* 1620 – The Speedwell leaves Delfshaven to bring pilgrims to America by way of England.

* 1620 – István Gyöngyösi, Hungarian poet ( d. 1704 )

Alexander Anderson ( c. 1592, Aberdeen – c. 1620, Paris ) was a Scottish mathematician.

* 1582 – Taichang Emperor, of China ( d. 1620 )

* 1620 – Marguerite Bourgeoys, French founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal ( d. 1700 )

* 1620 – The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England on its first attempt to reach North America.

Aelbert Jacobsz Cuyp ( October 20, 1620 – November 15, 1691 ) was one of the leading Dutch landscape painters of the Dutch Golden Age in the 17th century.

* Laurent Bénard ( 1573 – 1620 )

* 1620 – Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

* 1620 – Roemer Visscher, Dutch writer ( b. 1547 )

* 1620 – François Charpentier, French archaeologist ( d. 1702 )

Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta ( 1526 / 1535 – 1605 / 1620 ) was an Italian Renaissance dancing master and a composer or transcriber of dance music.

* 1620 – Frederick William, Duke of Prussia ( d. 1688 )

Over time it became clear these privileges would be open to abuse and when in 1620 the Huguenots proclaimed a constitution for the ' Republic of the Reformed Churches of France ', the Prime Minister Cardinal Richelieu ( 1585 – 1642 ) invoked the entire powers of the state.

John Alden ( 1599 – September 12, 1687 ) is said to be the first person from the Mayflower to set foot on Plymouth Rock in 1620.

* 1620 – Jean Picard, French astronomer ( d. 1682 )

* Lady Anne Hamilton ( 1592 – 1620 ), married Hugh Sempill, 5th Lord Sempill and had issue

( 2002 ) Politics, Society and Civil War in Warwickshire, 1620 – 1660.

* 1684 – Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest ( b. 1620 )

* 1620 – St. John Sarkander, Moravian priest, died of injuries caused by torturing ( b. 1576 )

* 1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

* 1620 – The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.

* 1620 – Peregrine White, first English child born in the Plymouth Colony ( d. 1704 )

* 1620 – Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact ( November 11, O. S.

* 1620 – John Evelyn, English diarist ( d. 1706 )

Among the committee's members were John Evelyn ( 1620 – 1706 ), Thomas Sprat ( 1635 – 1713 ), and John Dryden ( 1631 – 1700 ).

* John Carver ( 1576 ?- 1621 ), Leader and First Governor of the Plymouth Colony, in office 1620 – 1621

* December 20 – Saint John Sarkander, Moravian priest ( d. 1620 )

* February 27 – John Evelyn, English writer, gardener and diarist ( b. 1620 )

Important composers included William Byrd ( 1543 – 1623 ), John Dowland ( 1563 – 1626 ) Thomas Campion ( 1567 – 1620 ), and Robert Johnson ( c. 1583 – c.

In 1620, the future site of Portsmouth was recognized as suitable shipbuilding location by John Wood, a shipbuilder, who petitioned King James I of England for a land grant.

Among people associated with Deptford are Christopher Marlowe, who was murdered at Deptford Strand ; diarist John Evelyn ( 1620 – 1706 ) who lived at Sayes Court, and had Peter the Great ( 1672 – 1725 ) as a guest for about three months in 1698 ; and Sir Francis Drake who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I aboard the Golden Hind in Deptford Docks.

* John Cooke, the last surviving male Pilgrim from the 1620 voyage to found the Plymouth colony ( and who was, with Thomas Delano, one of the original buyers of the land from the Wampanoags )

In 1620, John Howland landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts aboard the Mayflower.

John Evelyn ( 31 October 1620 – 27 February 1706 ) was an English writer, gardener and diarist.

By July 1620, Robert Cushman and John Carver had made the necessary arrangements and approximately fifty Separatists departed Delftshaven on board the Speedwell.

This work was continued after Morgan's death by Bishop Richard Parry and Dr John Davies, and a revised version of the Bible was published in 1620.

* February 27, 1706: John Evelyn ( born 1620 )

* John Boyle ( bishop ) ( 1563 – 1620 ), Bishop

Notable examples include John Evelyn ( 1620 – 1706 ), Vita Sackville-West ( 1892 – 1962 ), and Rudyard Kipling ( 1864 – 1936 ).

After 1620 he began active dramatic writing, first as a collaborator with more experienced playwrights — primarily Thomas Dekker, but also John Webster and William Rowley — and by the later 1620s as a solo artist.

His first wife was Ann, daughter of Edward Bell of Writtle, Essex, whom he married in 1589 at St. Margaret's, Westminster, and who died in 1620: they had two sons, John and Robert, and two daughters, Ellen and Honoria, the last of whom died young.

In quick succession, Morison wrote Christopher Columbus, Mariner ( 1955 ), Freedom in Contemporary Society ( 1956 ), The Story of the ' Old Colony ' of New Plymouth, 1620 – 1692 ( 1956 ), Nathaniel Homes Morison ( 1957 ), William Hickling Prescott ( 1958 ), Strategy and Compromise ( 1958 ), and John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography ( 1959 ), which earned Morison his second Pulitzer Prize.

* John Evelyn ( 1620 – 1706 )

* John Davies ( Mallwyd ) ( c. 1567 – 1644 ), lexicographer, translator, and editor of the 1620 Welsh edition of the Bible