1621

1621 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1621; MDCXXI
Ab urbe condita	2374
Armenian calendar	1070; ԹՎ ՌՀ
Assyrian calendar	6371
Balinese saka calendar	1542–1543
Bengali calendar	1028
Berber calendar	2571
English Regnal year	18 Ja. 1 – 19 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar	2165
Burmese calendar	983
Byzantine calendar	7129–7130
Chinese calendar	庚申年 (Metal Monkey); 4317 or 4257; — to —; 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster); 4318 or 4258
Coptic calendar	1337–1338
Discordian calendar	2787
Ethiopian calendar	1613–1614
Hebrew calendar	5381–5382
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1677–1678
- Shaka Samvat	1542–1543
- Kali Yuga	4721–4722
Holocene calendar	11621
Igbo calendar	621–622
Iranian calendar	999–1000
Islamic calendar	1030–1031
Japanese calendar	Genna 7; (元和７年)
Javanese calendar	1542–1543
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3954
Minguo calendar	291 before ROC; 民前291年
Nanakshahi calendar	153
Thai solar calendar	2163–2164
Tibetan calendar	阳金猴年; (male Iron-Monkey); 1747 or 1366 or 594; — to —; 阴金鸡年; (female Iron-Rooster); 1748 or 1367 or 595

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

The Siege of Montauban.

1621 (MDCXXI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1621st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 621st year of the 2nd millennium, the 21st year of the 17th century, and the 2nd year of the 1620s decade. As of the start of 1621, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events[edit]

January–June[edit]

February 9 – Papal Conclave of 1621: Pope Gregory XV succeeds Pope Paul V, as the 234th pope.
February 17 – Myles Standish is appointed as the first commander of Plymouth Colony.^[1]
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.
March 31 – King Philip IV of Spain begins his 44-year rule.
April – The Twelve Years' Truce between the Dutch Republic and the Spanish Empire expires, and both sides prepare to resume the Eighty Years' War.
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 2 – The Panama earthquake affects the Isthmus of Panama, with an estimated magnitude of 6.9, and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong).
May 24 – The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.
June 3 – The Dutch West India Company is founded.
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.
June 24 – Huguenot rebellions: Saint-Jean-d'Angély is taken, after a 26-day siege by Royal forces.

July–December[edit]

July 25 – Thirty Years' War – Battle of Neu Titschein: Remnants of the Bohemian army temporarily hold off the Imperial advance in Silesia.
August – Huguenot rebellions: Louis XIII of France besieges the Huguenot city of Montauban in the Siege of Montauban, but is forced to abandon his siege two months later.
September–October – Battle of Khotyn: Polish troops hold off a large Ottoman army for over a month.^[2]
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.
October 9 – The Treaty of Khotyn is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, ending the First Polish-Ottoman War.
November 11 – The ship Fortune arrives at Plymouth Colony, with 35 more settlers.
December 31 – Thirty Years' War: The Peace of Nikolsburg is signed between Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor and Gabor Bethlen, Prince of Transylvania. Bethlen agrees to renounce his claims to Hungary. In return Bethlen receives several counties and lands along the eastern border of the Holy Roman Empire, and Moravia is granted religious freedom.

Date unknown[edit]

The Venezuelan city of Petare is founded by Spanish conquistadors, as San Jose de Guanarito.
The Swedish city of Gothenburg is founded by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden. The king also grants city rights to Luleå, Piteå and Torneå (Tornio). Riga falls under the rule of Sweden.
The Dutch mathematician and astronomer, Willebrord Snel van Royen (1580–1626), discovers the famous law of refraction, also known as Snellius' law.
Tamblot starts the Tamblot Uprising, in the Philippines.
The Dutch East India Company sends 2,000 soldiers, under the command of Jan Pieterszoon Coen, to the Banda Islands, in order to force the local inhabitants to accept the Dutch trade monopoly on the lucrative nutmeg, grown almost exclusively on those islands. The soldiers proceed to massacre most of the 15,000 indigenous inhabitants.

Births[edit]

Thomas Willis

Lamoral II Claudius Franz, Count of Thurn and Taxis

Erzsébet Thurzó

William Penn

Rutger von Ascheberg born 2 June

Edward Proger

January–March[edit]

