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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: ... promising them the free exercise of their religion without persecution. ... 1620. Aelbert Cuyp Winston Churchill John Evelyn.
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)
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.
September 6 – Thomas Middleton is appointed chronologer of the City of London. [1]December 16 – The Book of Psalmes: Englished both in Prose and Metre with Annotations by Henry Ainsworth is the only book taken to New England by the Pilgrim Fathers.
1620: 90-100 English women are enlisted as Tobacco brides to help the gender inequality and family gap of Jamestown [5] November 11, 1620: About 100 pilgrims arrive on the Mayflower to Provincetown Harbor, Cape Cod
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.
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.