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1620s
1620
1620, Feb. 19:	The author Roemer Visscher is buried at Amsterdam.
1620, May 17:	The statesman and diplomat Coenraad van Beuningen is born at Amsterdam.
1620, Jun. 28:	Franciscus van den Enden passes a second examination as a novice.
1620, Nov. 8:	The Protestant army under Elector Palatine Frederick V is crushed at the Battle of White Mountain near Prague, Bohemia.
1620, Nov. 19:	The Pilgims aboard the Mayflower reach Cape Cod (present Massachusetts).
1620, Dec. 23:	Franciscus van den Enden passes a third examination as a novice.

	Francis Bacon, Instauratio magna, London: John Bill (including the Novum Organum).
1621
1621, Jan. 28:	Pope Paul V dies at Rome.
1621, Feb. 9:	Pope Gregory XV is elected.
1621, Mar. 22:	The scholar Hugo Grotius escapes from his Loevenstein prison in a book-chest.
1621, Mar. 31:	Philip III, King of Spain, dies at Madrid and is succeeded by his son, Philip IV.
1621, Apr. 9:	The Twelve Years Truce expires.
1621, May:	French Huguenots rise in rebellion against Louis XIII.
1621, Jun. 3:	The Dutch West India Company is founded.
1621, Jun. 26:	Franciscus van den Enden passes a fourth and last examination, finishing the noviciate.
1621, Jul. 13:	Archduke Albert of Austria dies childless and the Southern Netherlands return to Spain, with Isabella as governor.
1621, Sep. 12:	The Jesuits open a new baroque church in Antwerp and consacrate it to Ignatius of Loyola (now the Carolus Borromeus Church).

	Jacobus Zevecotius, Rosimunda tragoedia, Ghent: Judocus Dooms.
1622
1622, Feb. 3:	After a siege of several months, the Dutch garrison at Jülich surrenders to a Spanish army under Ambrosio Spinola.
1622, Mar. 12:	Ignatius of Loyola and Franciscus Xaverius are canonized by Pope Gregory XV.
1622, May 15:	The geographer and Calvinst preacher Petrus Plancius dies at Amsterdam.
1622, Jul. 23:	The Jesuits at Antwerp celebrate the canonization of Ignatius of Loyola and Franciscus Xaverius, with a procession and fireworks.
1622, Aug. 29:	A Protestant army under Christian of Brunswick and Count Mansfeld defeats a Spanish army at the Battle of Fleurus.
1622, Nov. 8:	French Huguenots and Louis XIII sign the Treaty of Montpellier, which affirms the Edict of Nantes (1598).
1622, Nov. 8:	The Mennonite preacher and theologian Galenus Abrahamszoon de Haan is born at Zierikzee.
1622, Dec.:	The Spanish Augustine Bartholomé de los Rios y Alarcon travels to Brussels.

	Franck Pietersz Burgersdijck, Idea philosophiae naturalis, Leiden: Elzevier.
	Constantijn Huygens, Costelick mal, Middelburg: Jan Pietersz van de Venne.
1623
1623, Jan. 15:	The Jesuit scholar Leonard Lessius dies at Leuven.
1623, May 27:	The political economist Sir William Petty is born at Romsey, England.
1623, Jun. 9:	Franciscus van den Enden receives the tonsure and minor orders at Amsterdam.
1623, Jun. 19:	The philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal is born at Clermont, France.
1623, Jul. 8:	Pope Gregory XV dies at Rome.
1623, Aug. 6:	A Protestant army under Christian of Brunswick is crushed by a Catholic army under Johan Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, at the Battle of Stadtlohn.
1623, Aug. 6:	Pope Urban VIII is elected.
1623, Aug. 23:	The astronomer Stanislaw Lubieniecki is born at Raków, Poland.
1623, Oct. 9:	The Jesuit missionary, astronomer, engineer and diplomat Ferdinand Verbiest is born at Pittem near Tielt.


	Tommaso Campanella, Realis philosophiae epilogisticae partes quatuor, Frankfurt: Godefridus Tampachus (includes the Civita solis).
	Willem Usselincx, Voortganck vande West-Indische Compaignie, Amsterdam: Marten Jansz Brandt.
1624
1624, Jan. 10:	The philosopher Arnold Geulincx is born at Antwerp.
1624, Feb. 5:	The Spanish Augustine Bartholomé de los Rios y Alarcon is appointed preacher to the Brussels court.
1624, Spring:	The first permanent settlements are constructed in New Netherland.
1624, Mar. 10:	England declares war on Spain.
1624, May 10:	The Portuguese at Bahia, Brazil, surrender to a Dutch fleet.
1624, Jun. 10:	France and the Dutch Republic sign the anti-Spanish Treaty of Compiègne, by which Louis XIII commits himself to subsidize the Republic by a million guilders a year.
1624, Aug.:	A large Spanish army under Ambrogio Spinola takes up the siege of Breda.
1624, Aug. 26:	Cardinal Richelieu is appointed chief minister of France.
1624, Oct. 1:	Franciscus van den Enden begins his first school year as a teacher of the Grammatica, the second year, at the Jesuit College of Mechelen.
1624, Dec. 9:	With the Treaty of The Hague England, Denmark, the Lower Saxon Circle and the Dutch Republic form an anti-Habsburg coalition.

