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Years: 1619 1620 1621 - 1622 - 1623 1624 1625

Decades: 1590s 1600s 1610s - 1620s - 1630s 1640s 1650s

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century Template:C17YearInTopic

Events

• January 1 - In the Gregorian calendar, January 1 is declared as the first day of the year, instead of March 25.
• February 8 - King James I of England disbands the English Parliament.
• March 22 - In the Jamestown massacre, Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and destroys the Henricus settlement.
• May 13 — the Eendracht, Dutch VOC sailing ship and the second recorded European ship to make landfall on Australian soil, is wrecked off the western coast of Ambon Island, Dutch East Indies.
• Étienne Brûlé is the first European to see Lake Superior.
• Portugal loses control of the island of Ormus, after 107 years.
• Albertus Magnus is beatified by the Roman Catholic Church.
• Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha sinks off the Florida Keys, while carrying copper, silver, gold, tobacco, and indigo. (Wreck discovered 1985).

Births

• January 15 - Molière, French playwright (d. 1673)
• January 28 - Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (d. 1691)
• February 24 - Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (d. 1665)
• April 5 - Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and scientist (d. 1703)
• May 8 - Claes Rålamb, Swedish statesman (d. 1698)
• May 22 - Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (d. 1698)
• October 31 - Pierre Paul Puget, French artist (d. 1694)
• November 8 - King Charles X of Sweden (d. 1660)

See also Category:1622 births.

Deaths

• January 23 - William Baffin, English explorer (b. 1584)
• February 19 - Henry Savile, English educator (b. 1549)
• April 24 - Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Roman Catholic missionary (b. 1577)
• May 3 - Pedro Páez, Spanish Jesuit missionary (b. 1564)
• May 20 - Osman II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1604)
• July 1 - William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, British politician (b. 1575)
• December 28 - Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva and saint (b. 1567)

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