1620
*
September 6 -
English emigrants on the
Mayflower depart from
Plymouth,
England for the future
New England and arrive at the end of the year. The
Mayflower Compact is signed on
November 11.
*
September 17 to
October 7 - The
Battle of Cecora between
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth-
Moldavian troops and the
Ottoman Empire, ending in a major victory for the Ottomans.
*
November 8 - The
Battle of White Mountain, the first battle in the
Thirty Years' War, takes place near
Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours.
*
Francis Bacon publishes the
Novum Organum* Two officers of the
British East India Company attempt to claim the Table Mountain region (in present-day
South Africa) for
England, but fail.
* Shogun
Tokugawa Hidetada restores
Osaka Castle. Its current appearance dates from this remodeling.
* Modern
violin*
Witch hunts begin in
Scotland.
*
Cornelius Drebbel builds an undersea boat.
*
J.P.Donnet, teacher of deaf children in the Spanish court, creates sign alphabet.
*
Bonesetting becomes a science.
*
February 4 -
Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (d.
1667)
*
February 15 -
François Charpentier, French archaeologist (d.
1702)
*
February 16 -
Friedrich Wilhelm I of Brandenburg (d.
1688)
*
March 12 -
Johann Heinrich Hottinger, Swiss philologist and theologian (d.
1667)
*
July 20 -
Nikolaes Heinsius, Dutch scholar (d.
1691)
*
July 21 -
Jean Picard, French astronomer (d.
1682)
*
October 1 -
Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Dutch painter (d.
1683)
*
October 20 -
Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (d.
1691)
*
October 31 -
John Evelyn, English diarist and writer (d.
1706)
*
November 20 -
Peregrine White, first English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (d.
1704)
*
December 18 -
Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (d.
1668)
See also :Category:1620 births.*
February 19 -
Roemer Visscher, Dutch writer (b.
1547)
*
March 1 -
Thomas Campion, English poet and composer (b.
1567)
*
March 17 -
St. John Sarkander,
Moravian priest, died of injuries caused by
torturing*
March 25 -
Johannes Nucius, German composer
*
May 6 -
Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b.
1543)
*
May 16 -
William Adams, English navigator and samurai (b.
1564)
*
August 18 -
Wanli Emperor of China (b.
1563)
*
September 26 -
Taichang Emperor of China (b.
1582)
*
October 7 -
Stanisław Żółkiewski, Polish military leader (b.
1547)
See also :Category:1620 deaths.