January 16 – Magnus Celsius, Swedish astronomer and mathematician (d. 1679)
January 27 – Thomas Willis, English doctor who played an important part in the history of anatomy (d. 1675)
January 30 – George II Rákóczi, Hungarian nobleman (d. 1660)
February 2 – Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian-born humanist (d. 1679)
February 4 – Frederick, Burgrave of Dohna, Dutch officer, and governor of Orange (d. 1688)
February 14 – Sibylla Schwarz, German poet (d. 1638)
February 20 – Erzsébet Thurzó, Hungarian noblewoman (d. 1642)
February 21 – Rebecca Nurse, Massachusetts colonist, executed as a witch (d. 1692)
February – Lamoral II Claudius Franz, Count of Thurn and Taxis, Postmaster General of the Holy Roman Empire (1646–1676) (d. 1676)
March 1 – John Alleyn, Cornish politician (d. 1663)
March 2 – Louis Günther II, Count of Schwarzburg-Ebeleben (1642–1681) (d. 1681)
March 9 – Egbert van der Poel, Dutch painter (d. 1664)
March 16 – Georg Neumark, German poet and composer of hymns (d. 1681)
March 24 – John VI, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1621–1667) (d. 1667)
March 26 (bapt.) – Jacob van der Ulft, Dutch painter (d. 1689)
March 27 – Margrave Charles Magnus of Baden-Durlach (d. 1658)
March 28 – Heinrich Schwemmer, German music teacher and composer (d. 1696)
March 31 – Andrew Marvell, English metaphysical poet and politician (d. 1678)

April–June[edit]

April 1 – Guru Tegh Bahadur, 9th Sikh Guru (d. 1675)
April 7 – Crato, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (1640–1642) (d. 1642)
April 17
- Henry Vaughan, Welsh author (d. 1695)
- Thomas Vaughan, Welsh philosopher (d. 1666)
April 23
- Georg Arnold, Austrian musician (d. 1676)
- William Penn, English admiral and politician (d. 1670)
April 25 – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, Anglo-Irish soldier, statesman and dramatist (d. 1679)
May 25 – David Beck, Dutch portrait painter (d. 1656)
June 2
- Rutger von Ascheberg, Courland-born soldier in Swedish service (d. 1693)
- Jørgen Bjelke, Norwegian officer and nobleman (d. 1696)
- Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter (d. 1649)
June 6 – Petar Zrinski, Croatian viceroy (executed 1671)
June 16 – Edward Proger, Member of Parliament for Brecknockshire (d. 1713)
June 29 – Willem van der Zaan, Dutch admiral (d. 1669)

July–September[edit]

July 1 – Cornelis de Man, Dutch painter (d. 1706)
July 8
- Jean de La Fontaine, French writer (d. 1695)
- Leonora Christina Ulfeldt, Danish countess (d. 1698)
July 22
- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician (d. 1683)
- Thomas Hanford, New England settler, Puritan minister (d. 1693)
- Kinoshita Jun'an, Japanese philosopher and Confucian scholar (d. 1699)
July 24 – Jan Andrzej Morsztyn, Polish poet (d. 1693)
August 12 – Albert d'Orville, Jesuit priest and missionary, cartographer (d. 1662)
August 13
- Sir John Pakington, 2nd Baronet, English politician (d. 1680)
- Israel Silvestre, French topographical etcher (d. 1691)
August 19 – Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (d. 1674)
August 22 – Adriaen van Gaesbeeck, Dutch painter of genre subjects and portraits (d. 1650)
August 28 – Sir Richard Grobham Howe, 2nd Baronet, English Member of Parliament (d. 1703)
September 8 – Louis, Grand Condé, French general (d. 1686)
September 9 – Henry X, Count of Reuss-Lobenstein, Rector of the University of Leipzig (d. 1671)

October–December[edit]

October 3
- Claude Maltret, French Jesuit (d. 1674)
- Friedrich Werner, German musician (d. 1660)
October 8 – Maximilian Henry of Bavaria, Roman Catholic bishop (d. 1688)
October 18 – Michael Angelo Immenraet, Flemish painter (d. 1683)
October 20 – Şehzade Ömer, Ottoman prince (d. 1622)
October 21
- Nicholas Barré, French Minim friar, priest and founder (d. 1686)
- Richard Standish, English politician (d. 1662)
October 23 – Lord John Stewart, Scottish aristocrat, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (d. 1644)
October 24 – Serafina of God, founder of seven Carmelite monasteries of nuns in southern Italy (d. 1699)
November 11 – Israel Tonge, English churchman and anti-Catholic conspirator (d. 1680)
November 15
- Cornelis Geelvinck, Dutch mayor (d. 1689)
- Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough, English diplomat (d. 1697)
December 3 – Bohuslav Balbín, Czech writer and Jesuit (d. 1688)
December 10 – Christian Albert, Burgrave and Count of Dohna, German nobleman and general in the army of Brandenburg (d. 1677)
December 12 – Gerard Pietersz Hulft, Dutch general (d. 1656)
December 23
- Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English politician (d. 1682)
- Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate whose mysterious death caused anti-Catholic uproar in England (d. 1678)

Approximate date[edit]

Richard Allestree, English churchman and provost of Eton College (d. 1681)

Deaths[edit]

Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī

Paul Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain

Catherine Stenbock