Explore 51 historical events from 1620–1629.
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)
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
Diego Ramírez de Arellano was a Spanish sailor and cosmographer. He achieved fame for piloting the Garcia de Nodal expedition to the region of the Strait of Magellan. The expeditio…
Diego Ramírez de Arellano, Spanish sailor and cosmographer (born c
Wilhelmus Hendricksen Beekman – also known as William Beekman and Willem Beekman – was a Dutch emigrant who came to New Amsterdam from the Netherlands on May 27, 1647 in the same v…
Wilhelmus Beekman, Dutch politician (died 1707)
Francis-Xavier de Montmorency-Laval, commonly referred to as François de Laval, was considered the founder of the Catholic faith in New France. He was a French Catholic prelate who…
François de Laval, French-Canadian bishop and saint (died 1708)
Sir William Petty was an English economist, physician, scientist and philosopher. He first became prominent serving Oliver Cromwell and the Commonwealth in Ireland. He developed ef…
William Petty, English economist and philosopher (died 1687)
John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, PC, was an English nobleman from the Egerton family.
John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (died 1686)
Mariam-uz-Zamani, commonly known by the misnomer Jodha Bai, was the chief consort, principal wife and the favourite wife of the third Mughal emperor, Akbar. She was also the longes…
Mariam-uz-Zamani, Empress of the Mughal Empire (born 1542)
Claes Rålamb was a Swedish statesman. In 1660 he was appointed Governor of Uppland County and in 1664 he served in the Privy Council. Between 1673 and 1678, he served as the Govern…
Claes Rålamb, Swedish politician (died 1698)
Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac et de Palluau was a French soldier, courtier, and Governor General of New France in North America from 1672 to 1682, and again from 1689 to his d…
Louis de Buade de Frontenac, French-Canadian soldier and politician, third Governor General of New France (died 1698)
Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac et de Palluau was a French soldier, courtier, and Governor General of New France in North America from 1672 to 1682, and again from 1689 to his d…
Louis de Buade de Frontenac, French soldier and governor (died 1698)
Fidelis of Sigmaringen, OFM Cap. was a German Capuchin friar who was involved in the Catholic Counter-Reformation. He was martyred by his opponents at Seewis im Prättigau, now part…
Fidelis of Sigmaringen, German friar and saint (born 1577)
Osman II, also known as Osman the Young, was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 26 February 1618 until his regicide on 20 May 1622.
Osman II, Ottoman sultan (born 1604)
Baron Péter Révay de Szklabina et Blathnicza was a Hungarian nobleman, Royal Crown Guard for the Holy Crown of Hungary, poet, state official, soldier, and historian. He was the gra…
Péter Révay, Hungarian soldier and historian (born 1568)
The Capture of Hormuz was a combined Anglo-Persian expedition that successfully captured the Portuguese fortress at Hormuz Island after a ten-week siege, thus opening up Persian tr…
Anglo-Persian forces combined to capture the Portuguese garrison at Hormuz Island in the Persian Gulf
The Protestant Union, also known as the Evangelical Union, Union of Auhausen, German Union or the Protestant Action Party, was a coalition of Protestant German states. It was forme…
The Protestant Union is formally dissolved
The Chartered West India Company, commonly known as the Dutch West India Company, was a Dutch chartered company that was founded in 1621 and went defunct in 1792. Among its founder…
The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherland
Admiral Sir William Penn was an English naval officer and politician who represented Weymouth and Melcombe Regis in the House of Commons of England from 1660 to 1670. He was the fa…
William Penn, English admiral and politician (died 1670)
Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, 25 April 1621 to 16 October 1679, was an Anglo-Irish soldier and politician. A younger son of the Earl of Cork, the largest landowner in Munster, l…
Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, English soldier and politician (died 1679)
Count Rutger von Ascheberg, also known as Roger von Ascheberg was a Swedish soldier born in Courland, an officer and civil servant who served as Lieutenant General in 1670, General…
Rutger von Ascheberg, Courland-born soldier in Swedish service (died 1693)
Isaac van Ostade was a Dutch genre and landscape painter.
(baptized) Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter (died 1649)
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)
Marguerite Bourgeoys, CND, was a French religious sister and founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal in the colony of New France, now part of Québec, Canada.
Marguerite Bourgeoys, French-Canadian nun and saint, founded the Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal (died 1700)