Explore 102 historical events from 1620–1629.
Peter Minuit was a Walloon merchant and politician who was the 3rd director of the Dutch North American colony of New Netherland from 1626 until 1631, and 3rd Governor of New Nethe…
Peter Minuit buys Manhattan
Louis Hennepin, OFM was a Belgian Catholic priest and missionary best known for his activities in North America. A member of the Recollects, a minor branch of the Franciscans, he t…
Louis Hennepin, Flemish priest and missionary (died 1705)
William II was sovereign Prince of Orange and Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, Overijssel and Groningen in the United Provinces of the Netherlands from 14 March …
William II, Prince of Orange (died 1650)
Arthur Lake was Bishop of Bath and Wells and a translator of the King James Version of The Bible.
Arthur Lake, English bishop and scholar (born 1569)
Joan Pau Pujol was a Catalan and Spanish composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque. While best known for his sacred music, he also wrote popular secular music…
Joan Pau Pujol, Catalan organist and composer (born 1570)
Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk,, of Audley End House in the parish of Saffron Walden in Essex, and of Suffolk House near Westminster, a member of the House of Howard, was the s…
Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk (born 1561)
Christian the Younger of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, known as der tolle Halberstädter, was a German Protestant military leader during the early years of the Thirty Years' War. Christia…
Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German Protestant military leader (born 1599)
Scipione Cobelluzzi was an Italian cardinal, archivist and librarian. He was chief archivist of the Vatican Secret Archives, from 17 February 1618 until his death on 29 June 1626.
Scipione Cobelluzzi, Italian cardinal and archivist (born 1564)
Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, was an English courtier, soldier, and landowner. He was chamberlain to Anne of Denmark.
Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (born 1563)
This is a list of directors, appointed by the Dutch West India Company, of the 17th century Dutch province of New Netherland in North America. Only the last, Peter Stuyvesant, held…
Having been appointed the director-general of New Netherland, Peter Minuit arrived in Manhattan
The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976. In conjunction with the Portu…
A combined Spanish and Portuguese fleet of 52 ships commences the recapture of Bahia from the Dutch during the Dutch–Por
Father Afonso Mendes was a Portuguese Jesuit theologian, and Patriarch of Ethiopia from 1622 to 1634. While E. A. Wallis Budge has expressed the commonly accepted opinion of this m…
Afonso Mendes, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Latin Patriarch of Ethiopia, arrives at Beilul from Goa
James VI and I (1566–1625), King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, died on 27 March 1625 at Theobalds, and was buried at Westminster Abbey on 7 May 1625.
State funeral of James VI and I (1566–1625) is held at Westminster Abbey
Charles I was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.
King Charles I of England marries Catholic princess Henrietta Maria of France and Navarre, at Canterbury
Giovanni Domenico Cassini was an Italian-French mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and engineer. Cassini was born in Perinaldo, near Imperia, at that time in the County of Nice,…
Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician and astronomer (died 1712)
Sarah Rapelje was the first European Christian female, the "first white child" born in New Netherland.
Sarah Rapelje, the "first white child" of New Netherland (died 1685)
Samuel Chappuzeau was a French scholar, author, poet and playwright whose best-known work today is Le Théâtre François, a description of French theatre in the seventeenth century.
Samuel Chappuzeau, French scholar (died 1701)
John Fell was an English churchman and influential academic. He served as Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and later concomitantly as Bishop of Oxford.
John Fell, English churchman and influential academic (died 1686)
Jean Hérault, Baron of Gourville was a French adventurer and aristocrat.
Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (died 1703)
Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, was an English military officer, politician and diplomat from Barnwell, Northamptonshire. During the First English Civil War he served with th…
Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich (died 1672)
Maurice of Orange was stadtholder of all the provinces of the Dutch Republic—except Friesland—from 1585 until his death. Prior to inheriting the title Prince of Orange from his eld…
Maurice, Prince of Orange (born 1567)
Honoré d'Urfé, marquis de Valromey, comte de Châteauneuf was a French novelist and miscellaneous writer.
Honoré d'Urfé, French author and poet (born 1568)
Orlando Gibbons was an English composer and keyboard player who was one of the last masters of the English Virginalist School and English Madrigal School. The best known member of …
Orlando Gibbons, English organist and composer (born 1583)
The Dutch–Portuguese War was a global armed conflict involving Dutch forces, in the form of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), the Dutch West India Company, and their allies, agai…
Dutch–Portuguese War: Portuguese and Spanish forces recaptured the Brazilian city of Bahia, which had previously been ca