1620

Year 1620 was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a of the 10-day slower ).

January - June

 * - Prince signs peace with emperor.
 * - The first is seen at a fair (Philippapolis, ).
 * - The oldest stone church in French, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, is begun at ,.

July - December

 * - Under the terms of the, the Protestant Union declares neutrality and ceases to support.
 * - The ship Speedwell departs with the  colonists and s.
 * - The ' and ' depart together from, , but the Speedwell starts to leak again and must stop.
 * - The mother of is arrested for.
 * - Battle at, : French king defeats his mother.
 * - The ' departs from, , on 3rd attempt without the ', arriving on ( date) at  (named from  voyage of ).
 * to - The  between -n troops and the, ending in a major victory for the Ottomans.
 * - The Great Patent is granted to.
 * - The, the first battle in the , takes place near , ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours.
 * - The  arrives inside the tip of, with the s and Planters
 * -  sign the  (11 November, ).

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Undated

 * publishes the ' (beyond 's ') on logical thinking.
 * Two officers of the attempt to claim the Table Mountain region (in present-day ) for, but fail.
 * publishes his English translation of the second half of , after having translated the first half in 1612.




 * Shogun restores . Its current appearance dates from this remodeling.
 * The modern is developed.
 * s begin in.




 * , at the, builds an.
 * , teacher of deaf children in the Spanish court, creates sign alphabet.
 * becomes a.
 * (-) continues (principally on the territory of today's ).


 * begins formal registration of births, marriages, and death.
 * is founded
 * Don Juan Geronimo Guerrero, a, founded the Colegio de Niños Huerfanos de San Juan de Letran in , . The orphanage for boys is the predecessor of the present day.

Births

 * -, Swedish statesman (d. )
 * -, French archaeologist (d. )
 * - (d. )
 * -, Swiss philologist and theologian (d. )
 * -, Dutch scholar (d. )
 * -, French astronomer (d. )
 * -, Dutch painter (d. )
 * -, Dutch painter (d. )
 * -, English diarist and writer (d. )
 * -, first English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (d. )
 * -, German Sanskrit scholar (d. )


 * See also .

Deaths

 * -, Dutch writer (b. )
 * -, English poet and composer (b. )
 * -, n priest, died of injuries caused by (born )
 * -, German composer (born c)
 * -, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. )
 * -, English navigator and samurai (b. )
 * - of China (b. )
 * - of China (b. )
 * -, Polish military leader (b. )


 * See also .