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1620 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

    1620
        Events
        Births
        Deaths

Events

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.

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

Cornelius Drebbel builds an undersea boat.

J.P.Donnet, teacher of deaf children in the Spanish court, creates sign alphabet.

Bonesetting becomes a science.

Births

February 4 - Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (d. 1667)

March 12 - Johann Heinrich Hottinger, Swiss philologist and theologian (d. 1667)

July 21 - Jean Picard, French astronomer (d. 1682)

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)

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Deaths

March 1 - Thomas Campion, English poet and composer (b. 1567)

March 17 - St. John Sarkander, Moravian priest, died of injuries caused by torturing (born 1576)

March 25 - Johannes Nucius, German composer (born c1556)

May 6 - Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1543)

May 16 - William Adams, English navigator and samurai (b. 1564)

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