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1620 23 January – John Croke, judge and Speaker of the House of Commons (born 1553) 1 March – Thomas Campion, poet and composer (born 1567) 16 May – William Adams, navigator and samurai (born 1564) 1621 3 May – Elizabeth Bacon, aristocrat (born c. 1541) 2 July – Thomas Harriot, astronomer and mathematician (born c. 1560)
1620 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1620th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 620th year of the 2nd millennium, the 20th year of the 17th century, and the 1st year of the 1620s decade. As of the start of 1620, the ...
January 19 – Abbas the Great, one of the greatest rulers in Iranian history and the most powerful of the Safavid dynasty Shahs, dies after a reign of more than 40 years. January 28 – Sam Mirza , son of the late Mohammad Baqer Mirza and grandson of Abbas the Great , is crowned as the new Shah of Persia and takes the regnal name Safi.
The Bohemian Revolt (German: Böhmischer Aufstand; Czech: České stavovské povstání; 1618–1620) was an uprising of the Bohemian estates against the rule of the Habsburg dynasty that began the Thirty Years' War. It was caused by both religious and power disputes.
The Patuxet were wiped out by a series of plagues that decimated the indigenous peoples of southeastern New England in the second decade of the 17th century. The epidemics which swept across New England and the Canadian Maritimes between 1614 and 1620 were especially devastating to the Wampanoag and neighboring Massachusett, with mortality reaching 100% in many mainland villages.
The frontispiece of Mourt's Relation, published in London in 1622. The booklet Mourt's Relation (full title: A Relation or Journal of the Beginning and Proceedings of the English Plantation Settled at Plimoth in New England) was written between November 1620 and November 1621, and describes in detail what happened from the landing of the Mayflower Pilgrims on Cape Cod in Provincetown Harbor ...
King James VI and I grants William Alexander of Scotland a royal charter to colonize Acadia, a region that includes part of modern-day Southeastern Canada and the U.S. state of Maine, in an effort to establish a Scottish colonial empire in the New World.
2 January – Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet, Lord Mayor of London (died 1733) 13 January – Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, politician (died 1694) 16 January – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 2nd Earl of Shaftesbury, politician (died 1699) 3 March – Thomas Otway, dramatist (died 1685)