	Carolus Scribani, Politico-Christianus, Antwerp: Martinus Nutius.
	Jean Leurechon, Recreation mathematicque, Pont-à-Mousson: Jean Appier Hanzelet.
1625
1625, Spring:	French troops, aided by Swiss Protestants, conquer the Valtelline Pass and thus block the 'Spanish Road', the overland route to the Holy Roman Empire and the Netherlands.
1625, Mar. 7:	The astronomer Johann Bayer dies at Augsburg, a free city in the Holy Roman Empire.
1625, Mar. 27:	The English James I (James VI of Scotland) dies and is succeeded by Charles I.
1625, Apr. 23:	Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, dies and is succeeded by Frederick Henry.
1625, Apr. 30:	A large Spanish fleet recaptures Baiha, for the moment ending the Dutch presence in Brazil.
1625, May:	Christian IV of Denmark enters the Thirty Years War.
1625, Jun. 5:	After a siege of ten months, the Dutch surrender Breda to Spinola.
1625, Jun. 8:	The astronomer and engineer Giovanni Domenico Cassini is born in Perinaldo, at the time part of the Republic of Genoa.
1625, Jun. 13:	The English Charles I marries the French princess Henrietta.
1625, Sep. 24:	The statesman Johan de Witt is born in Dordrecht.
1625, Oct. 1:	Franciscus van den Enden becomes a teacher of the Syntaxis, the third year, at the Jesuit College of Oudenaarde.

	Hugo Grotius, De Jure belli ac pacis libri tres, Paris: N. Buon.
	Joos van den Vondel, Palamedes oft Vermoorde Onnooselheyd, Amsterdam: Jacob Aertsz Colom.
	Johannes de Laet, Nieuvve wereldt ofte Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien, Leiden: Isaac Elzevier.
	Samuel Purchas, Pilgrimes, London: W. Stansby & H. Fetherstone.
1626
1626, Mar. 5:	Franco-Spanish hostilities over the Valtelline come to an end with the Treaty of Monzòn, by which the French have to allow use of the 'Spanish Road'.
1626, Apr. 9:	The philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon dies at Highgate, London.
1626, May 15:	The philosopher Tommaso Campanella is released from his captivity in Naples.
1626, Aug. 1:	Oldenzaal is conquered by Dutch troops.
1626, Aug. 26:	The Remonstrant leader Johannes Uytenbogaert returns from exile.
1626, Sep. 8:	The University of Leuven celebrates its bicentennial.
1626, Oct. 1:	Franciscus van den Enden becomes a teacher of the Ars Poetica, the fourth year, at the Jesuit College of Aalst.

	Pieter Cornelisz Hooft, Baeto, oft Oórsprong der Hóllanderen, Amsterdam: Willem Jansz Blaeu (written 1617).
1627
1627, Jan. 25:	The scientist Robert Boyle is born at Lismore, Ireland.
1627, Aug. 10:	Richelieu's army takes up the siege of La Rochelle, the last Huguenot stronghold.
1627, Aug. 19:	Frederick Henry captures Grol after a siege of a month.
1627, Aug. 29:	The painter Johannes Torrentius is arrested on suspicion of immorality and atheism.
1627, Oct. 1:	Franciscus van den Enden becomes a teacher of the Ars Poetica, the fourth year, at the Jesuit College of Winoxberge.

	Francis Bacon, New Atlantis, London: William Lee.
	[Simon Episcopius], Vrye godes-dienst, s.l.: s.n.
1628
1628, Jan. 26:	The painter Johannes Torrentius is sentenced to the stake for blasphemy, immorality and painting obscene pictures, but his sentence is changed into twenty years imprisonment and after an intervention by the English King he is bannished.
1628, Apr. 23:	The politician and mathematician Johannes Hudde is born at Amsterdam.
1628, Jun. 7:	The English Charles I consents to the Petition of Right.
1628, Jun. 19:	Samuel Godyn registers a colony named 'Swanendael' (Valley of the Swans), situated near the Delaware Bay, on the site of present Lewes, Delaware.
1628, Sep.:	A Dutch fleet under Piet Heyn captures the Spanish Silver Fleet.
1628, Oct. 1:	Franciscus van den Enden becomes a teacher of the Rhetorica, the fifth and last year, at the Jesuit College of Kassel.
1628, Oct. 28:	La Rochelle, the last Huguenot stronghold, falls, in spite of British efforts to break Richelieu's siege.
1628, Winter:	René Descartes settles in the Dutch Republic.
1628, Dec. 2:	The millenarian Johannes Rothe is born at Amsterdam.

	William Harvey, De motu cordis, Frankfort: Wilhelm Fitzer.
1629
1629, Mar. 4:	The English Charles I grants a charter to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, marking the beginning of a massive Puritan migration to North America.
1629, Mar. 29:	The English Charles I dissolves Parliament, starting a period of personal rule which would last eleven years.
1629, Apr. 13:	The Peace of Susa ends the war between France and England.
1629, Apr. 14:	The scientist Christiaen Huygens is born at The Hague.
1629, May 6:	The painter Otto Vaenius dies at Brussels.
1629, Jun. 24:	The Jesuit scholar Carolus Scribani dies at Antwerp.
1629, Sep. 12:	The Jesuit poet Herman Hugo dies at Rheinberg.
1629, Sep. 14:	After a siege of almost five months, 's-Hertogenbosch surrenders to Frederick Henry.
1629, Sep. 14:	The Dutch governor general of East India, Jan Pietersz Coen, dies at Batavia (Jakarta, Indonisia).
1629, Oct. 18:	The author and physician Lodewijk Meyer is baptized at Amsterdam.
1629, Nov.:	In the Spanish Netherlands, the Raad van State (Council of State) is reassembled, and Archbishop Jacques Boonen, Bishop Antoon Triest and Pieter Roose are appointed as members.

	Philips Lansbergen, Bedenckingen, op den daghelijcksen, ende iaerlijckschen loop vanden Aerdt-cloot, Middelburg: Zacharias Roman.
	Giovanni Branca, Le Machine, Rome: Iacomo Martuci & Iacomo Mascardi.