1620 to 1629

1620

Paperback 9.22 In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life

x - Fredinand II wages war against the Hungarian Protestants.
nov 08 - |Thirty Years' War +¢| The Battle of White Mountian; Fredrick V of Bohemia is defeated and sent into exile.
x - The Mayflower, a small merchant vessel, sails from England to New England with 102 dissenters seeking religious liberty to found the first permanent colony settled by families. Before landing, some signed the Mayflower Compact * and laid the foundation for democracy in America.

1621

x - Ferdinand II of the Holy Roman Empire becomes King of Hungary.
x - Pope Paul V + dies.
x - Gregory XV + becomes pope ?+ [u.1623] [re.List of Popes]

1622

x - Moliere (Jean Baptiste Poquelin) is born [d.1673]
apr - |Thirty Years' War +¢| Battle of Wesloch; The defeat of Tilly by Mansfield.
may - |Thirty Years' War| The Battle of Wimpfen; Victory of Tilly over Margrave of Baden-Durlach.
jun - |Thirty Years' War| Battlae of Hoöchst; Victory of Tilly over Christian of Brunswick, brother of the reigning duke and the administrator of the Bishopric of Halberstadt.
oct - Galileo ?* sends the manuscript of The Assayer, his reply to Grassi's Astronomical Balance, to the Lincean Academy in Rome.

1623

feb - Roman censors give permission for Galileo's The Assayer to be printed.
aug - Upon the death of Pope Gregory XV +, Cardinal Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII +. [u.1644] [re.List of Popes]
oct - The Assayer, now dedicated to Pope Urban VIII, is published in Rome by the Lincean Academy.
oct - || Conellius Drebbel, hired in 1603 as "court inventor" for James I, builds what may be the first working submarine ?+, which made a submerged journey down the Thames River at a depth of about fifteen feet.

1624

x - Cardinal Richelieu becomes principal minister
x - London Company (a company colonizing America) is dissolved due to trouble in Jamestown.
c - A complaint against Galileo's Assayer is made. The complaint charges that the atomism espoused in the book cannot be squared with the official church doctrine regarding the Eucharist, in which bread and wine are "transubstantiated" into Christ's flesh and blood. After an investigation by the Inquisition, Galileo is cleared.

1625

x - |Thirty Years' War +¢| Ferdinand II of the Holy Roman Empire is victorious in wars against the Protestants in Germany. End of the Bohemian Period of the war.
x - Death of James I, Charles I becomes king of Britian.
x - |Thirty Years' War| The Danish Period [u.1629]

1626

x - |Thirty Years' War +¢| Wallenstien defeats Mansfield at the Bridge of Dessau and pusues him through Silesia to Hungary, where Mansfield joins Bethlen Gabor.

1627

x - France introduces registered mail.
x - Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II outlaws all religions but Roman Catholicism in Bohemia.
x - |Thirty Years' War +¢| Tilly and Wallenstein conquer Holstein.
x - |Thirty Years' War| Wallenstien Subdues Schleswig and Jutland, drove theDukes of Mecklenburg from their country and forcedthe Duke of Pomerania into submission.

1628

x - Charles I of England signs the Petition of Right promising not to collect forced loans or levy taxes without parliaments consent. He ignores most of the Petition of Right.
x - |Thirty Years' War +¢| Wallenstein seiges Stralsund. The heroic defense of the citizens for caused him to lift the siege after ten weeks.

1629

mar 29 - |Thirty Years' War +¢| Edict of Restitution allows the Roman Catholic church to recover property seized by Protestants.
may 22 - |Thirty Years' War| Treaty of Lübeck between Ferdinand II and Christian IV ends this period of the war.