Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1590s  1600s  1610s  – 1620s –  1630s  1640s  1650s
Years:	1618 1619 1620 – 1621 – 1622 1623 1624

1621 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Year 1621 (MDCXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1621 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1621

[edit] January–June

• February 9 – Pope Gregory XV succeeds Pope Paul V as the 234th pope.
• February 17 – Miles Standish is appointed as the first commander of Plymouth Colony.
• March 16 – Samoset, a Mohegan, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
• March 22 – The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.
• April 1 – The Plymouth, Massachusetts colonists create the first treaty with native Americans.
• April 5 – The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth on a return trip to England.
• May 24 – The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.
• June 21 – Thirty Years' War: Twenty-seven Czech lords are executed on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.

[edit] July–December

• October – The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony and Wampanoags celebrate a harvest feast (3 days), later regarded as the "First Thanksgiving", noted for peaceful co-existence.
• November 11 – The ship Fortune arrives at Plymouth Colony, with 35 more settlers.

[edit] Undated

• The Venezuelan city of Petare is founded by Spanish conquistadors as San Jose de Guanarito.
• The Swedish city of Gothenburg is founded by Gustavus Adolphus.
• Riga falls under the rule of Sweden.
• The Swedish king Gustav II Adolf grants city rights to Luleå, Piteå and Torneå (Tornio).
• The Dutch mathematician and astronomer, Willebrord Snel van Royen – Snellius (1580–1626), discovers the famous law of refraction, also known as "Snellius' law".

[edit] Births

1621 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1621 MDCXXI
Ab urbe condita	2374
Armenian calendar	1070 ԹՎ ՌՀ
Bahá'í calendar	-223 – -222
Berber calendar	2571
Buddhist calendar	2165
Burmese calendar	983
Byzantine calendar	7129 – 7130
Chinese calendar	庚申年十二月初九日 (4257/4317-12-9) — to — 辛酉年十一月十九日 (4258/4318-11-19)
Coptic calendar	1337 – 1338
Ethiopian calendar	1613 – 1614
Hebrew calendar	5381 – 5382
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1676 – 1677
- Shaka Samvat	1543 – 1544
- Kali Yuga	4722 – 4723
Holocene calendar	11621
Iranian calendar	999 – 1000
Islamic calendar	1030 – 1031
Japanese calendar	Genna 7 (元和7年)
Korean calendar	3954
Thai solar calendar	2164
v • d • e

• January 27 – Thomas Willis, English physician who made important contributions to anatomy, particularly of the brain and nervous system (d. 1675)
• February 2 – Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian-born humanist (d. 1679)
• February 21 – Rebecca Nurse, accused witch (d. 1692)
• March 31 – Andrew Marvell, English poet (d. 1678)
• April 1 – Guru Teg Bahadur, 9th Sikh Guru (d. 1675)
• April 25 – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (d. 1679)
• July 6 – Jean de La Fontaine, French writer (d. 1695)
• July 22 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, British politician (d. 1683)
• August 19 – Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (d. 1674)
• September 8 – Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French general (d. 1686)
• December 23 – Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (d. 1678)
• December 23 – Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1682)

[edit] Deaths

• January 28 – Pope Paul V (b. 1550)
• February 15 – Michael Praetorius, German composer (b. 1571)
• February 28 – Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1590)
• March 31 – King Philip III of Castile (Philip II of Portugal) (b. 1578)
• April 1 – Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (b. 1577)
• April 15 – John Carver, first governor of Plymouth Colony
• May 15 – Hendrick de Keyser, Dutch architect and sculptor (b. 1565)
• June 8 – Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (b. 1567)
• June 21 – Kryštof Harant z Polžic a Bezdružic, Bohemian composer, soldier, and author (executed) (b. 1564)
• July 2 – Thomas Harriot, English astronomer and mathematician (b. c. 1560)
• July 10 – Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, soldier in Habsburg service (b. 1571)
• July 13 – Archduke Albert of Austria, Governor of the Low Countries (b. 1559)
• August 3 – Guillaume du Vair, French writer (b. 1556)
• August 15 – John Barclay, Scottish writer (b. 1582)
• September 17 – Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (b. 1542)
• September 24 – Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Polish military commander (b. 1560)
• September 25 – Mary Sidney, English writer, patroness and translator (b. 1561)
• October 8 – Antoine de Montchrestien, French dramatist and economist (b. c. 1575)
• October 16 – Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer (b. 1562)
• November 26 – Ralph Agas, English surveyor (b. c. 1540)
• December 13 – Katarina Stenbock, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1535)
• December 15 – Charles de Luynes, Constable of France (b. 1578)