Explore 207 historical events from 1620–1629.
Louis II de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, known as le Grand Condé, was a French military commander. A tactician and strategist, he is regarded as one of France's greatest generals, par…
Louis, Grand Condé, French general (died 1686)
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)
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)
Kryštof Harant of Polžice and Bezdružice was a nobleman, traveler, humanist, soldier, writer and composer from Bohemia. He joined the Protestant Bohemian Revolt in the Lands of the…
Kryštof Harant, Czech soldier and composer (born 1564)
Thomas Harriot, also spelled Harriott, Hariot or Heriot, was an English astronomer, mathematician, ethnographer and translator to whom the theory of refraction is attributed. Thoma…
Thomas Harriot, English astronomer, mathematician, and ethnographer (born 1560)
Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, 2nd Count of Bucquoy was a military commander who fought for the Spanish Netherlands during the Eighty Years' War and for the Holy Roman Empire du…
Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, French commander (born 1571)
Albert VII was the ruling Archduke of Austria for a few months in 1619 and, jointly with his wife, Isabella Clara Eugenia, sovereign of the Habsburg Netherlands between 1598 and 16…
Albert VII, archduke of Austria (born 1559)
Guillaume du Vair was a French bishop, author, lawyer, Magistrate of the Parliament and Keeper of the Seals of France under French king Louis XIII.
Guillaume du Vair, French lawyer and author (born 1556)
John Barclay was a Scottish writer, satirist and Neo-Latin poet.
John Barclay, Scottish poet and author (born 1582)
Robert Bellarmine was an Italian Jesuit and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was canonized a saint in 1930 and named Doctor of the Church, one of only 27 at the time. He was o…
Robert Bellarmine, Italian cardinal and saint (born 1542)
Baha al-Din al-Amili, commonly known as Sheikh Bahāʾī, was a Twelver Shia Muslim scholar and polymath in Safavid Iran, who composed various works in Arabic and Persian. Closely tie…
Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī, co-founder of Isfahan School of Islamic Philosophy (born 1547)
Jan Karol Chodkiewicz was a Polish–Lithuanian military commander of the Grand Ducal Lithuanian Army, who was from 1601 Field Hetman of Lithuania, and from 1605 Grand Hetman of Lith…
Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Polish commander (born 1560)
Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke was among the first Englishwomen to gain notice for her poetry and her literary patronage. By the age of 39, she was listed with her brother Phil…
Mary Sidney, English writer (born 1561)
Antoine de Montchrestien was a French soldier, dramatist, adventurer and economist.
Antoine de Montchrestien, French soldier, playwright, and economist (born 1575)
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck was a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras. He was among the first ma…
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch organist and composer (born 1562)
Tobacco was long used by various indigenous groups that lived in the Americas. The Columbian exchange introduced tobacco to the Europeans, and it became an addictive, lucrative and…
English crown bans tobacco growing in England, giving the Virginia Company a monopoly in exchange for tax of one shillin
Speedwell was a 60-ton pinnace that carried a band of English Dissenters now popularly called the Pilgrims from Leiden, Holland, to England, whence they intended to sail to America…
Speedwell leaves Delfshaven to bring pilgrims to America by way of England.
Mayflower was an English square-rigged merchant sailing ship, active from before 1609 until 1622. Her tonnage was 180+, and she was 110 feet long and 25 feet in the beam, with seve…
The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England, carrying would-be settlers, on its first attempt to reach North…
The Pilgrims, also known as the Pilgrim Fathers, were the English settlers who traveled to North America on the ship Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony at what now is Pl…
The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16…
Kokkola is a town in Finland and the regional capital of Central Ostrobothnia. It is located on the west coast of the country, on the Gulf of Bothnia. The population of Kokkola is …
The town of Kokkola (Swedish: Karleby) is founded by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.
The Pilgrims, also known as the Pilgrim Fathers, were the English settlers who traveled to North America on the ship Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony at what now is Pl…
Pilgrims set sail for Virginia from Plymouth, England in the Mayflower.
The Polish–Ottoman War (1620–1621) was a conflict between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire over the control of Moldavia. It ended with the Commonwealth wit…
Polish–Ottoman War: The Ottoman Empire defeats the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Battle of Cecora.