Explore 163 historical events from 1620–1629.
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)
Sir Edward Villiers was an English nobleman from Leicestershire and member of the Villiers family, whose younger half-brother George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, was a favouri…
Edward Villiers, English noble and politician (born c. 1585)
Johann Schweikhard von Kronberg was the Archbishop-Elector of Mainz from 1604 to 1626.
Johann Schweikhard von Kronberg, German cleric and politician, Archbishop-Elector of Mainz (born 1553)
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
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
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
The Treaty of Southampton was an alliance between England and the Dutch Republic against the Kingdom of Spain. Concluded at Southampton on September 7, 1625, the pact was drawn in …
The Treaty of Southampton makes an alliance between England and the Dutch Republic against Spain.
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)
Rasmus Bartholin was a Danish physician and grammarian.
Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist (died 1698)
Thomas Corneille was a French lexicographer and dramatist.
Thomas Corneille, French playwright and philologist (died 1709)
John Claypole was an English politician and militant who served as an officer in the Parliamentary army in 1645 during the English Civil War. He was appointed as Lord Claypole by O…
John Claypole, English politician (died 1688)
Gregorio Giovanni Gaspare Barbarigo was an Italian cardinal and is venerated as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the Bishop of Bergamo and later as the Bishop of …
Gregorio Barbarigo, Roman Catholic saint (died 1697)
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)