Explore 163 historical events from 1620–1629.
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)
Don Juan de Tassis y Peralta, 2nd Count of Villamediana was a Spanish poet of the Baroque Culteranismo school. In Spain he is simply known as Conde de Villamediana.
Juan de Tassis, 2nd Count of Villamediana, Spanish poet and politician (born 1582)
Denis Godefroy was a French jurist, a member of the noted Godefroy family. He worked in France and Germany.
Denis Godefroy, French lawyer and jurist (born 1549)
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)
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout was a Dutch Golden Age painter and a favourite student of Rembrandt. He was also an etcher, an amateur poet, a collector and an adviser on art.
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter, etcher, and poet (died 1674)
Louis II de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, known as le Grand Condé, was a French military commander. A tactician and strategist, he is regarded as one of France's greatest generals, par…
Louis, Grand Condé, French general (died 1686)
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)
Guillaume du Vair was a French bishop, author, lawyer, Magistrate of the Parliament and Keeper of the Seals of France under French king Louis XIII.
Guillaume du Vair, French lawyer and author (born 1556)
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)