Calendar year
August 19 : The heavily fortified Spanish Netherlands city ofGrol , falling aftera 30-day siege by the Dutch Republic leader,Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange .1627 (MDCXXVII ) was acommon year starting on Friday of theGregorian calendar and acommon year starting on Monday of theJulian calendar , the 1627th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini (AD) designations, the 627th year of the2nd millennium , the 27th year of the17th century , and the 8th year of the1620s decade. As of the start of 1627, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
The last recordedAurochs dies inPoland . July 5 –13 –Turkish Abductions :Barbary corsairs fromAlgiers raid theEast Fjords of Iceland and take captives into slavery.[ 2] July 16 – Turkish Abductions: the Barbary corsairs from Algiers raid the island ofHeimaey off Iceland, take captives into slavery and kill others.[ 2] July 20 –Eighty Years' War :Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange , begins theSiege of Grol , the lastSpanish stronghold in the easternNetherlands , and captures it after 30 days.July 22 – The English, under theDuke of Buckingham , invade theÎle de Ré off the coast of France in support of theHuguenots inLa Rochelle ; the invasion fails.July 27 – Anearthquake destroys the cities ofSan Severo andTorremaggiore in southernItaly .August 16 – In a persecution of Christians in Japan,14 Franciscan missionaries and converts are killed .August 19 –Eighty Years' War : Grol, in the Spanish Netherlands, is captured after the siege started on July 20 by Prince Frederick Henry.September 10 – TheSiege of La Rochelle begins as the Roman Catholic nations of France and Spain move to suppress the revolt of Protestant Huguenots in the western French city.[ 3] September 12 –Mohammed Adil Shah begins his reign as the new Sultan of Bijapur in south India, after the death of his father,Ibrahim Adil Shah II .September 24 –William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel , landgrave of the German stateHesse-Kassel , signs theHauptakkord withGeorge II ofHesse-Darmstadt , ceding much of its territory.September 30 – The reign of China's 21-year old ruler, the Ming dynastyTianqi Emperor , Zhu Youjiao, ends after seven years.October 2 – The Tianqi Emperor's 16-year-old brother, Zhu Youjian, is enthroned as theChongzhen Emperor .October 28 – The Mughal EmperorJahangir dies of a respiratory illness nearBhimber while attempting to return to his palace atLahore .November 7 –Shahryar Mirza , the 22-year-old son ofJahangir and son-in-law of Jahangir's widowNur Jahan , is installed as the new Mughal Emperor at Lahore.November 20 –Thirty Years' War :Bogislaw XIV, Duke of Pomerania , signs theCapitulation of Franzburg , in whichPomerania is forced to pay for the Imperial army thatWallenstein sent to occupy it. Nonetheless, despite the treaty, Pomerania is devastated by the Imperial troops.November 28 –Polish-Swedish War :Battle of Oliwa – APolish-Lithuanian fleet defeats aSwedish fleet.December 18 –La selva sin amor (The Forest without Love), written byLope de Vega and with music by Alessandro Piccinini, premieres as the first Spanish opera.December 25 –Vincenzo II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua , dies of poor health at the age of 33.Charles I Gonzaga becomes the Duke over the objections ofCharles Emmanuel I of Savoy , leading to theWar of the Mantuan Succession .December 27 – In Madrid, ministers of King Philip IV of Spain, draw up proposals for a "Kingdom and Republic of Ireland" that would break with England, to have two Captains General to be executives of the Republic.December 30 (Jumada-l awwal 2, 1037 AH) – Shihab-ud-Din Muhammad Khurram, son of the later Emperor Jahangir, entersLahore after defeating his brother Shahryar Mirza. He is proclaimed asShah Jahan .Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten Countess Louise Henriette of Nassau January 25 –Robert Boyle , Anglo-Irish scientist (d.1691 )[ 4] February 2 –Sir Robert Kemp, 2nd Baronet , English politician (d.1710 )February 10 –Cornelis de Bie , Flemish poet, jurist (d.1715 )February 15 –Charles Morton , Cornish nonconformist minister (d.1698 )February 21 –Philips Augustijn Immenraet , Flemish painter (d.1679 )February 28 –Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford (d.1703 )March 9 March 14 –Roelant Roghman , Dutch Golden Age painter (d.1692 )March 27 – SirStephen Fox , English politician (d.1716 )[ 5] July 1 –Anna Maria of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , consort of Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (d.1669 )July 3 –Juan Ortega y Montañés , Spanish Catholic bishop, colonial administrator in Guatemala and New Spain (d.1708 )July 18 –Henry Howard, 5th Earl of Suffolk , youngest son of Theophilus Howard (d.1709 )July 20 –Thomas Wynne , English personal physician of William Penn (d.1691 )July 28 –John Francis Desideratus, Prince of Nassau-Siegen (1652–1699) (d.1699 )August 1 –Princess Louise of Savoy , Hereditary Princess of Baden-Baden (d.1689 )August 2 –Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten , Dutch painter of the Golden Age (d.1678 )August 8 August 21 August 26 –Philipp Jakob Sachs , German physician (d.1672 )August 30 September 11 –John Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1662–1683) (d.1683 )September 12 –Humbertus Guilielmus de Precipiano , Belgian Catholic archbishop (d.1711 )September 27 –Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet , French bishop and theologian (d.1704 )[ 6] October 1 –Galeazzo Marescotti , Italian Catholic cardinal (d.1726 )October 3 –William Crispin , one of five English Commissioners appointed by William Penn for settling Pennsylvania (d.1681 )October 4 November 5 –Herman Egon, Prince of Fürstenberg , High Chamberlain of the Elector of Bavaria (d.1674 )November 12 –Diego Luis de San Vitores , Spanish Jesuit missionary to Guam (d.1672 )November 14 –Marie Jonas de la Motte , Dutch prostitute (d.1683 )November 16 –Erasmus Finx , German polymath (d.1694 )November 17 –John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1660–1693) (d.1693 )November 20 –Charlotte, Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel , German noble (d.1686 )November 24 –Theophil Großgebauer , German theologian (d.1661 )November 29 –John Ray , English biologist (d.1705 )December 3 –St John Brodrick , Irish Member of Parliament (d.1711 )December 7 –Countess Louise Henriette of Nassau , Electress Consort of Brandenburg (1646–1667) (d.1667 )December 10 –Jean Baptiste de Champaigne , Flemish painter (d.1681 )December 24 –Daniel Pawłowski , Polish writer (d.1673 )December 28 –Alessandro Rosi , Italian artist (d.1697 )Olivier van Noort Jahangir January 14 –John Casimir, Count of Erbach-Breuberg (1606–1627) (b.1584 )January 27 –Princess Cecilia of Sweden (b.1540 )February 18 –Edmund Bowyer , English politician (b.1552 )February 12 –Karl I, Prince of Liechtenstein (b.1569 )February 22 –Olivier van Noort , Dutch navigator (b.1558 )March 26 –Simon VII, Count of Lippe -Detmold (1613–1627) (b.1587 )March 6 –Krzysztof Zbaraski , Polish statesman (b.1580 )March 10 –Elizabeth de Vere, Countess of Derby , British businessman (b.1575 )March 20 –Johann Jacob Grasser , Swiss poet, historian and theologian (b.1579 )March 23 –Lodovico Zacconi , Italian composer and music theorist (b.1555 )March 27 – SirJohn Suckling , English politician (b.1569 ).[ 9] April 22 –Ahmad Baba al Massufi , Malian academic (b.1556 )May 2 –Lodovico Grossi da Viadana , Italian composer (b.1560 )May 3 –Edward Russell, 3rd Earl of Bedford , son of Sir Francis Russell (b.1572 )May 13 –Alexander, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg (b.1573 )May 18 –Valerius Herberger , German theologian (b.1562 )May 19 –Katharina Henot , German General Postmaster, alleged witch (b.1570 )May 24 –Luis de Góngora , Spanish poet (b.1561 )[ 10] June 4 –Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier , French princess (b.1605 )June 27 – SirJohn Hayward , English historian (b. c.1560 )July 4 (bur.) –Thomas Middleton , English playwright (b.1580 )July 17 –Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, 5th Marquis of Villafranca , Spanish noble and politician (b.1546 )August 21 –Jacques Mauduit , French composer (b.1557 )[ 11] August 27 –Francesco Maria del Monte , Italian Catholic cardinal (b.1549 )September 20 –Jan Gruter , Dutch scholar (b.1560 )October 28 –Jahangir , Mughal Emperor of India (b.1569 )November 5 –John Ratcliffe , English politician and soldier (b.1582 )November 8 –Louis II, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (b.1565 )December –Madame Ke , influential nanny of the Tianqi Emperor of China (b. c.1588 )December 25 –Vincenzo II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua , Italian duke and Catholic cardinal (b.1594 )date unknown ^ Iisalmi: Historia (in Finnish)^a b c Þorsteinn Helgason."Hvaða heimildir eru til um Tyrkjaránið?" .Vísindavefurinn (in Icelandic). 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