1620

Millennium:	2nd millennium
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 (MDCXX) 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).

Contents 1 Places 2 Events of 1620 2.1 January–June 2.2 July–December 2.3 Undated 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 References

Places

• A severe frost in England, with the Thames frozen. 13 continuous days of snow in Scotland. On Eskdale Moor only 35 of a flock of 20,000 sheep survived.^[2]

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.
• August 8 – Mysterious rain of frogs in Weil der Stadt
• 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.
• October 6 – The Roman Catholic Ras Sela Kristos, half-brother of the Emperor Susenyos crushes a group of rebels in at Mount Amedamit in Gojjam, who were opposed to Susenyos' pro-Catholic beliefs.

• 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.).
• December 21 – Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

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).

1620 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1620 MDCXX
Ab urbe condita	2373
Armenian calendar	1069 ԹՎ ՌԿԹ
Bahá'í calendar	-224 – -223
Bengali calendar	1027
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
- Bikram Samwat	1676 – 1677
- 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

Births

• February 4 – Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (d. 1667)
• February 5 – Paul Barbette, Dutch physician (d. 1666?)
• 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)
• April 17 – Marguerite Bourgeoys, French Catholic nun and founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame (d. 1700)
• 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.

References