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Years:
1620
1621
1622
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1623
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1624
1625
1626
Decades
:
1590s
1600s
1610s
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1620s
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1630s
1640s
1650s
Centuries
:
16th century
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17th century
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18th century
Events
August 6
-
Pope Urban VIII
is elected to the
Papacy
.
Change of
emperor
of the
Ottoman Empire
from
Osman II
(1618-
1622
) to
Murat IV
(
1623
-
1640
).
The
Safavids
recapture
Baghdad
.
England
first colonizes
Saint Kitts and Nevis
.
Wilhelm Schickard
invents his "Calculating Clock", and early mechanical calculator.
Procopius
's long-lost
Secret History
is rediscovered in the
Vatican Library
.
Giambattista Marini
publishes his long poem
Adone
.
Tommaso Campanella
publishes
The City of the Sun
.
Johannes Rudbeck founds Rudbeckianska Gymnasiet , first
gymnasium
in
Sweden
.
The
Avedis Zildjian Company
begins making
cymbals
at
Constantinople
.
Second
Thanksgiving
celebrated at Plymouth Plantation .
Erotomania
is first mentioned in a psychiatric treatise.
Births
January 9
-
Empress Meisho of Japan
June 19
-
Blaise Pascal
,
French
mathematician
,
physicist
and
religious
philosopher
August 5
-
Antonio Cesti
, composer (data of baptism) (+
1669
)
Margaret Cavendish
, Duchess of Newcastle (+
1673
)
Sir William Petty
Deaths
March 19
-
Uesugi Kagekatsu
, Japanese samurai and warlord
July 4
-
William Byrd
, composer
July 8
-
Pope Gregory XV
12 November
-
Josaphat Kuncevyc
, archbishop from
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
, key figure in
Union of Brest
Andrea Andreani
, Italian engraver
William Camden
, historian
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