Explore the major historical events, famous births, and notable deaths that occurred in the year 1621. This year saw 19 significant events. 1 notable figure was born.
The Dutch colonial empire (Dutch: Nederlandse Koloniale Rijk) comprised overseas territories and trading posts under some form of Dutch control from the early 17th to late 20th centuries, including...
King James I of England gives Scottish courtier and poet William Alexander a royal charter to colonize Nova Scotia
John Wheelwright, English-American Puritan clergyman, marries Mary Storre in Lincolnshire
The Dutch conquest of the Banda Islands, also referred to as the Banda genocide, was a process of military conquest from 1609 to 1621 by the Dutch East India Company of the Banda Islands.
Batavia was an imperial Dutch port city that eventually, after two centuries of Dutch occupation, became the capital of the Dutch East Indies. The area corresponds to present-day Jakarta, Indonesia.
Alexander Ludovisi is elected Pope Gregory XV (-1623)
Jacarta, Java, is renamed Batavia
John Pieterszoon Coen's troops land on Lontor, East Indies
Plymouth ( PLIM-əth; historically also spelled as Plimouth and Plimoth) is a town in and the county seat of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States.
The Twelve Years' Truce was a ceasefire during the Eighty Years' War between Spain and the Dutch Republic, agreed in Antwerp on 9 April 1609 and ended on 9 April 1621.
The Protestant Union (German: Protestantische Union), also known as the Evangelical Union, Union of Auhausen, German Union or the Protestant Action Party, was a coalition of Protestant German states.
French government army occupies Fort St Jean d'Angély at La Rochelle
Dutch governor general John Pieterszoon Coen takes Banda islands, 15,000 die
Riga ( REE-gə) is the capital, primate, and largest city of Latvia and the second largest in the Baltics.
Treaty of Khotyn is signed between the Ottoman Empire and Poland–Lithuania, recognizing Ottoman control over Moldavia and ending the Polish–Ottoman War
Rabbi Isaiah ben Avraham Ha-Levi Horowitz returns to the Holy Land settles in Jerusalem
John Donne ( DUN; 1571 or 1572 – 31 March 1631) was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family, who later became a cleric in the Church of England.
Emperor Ferdinand II delegates 1st anti-Reformation decree
English parliament accept unanimously, Protestation
Jean de La Fontaine, French fabulist and poet, known for french fabulist and poet, was born on 1621-07-08.
The Dutch colonial empire (Dutch: Nederlandse Koloniale Rijk) comprised overseas territories and trading posts under some form of Dutch control from the early 17th to late 20th centuries, including...
King James I of England gives Scottish courtier and poet William Alexander a royal charter to colonize Nova Scotia
John Wheelwright, English-American Puritan clergyman, marries Mary Storre in Lincolnshire
The Dutch conquest of the Banda Islands, also referred to as the Banda genocide, was a process of military conquest from 1609 to 1621 by the Dutch East India Company of the Banda Islands.
Batavia was an imperial Dutch port city that eventually, after two centuries of Dutch occupation, became the capital of the Dutch East Indies. The area corresponds to present-day Jakarta, Indonesia.
Alexander Ludovisi is elected Pope Gregory XV (-1623)
Jacarta, Java, is renamed Batavia
John Pieterszoon Coen's troops land on Lontor, East Indies
Plymouth ( PLIM-əth; historically also spelled as Plimouth and Plimoth) is a town in and the county seat of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States.
The Twelve Years' Truce was a ceasefire during the Eighty Years' War between Spain and the Dutch Republic, agreed in Antwerp on 9 April 1609 and ended on 9 April 1621.
The Protestant Union (German: Protestantische Union), also known as the Evangelical Union, Union of Auhausen, German Union or the Protestant Action Party, was a coalition of Protestant German states.
French government army occupies Fort St Jean d'Angély at La Rochelle
Dutch governor general John Pieterszoon Coen takes Banda islands, 15,000 die
Riga ( REE-gə) is the capital, primate, and largest city of Latvia and the second largest in the Baltics.
Treaty of Khotyn is signed between the Ottoman Empire and Poland–Lithuania, recognizing Ottoman control over Moldavia and ending the Polish–Ottoman War
Rabbi Isaiah ben Avraham Ha-Levi Horowitz returns to the Holy Land settles in Jerusalem
John Donne ( DUN; 1571 or 1572 – 31 March 1631) was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family, who later became a cleric in the Church of England.
Emperor Ferdinand II delegates 1st anti-Reformation decree
English parliament accept unanimously, Protestation