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1621 Calendar

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•  February 9, 1621 – Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.
•  February 17, 1621 – Myles Standish is appointed as first commander of Plymouth colony.
•  March 16, 1621 – Samoset, a Mohegan, visited the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, “Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset.”
•  March 22, 1621 – The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.
•  April 5, 1621 – The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to Great Britain.
•  May 24, 1621 – The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.
•  June 3, 1621 – The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherlands.
•  June 21, 1621 – Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.

•  February 2, 1621 – Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian humanist (d. 1679)
•  March 31, 1621 – Andrew Marvell, English poet (d. 1678)
•  April 23, 1621 – William Penn, English admiral (d. 1670)
•  April 25, 1621 – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (d. 1679)
•  July 8, 1621 – Jean de la Fontaine, French writer (d. 1695)
•  July 22, 1621 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician (d. 1683)
•  August 19, 1621 – Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (d. 1674)
•  September 5, 1621 – Juan Andrés Coloma, Spanish noble (d. 1694)
•  November 20, 1621 – Avvakum, Russian priest and writer (d. 1682)
•  December 23, 1621 – Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1682)