1627

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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).

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Events of 1627

Undated

Births

Deaths

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.

★ Korea becomes a tributary state of China.

★ 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''

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★ Sir John Flavel, English dissenter (died 1691)

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★ Philip Fruytiers, Flemish painter (died 1666)

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★ Roland Roghman, Dutch painter (died 1692)

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★ Turhan Hatice, regent of the Ottoman empire (died 1682)
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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''

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★ Hendrick Jacobszoon Lucifer, Dutch pirate and buccaneer (b. 1583)

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★ Thomas Middleton, English playwright (born 1580)

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★ Sir John Suckling, English politician (born 1569)
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