1620

Years:
1617 1618 1619 - 1620 - 1621 1622 1623
Decades:
1590s 1600s 1610s - 1620s - 1630s 1640s 1650s
Centuries:
16th century - 17th century - 18th century
1620 by topic:
Science - State leaders - Literature - Music

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.
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.

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 @ 1620 births.

See also @ 1620 deaths.