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Mayflower was an English sailing ship that transported a group of English families, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620. After 10 weeks at sea, Mayflower, with 102 passengers and a crew of about 30, reached what is today the United States, dropping anchor near the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on November 21 [O.S. November 11], 1620.
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 ...
History of submarines: Cornelis Drebbel demonstrates the first navigable undersea boat in the Thames in England. [14] [15] The modern violin is developed. [citation needed] Juan Pablo Bonet, teacher of deaf children in the Spanish court, creates a sign alphabet. [16] Francis Bacon publishes the Novum Organum (beyond Aristotle's Organon) on ...
1620 – The Pilgrims found the Plymouth Colony. [1] 1622 – Indian massacre of 1622 in Virginia. 1624 – Virginia Company collapses and Virginia becomes a crown colony. Dutch West India Company founds New Netherland. 1624–26 – Dorchester Company founded. 1624–28 – Mohawks defeat the Mahicans.
Plymouth Rock is the historical disembarkation site of the Mayflower Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony in December 1620.. The Pilgrims did not refer to Plymouth Rock in any of their writings; the first known written reference to the rock dates from 1715 when it was described in the town boundary records as "a great rock".
Colonial America: Plymouth Colony 1620 – A short history of Plymouth Colony hosted at U-S-History.com, includes a map of all of the New England colonies. The Plymouth Colony Archive Project Archived March 4, 2013, at the Wayback Machine – A collection of primary sources documents and secondary source analysis related to Plymouth Colony.
As Janney kept reading, she was then shocked by the sight of her 11-times great-grandfather's name signed as a witness on Nov. 11, 1620, on what was essentially one of the earliest expressions of ...
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)