Explore 102 historical events from 1620–1629.
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)
Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline was a Scottish lawyer, judge and politician. He served as Lord President of the Court of Session from 1598 to 1604, Lord Chancellor of Scot…
Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, Scottish lawyer, judge, and politician, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (born 1555
Salomon Schweigger was a German Lutheran theologian, minister, anthropologist and orientalist of the 16th century. He provided insights during his travels in the Balkans, Constanti…
Salomon Schweigger, German theologian (born 1551)
William Parker, 13th Baron Morley, 4th Baron Monteagle, was an English peer, best known for his role in the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot. In 1605 Parker was due to attend the op…
William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, English politician (born 1575)
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
Old Town Square execution was the execution of 27 Bohemian leaders of the Bohemian Revolt by the Austrian House of Habsburg that took place on 21 June 1621 at the Old Town Square i…
Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain
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)
Willem van der Zaan was a Dutch Admiral. His name is often given in the 17th century spelling Zaen.
Willem van der Zaan, Dutch Admiral (died 1669)
Jean de La Fontaine was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequ…
Jean de La Fontaine, French author and poet (died 1695)
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, was an English statesman. He held senior political office under both the Commonwealth of England and Charles II, serving as Chancell…
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (died 1683)
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)
Anne de Xainctonge was a French religious sister who founded of the Society of the Sisters of Saint Ursula of the Blessed Virgin. She was declared venerable by the Roman Catholic C…
Anne de Xainctonge, French saint, founded the Society of the Sisters of Saint Ursula of the Blessed Virgin (born 1567)
Louis de Lorraine known as the Cardinal de Guise was the second son of Henry I, Duke of Guise and Catherine of Cleves.
Louis III, Cardinal of Guise (born 1575)
Kryštof Harant of Polžice and Bezdružice was a nobleman, traveler, humanist, soldier, writer and composer from Bohemia. He joined the Protestant Bohemian Revolt in the Lands of the…
Kryštof Harant, Czech soldier and composer (born 1564)
Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, 2nd Count of Bucquoy was a military commander who fought for the Spanish Netherlands during the Eighty Years' War and for the Holy Roman Empire du…
Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, French commander (born 1571)
Albert VII was the ruling Archduke of Austria for a few months in 1619 and, jointly with his wife, Isabella Clara Eugenia, sovereign of the Habsburg Netherlands between 1598 and 16…
Albert VII, archduke of Austria (born 1559)
Thomas Harriot, also spelled Harriott, Hariot or Heriot, was an English astronomer, mathematician, ethnographer and translator to whom the theory of refraction is attributed. Thoma…
Thomas Harriot, English astronomer, mathematician, and ethnographer (born 1560)
Tobacco was long used by various indigenous groups that lived in the Americas. The Columbian exchange introduced tobacco to the Europeans, and it became an addictive, lucrative and…
English crown bans tobacco growing in England, giving the Virginia Company a monopoly in exchange for tax of one shillin
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)