1621 in History
51 entries
Events
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1621
Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.
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1621
Myles Standish is appointed as first military commander of the English Plymouth Colony in North America.
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Samoset, a Mohegan, visited the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
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The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.
Pilgrim Fathers · Plymouth Colony · Massasoit · Wampanoag people
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The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to England.
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The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.
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The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherland.
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Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.
Old Town Square execution · Prague · Battle of White Mountain
Famous Births
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Thomas Willis, English physician and anatomist (d. 1675)
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Johannes Schefferus, Swedish author and hymn-writer (d. 1679)
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Rebecca Nurse, Massachusetts colonist, executed as a witch (d. 1692)
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Georg Neumark, German poet and composer (d. 1681)
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Heinrich Schwemmer German composer and educator (d. 1696)
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Andrew Marvell, English poet and politician (d. 1678)
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William Penn, English admiral and politician (d. 1670)
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Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, English soldier and politician (d. 1679)
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Rutger von Ascheberg, Courland-born soldier in Swedish service (d. 1693)
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Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter (d. 1649)
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Willem van der Zaan, Dutch Admiral (d. 1669)
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Jean de La Fontaine, French author and poet (d. 1695)
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Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (d. 1683)
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury · Lord Chancellor
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Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter, etcher, and poet (d. 1674)
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Louis, Grand Condé, French general (d. 1686)
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Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1682)
Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham · Lord Chancellor of England
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Edmund Berry Godfrey, English lawyer and judge (d. 1678)
Famous Deaths
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1621
Pope Paul V (b. 1550)
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Michael Praetorius, German organist and composer (b. 1571)
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Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1590)
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Benedetto Giustiniani, Italian cardinal (b. 1554)
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Philip III, Spanish king (b. 1578)
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Cristofano Allori, Italian painter and educator (b. 1577)
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Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford (b. 1539)
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Elizabeth Bacon, English Tudor gentlewoman (b. 1541)
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Anne de Xainctonge, French saint, founded the Society of the Sisters of Saint Ursula of the Blessed Virgin (b. 1567)
Anne de Xainctonge · Society of the Sisters of Saint Ursula of the Blessed Virgin
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Louis III, Cardinal of Guise (b. 1575)
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Kryštof Harant, Czech soldier and composer (b. 1564)
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Thomas Harriot, English astronomer, mathematician, and ethnographer (b. 1560)
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Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, French commander (b. 1571)
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Albert VII, Archduke of Austria (b. 1559)
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Guillaume du Vair, French lawyer and author (b. 1556)
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John Barclay, Scottish poet and author (b. 1582)
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Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī, co-founder of Isfahan School of Islamic Philosophy (b. 1547)
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Robert Bellarmine, Italian cardinal and saint (b. 1542)
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Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Polish commander (b. 1560)
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Mary Sidney, English writer,
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Antoine de Montchrestien, French soldier, playwright, and economist (b. 1575)
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Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch organist and composer (b. 1562)
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Ralph Agas, English surveyor and cartographer (b. 1540)
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Katarina Stenbock, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1535)
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Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes, French courtier, Constable of France (b. 1578)
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Job of Manyava, Ukrainian monk and saint (b. 1550)