1627

Year 1627 was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1627

• July 4 - July 19 - Muslim raids on Iceland (The Turkish abductions)
• July 22 - English under the Duke of Buckingham invade the Ré Island in support of the Huguenots in La Rochelle. The invasion does not go well.
• July 27 - An earthquake destroys the cities of San Severo and Torremaggiore in southern Italy.
• September - Siege of La Rochelle begins.

Undated

• A Dutch ship makes the first recorded sighting of the coast of South Australia.
• The aurochs are hunted to extinction, the last being killed by poachers in Poland.
• England places the first European settlers on Barbados.
• After the First Manchu invasion of Korea, the Joseon Dynasty of Korea becomes a tributary state of the Manchus, but still pays respects to the Ming Dynasty of China. After rejecting a Manchu alteration to the original diplomatic terms in 1636, the Manchus invaded again the following year in 1637.
• Black gun powder is first used in mining, in a mineshaft under Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia.

Births

• January 25 - Robert Boyle, Irish scientist (died 1691)
• March 27 - Sir Stephen Fox, English statesman (died 1716)
• May 29 - Anne, Duchess of Montpensier, French bishop and writer (died 1704)
• November 29 - John Ray, English biologist (died 1705)
• date unknown
  • Sir John Flavel, English dissenter (died 1691)
  • Philip Fruytiers, Flemish painter (died 1666)
  • Roland Roghman, Dutch painter (died 1692)
  • Turhan Hatice, regent of the Ottoman empire (died 1682)

See also Category:1627 births.

Deaths

• February 22 - Olivier van Noort, Dutch navigator (born 1558)
• March 6 - Krzysztof Zbaraski, Polish statesman (born 1580)
• April 19 - Sir John Beaumont, English poet (born 1583)
• May 2 - Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Italian composer (born 1560)
• May 24 - Luis de Góngora, Spanish poet (born 1561)
• June 27 - Sir John Hayward, English historian (born c. 1560)
• August 21 - Jacques Mauduit, French composer (born 1557)
• September 20 - Jan Gruter, Dutch scholar (born 1560)
• October 28 - Jahangir, Mughal Emperor of India (born 1569)
• date unknown
  • Hendrick Jacobszoon Lucifer, Dutch pirate and buccaneer (b. 1583)
  • Thomas Middleton, English playwright (born 1580)
  • Sir John Suckling, English politician (born 1569)

See also Category:1627 deaths.

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