Today in History for Year 1621

Months in Year 1621: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 29 of 29

Jan 13th - Jan Pieterszoon Coen's fleet sets sail to Moluccas (from Jacarta)
Feb 9th - Alexander Ludovisi is elected Pope Gregory XV (-1623)
Feb 17th - Miles Standish appointed 1st commander of Plymouth colony
Mar 4th - Jacarta, Java renamed Batavia
Mar 7th - John Pieterszoon Coen's troops land on Lontor, East Indies
Mar 16th - Native American chief visits colony of Plymouth Mass
Mar 22nd - Hugo de Grote escapes in bookcase from Loevenstein castle, Neth
Apr 5th - Mayflower sails from Plymouth on a return trip to England
Apr 9th - Spain & Netherlands 12 Year Resistant Pact ends
Apr 15th - Hugo the Great arrives in France
May 3rd - Francis Bacon accused of bribery
May 24th - The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.
May 31st - Sir Francis Bacon thrown into Tower of London for 1 night
Jun 3rd - Dutch West India Company (WIC) receives charter for The West Indies (included, The Americas, Caribbean and West Africa)
Jun 19th - Battle at Dragetsani: Turkish army beats Greece
Jun 25th - French government army occupies Fort St Jean d'Angély at La Rochelle
Jul 6th - Dutch gov-gen John Pieterszoon Coen takes Banda-islands, 15,000 die
Sep 15th - Swedish troops occupy Riga
Sep 21st - King James of England gives Canada to Sir Alexander Sterling
Statesman/Philosopher Francis Bacon Sep 28th - Battle at Chocim Dniester: King Sigismund II beats Turks
Oct 9th - Turkey & Poland signs Peace of Chotin
Oct 25th - Gov Bradford of US colony Plymouth disallows sport on Christmas Day
Nov 19th - Rabbi Isaiah b Abraham aha-Levi Horowitz arrives in Israel
Dec 3rd - Galileo invents telescope
Dec 13th - Emperor Ferdinand II delegates 1st anti-Reformation decree
Dec 18th - English parliament accept unanimously, Protestation
Dec 25th - Gov William Bradford of Plymouth forbids game playing on Christmas
Dec 30th - English king James I cracks Protestation of Parliament
Dec 31st - Hungarian King Bethlen Gabor/Ferdinand II sign Treaty of Mikulov

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 17 of 17

Jan 27th - Thomas Willis, English physician (d. 1675)
Feb 2nd - Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian-born humanist (d. 1679)
Mar 7th - Georg Neumark, composer
Mar 28th - Heinrich Schwemmer, composer
Mar 31st - Andrew Marvell, England, poet (To His Coy Mistress)
Apr 23rd - William Penn, English admiral (d. 1670)
Apr 25th - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (d. 1679)
Jul 8th - Jean de la Fontaine, French poet (Fables)
Jul 22nd - Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury/minister (1660-73)
Aug 19th - Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (d. 1674)
Sep 5th - Juan Andrés Coloma, Spanish noble (d. 1694)
Sep 8th - Louis II Condé, [Great Condé], duke of Bourbon (Rocroy)
Oct 8th - Maximilian H of Bayern, prince-bishop of Liege/bishop of Hildesheim
Nov 3rd - Renatus Rapinus, [René Rapin], French jesuit/poet (Hortorum libri IV)
Nov 20th - Avvakum, Russian priest and writer (d. 1682)
Dec 23rd - Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (d. 1678)
Dec 23rd - Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1682)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 22 of 22

Jan 28th - Pope Paul V, [Camillo Borghese], 233rd pope (1605-21), dies at 68
Feb 15th - Michael Praetorius, German composer (In Dulce Jubilo), dies at 50
Feb 28th - Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1590)
Mar 31st - Philip III, King of Spain (1598-1621), dies at 42
Apr 1st - Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (b. 1577)
Apr 15th - John Carver, first governor of Plymouth Colony
May 15th - Henrick de Keyser, Amsterdam's master builder, dies at 56
Jun 8th - Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (b. 1567)
Jun 21st - Kryštof Harant, Polish soldier, writer, and composer (b. 1564)
Jul 2nd - Thomas Harriot, English astronomer
Jul 10th - Karel Bonaventura Buquoy, French soldier (b. 1571)
Jul 13th - Albrecht/Albertus, archduke of Austria, dies at 61
Aug 3rd - Guillaume du Vair, French writer (b. 1556)
Aug 15th - John Barclay, Scottish writer (b. 1582)
Sep 17th - Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (b. 1542)
Sep 24th - Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Polish military commander (b. 1560)
Oct 8th - Antoine de Montchrétien, French dramatist
Oct 16th - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, organist/composer, dies at about 59
Nov 26th - Radulph Agas, English surveyor (C. 1540)
Dec 13th - Katarina Stenbock, Queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1535)
Dec 15th - Charles d'albert duke of Luynes/PM of France, dies at 43
Dec 30th - Saint Job of Maniava, Ukrainian Orthodox Saint (b. 1550)