of the Court of Session from 1598 to 1604, Lord Chancellor of Scot…
Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, Scottish lawyer, judge, and politician, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (born 1555
Salomon Schweigger was a German Lutheran theologian, minister, anthropologist and orientalist of the 16th century. He provided insights during his travels in the Balkans, Constanti…
Salomon Schweigger, German theologian (born 1551)
William Parker, 13th Baron Morley, 4th Baron Monteagle, was an English peer, best known for his role in the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot. In 1605 Parker was due to attend the op…
William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, English politician (born 1575)
Don Juan de Tassis y Peralta, 2nd Count of Villamediana was a Spanish poet of the Baroque Culteranismo school. In Spain he is simply known as Conde de Villamediana.
Juan de Tassis, 2nd Count of Villamediana, Spanish poet and politician (born 1582)
The Capture of Hormuz was a combined Anglo-Persian expedition that successfully captured the Portuguese fortress at Hormuz Island after a ten-week siege, thus opening up Persian tr…
Anglo-Persian forces combined to capture the Portuguese garrison at Hormuz Island in the Persian Gulf
The Protestant Union, also known as the Evangelical Union, Union of Auhausen, German Union or the Protestant Action Party, was a coalition of Protestant German states. It was forme…
The Protestant Union is formally dissolved
The Chartered West India Company, commonly known as the Dutch West India Company, was a Dutch chartered company that was founded in 1621 and went defunct in 1792. Among its founder…
The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherland
Old Town Square execution was the execution of 27 Bohemian leaders of the Bohemian Revolt by the Austrian House of Habsburg that took place on 21 June 1621 at the Old Town Square i…
Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain
Admiral Sir William Penn was an English naval officer and politician who represented Weymouth and Melcombe Regis in the House of Commons of England from 1660 to 1670. He was the fa…
William Penn, English admiral and politician (died 1670)
Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, 25 April 1621 to 16 October 1679, was an Anglo-Irish soldier and politician. A younger son of the Earl of Cork, the largest landowner in Munster, l…
Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, English soldier and politician (died 1679)
Count Rutger von Ascheberg, also known as Roger von Ascheberg was a Swedish soldier born in Courland, an officer and civil servant who served as Lieutenant General in 1670, General…
Rutger von Ascheberg, Courland-born soldier in Swedish service (died 1693)
Isaac van Ostade was a Dutch genre and landscape painter.
(baptized) Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter (died 1649)
Willem van der Zaan was a Dutch Admiral. His name is often given in the 17th century spelling Zaen.
Willem van der Zaan, Dutch Admiral (died 1669)
Jean de La Fontaine was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequ…
Jean de La Fontaine, French author and poet (died 1695)
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, was an English statesman. He held senior political office under both the Commonwealth of England and Charles II, serving as Chancell…
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (died 1683)
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout was a Dutch Golden Age painter and a favourite student of Rembrandt. He was also an etcher, an amateur poet, a collector and an adviser on art.
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter, etcher, and poet (died 1674)
Elizabeth Bacon was an English aristocrat. She is presumed to have been the Lady Neville of My Ladye Nevells Booke, an important manuscript of keyboard music by William Byrd, which…
Elizabeth Bacon, English Tudor gentlewoman (born 1541)
Anne de Xainctonge was a French religious sister who founded of the Society of the Sisters of Saint Ursula of the Blessed Virgin. She was declared venerable by the Roman Catholic C…
Anne de Xainctonge, French saint, founded the Society of the Sisters of Saint Ursula of the Blessed Virgin (born 1567)
Louis de Lorraine known as the Cardinal de Guise was the second son of Henry I, Duke of Guise and Catherine of Cleves.
Louis III, Cardinal of Guise (born 1575)