1620

Years:
1617 1618 1619 - 1620 - 1621 1622 1623

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

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

1620 by topic:
Arts and Science
Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science
Lists of leaders
Colonial governors - State leaders
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Works category
Works

1620 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

[edit] Events

September 6 (O.S.) - The Mayflower departs from Plymouth, England, on 3rd attempt without the Speedwell, arriving on November 11 (Julian O.S. date) at Cape Cod (named from Concord voyage of 1602).
September 17 to October 7 - The Battle of Cecora between Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth-Moldavian troops and the Ottoman Empire, ending in a major victory for the Ottomans.
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.
November 11 - Pillgrams on The MayFlower and The Speedwell come to Cape Cod bay.
November 21 - Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact (11 November, O.S.).
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.