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Events
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September 6 -
English emigrants on the
Mayflower (ship) 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 (philosopher) 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.
Births
*
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.''
Deaths
*
February 19 -
Roemer Visscher, Dutch writer (b.
1547)
*
March 1 -
Thomas Campion, English poet and composer (b.
1567)
*
March 17 -
John Sarkander St. John Sarkander,
Moravian priest, died of injuries caused by
torture 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.''
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