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| Centuries: | 16th century - 17th century - 18th century |
| Decades: | 1590s 1600s 1610s - 1620s - 1630s 1640s 1650s |
| Years: | 1617 1618 1619 - 1620 - 1621 1622 1623 |
| 1620 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1620 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Saturday [1] of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
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Events of 1620
January - June
- February 4 - Prince Bethlen Gabor signs a peace treaty with Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor.
- May 17 - The first merry-go-round is seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey).
- June 3 - The oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, is begun at Quebec City, Quebec Canada.
July - December
- July 3 - Under the terms of the Treaty of Ulm, the Protestant Union declares neutrality and ceases to support Frederick V of Bohemia.
- July 15 - The ship Speedwell departs Delfshaven with the Leiden colonists and Pilgrims.
- August 5 (O.S.) - The Mayflower and Speedwell depart together from Plymouth, England, but the Speedwell starts to leak again and must stop.
- August 7 - The mother of Johannes Kepler is arrested for witchcraft.
- August 7 - Battle of Les Ponts-de-Cé, Poitou: French king Louis XIII defeats his mother Marie de' Medici.
- September 6 (O.S.) - The Mayflower departs from Plymouth, England, on its 3rd attempt without the Speedwell, arriving on November 11 (Old Style date) at Cape Cod (named from Concord voyage of 1602).
- September 17 to October 7 - Battle of Cecora: The Ottoman Empire defeats Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth-Moldavian troops.
- November 3 - The Great Patent is granted to Plymouth Colony.
- November 8 - Thirty Years' War - Battle of White Mountain: Catholic forces are victorious in only two hours near Prague.
- November 21 (N.S.) - The Mayflower arrives inside the tip of Cape Cod, with the Pilgrims and Planters.
- November 21 - Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact (11 November, O.S.).
Undated
- Francis Bacon publishes the Novum Organum (beyond Aristotle's Organon) on logical thinking.
- 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.
- The modern violin is developed.
- Witch hunts begin in Scotland.
- Cornelius Drebbel, at the Thames, builds an undersea boat (history of submarines).
- J.P. Donnet, teacher of deaf children in the Spanish court, creates the sign alphabet.
- Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) continues (principally on the territory of today's Germany).
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1620 MDCXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2373 |
| Armenian calendar | 1069 ԹՎ ՌԿԹ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -224 – -223 |
| Berber calendar | 2570 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2164 |
| Burmese calendar | 982 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7128 – 7129 |
| Chinese calendar | 己未年十一月廿七日 (4256/4316-11-27) — to —
庚申年十二月初八日(4257/4317-12-8) |
| Coptic calendar | 1336 – 1337 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1612 – 1613 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5380 – 5381 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1675 – 1676 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1542 – 1543 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4721 – 4722 |
| Holocene calendar | 11620 |
| Iranian calendar | 998 – 999 |
| Islamic calendar | 1029 – 1030 |
| Japanese calendar | Genna 6 (元和6年) |
| Korean calendar | 3953 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2163 |
- 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 the Elder, 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 at Plymouth Colony (d. 1704)
- December 18 - Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (d. 1668)
- See also Category:1620 births.
Deaths
- February 19 - Roemer Visscher, Dutch writer (b. 1547)
- March 1 - Thomas Campion, English poet and composer (b. 1567)
- March 17 - St. John Sarkander, Moravian priest (injuries caused by torturing) (b. 1576)
- March 25 - Johannes Nucius, German composer (b. c. 1556)
- May 6 - Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1543)
- May 16 - William Adams, English navigator and samurai (b. 1564)
- August 18 - Wanli Emperor of China (b. 1563)
- September 26 - Taichang Emperor of China (b. 1582)
- October 7 - Stanisław Żółkiewski, Polish military leader (b. 1547)
- See also Category:1620 deaths.
Notes
- ^ "Calendar for year 1620 (Russia)" (full Julian calendar), Steffen Thorsen, Time and Date AS, 2007, webpage: Julian1620.
