* 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.

* 1620 – John Graunt, English statistician and founder of the science of demography ( d. 1674 )

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 – 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.

** Roemer Visscher, Dutch writer ( d. 1620 )

Hooft. In Amsterdam, a circle of poets and playwrights formed around Maecenas-like figure Roemer Visscher ( 1547 – 1620 ), which would eventually be known as the Muiderkring (" Circle of Muiden ") after the residence of its most prominent member, Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft ( 1581 – 1647 ), writer of pastoral and lyric poetry and history.

Roemer Pieterszoon Visscher ( 1547 – 19 February 1620 ) was a successful Dutch merchant and writer in the period often called the Dutch Golden Age.

* November 15 – Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter ( b. 1620 )

* February 18 – Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Dutch painter ( b. 1620 )

Diplomatic agreements in Europe in 1620 ushered in a period of cooperation between the Dutch and the English over the spice trade.

Although Dutch potters did not immediately imitate Chinese porcelain, they began to after the death of the Wanli Emperor in 1620, when the supply to Europe was interrupted.

The town is named for 1620 Dutch captain named Cornelius Jacobsen Mey who explored and charted the area between 1611 – 1614, and established a claim for the province of New Netherland.

His great-great-great-grandfather, Jan Aertszoon or Aertson ( 1620 – 1705 ), was a Dutch / Romanian farmer from the village of De Bilt, Utrecht, Netherlands, who emigrated to the Dutch colony of New Netherland as an indentured servant in 1650.

Around 1620, the Dutch East India Company contacted the English architect Inigo Jones asking him to design a fortification for the harbor.

* Albert Cuyp ( Dutch, 1620 – 1691 ) Dordrecht School landscape painter

Even after the Battle of White Mountain of November 1620, which ended disastrously for the Protestant army ( one-eighth of which was in the Dutch pay ), the Dutch continued to support Frederick militarily, both in Bohemia and in the Palatinate.

When James sent 4, 000 English troops in September 1620, those were armed and transported by the Dutch, and their advance covered by a Dutch cavalry column.

Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel ( 1572 – November 7, 1633 ) was the Dutch builder of the first navigable submarine in 1620.

In 1620 it was occupied by the Dutch Republic until the Spanish took the fortress after five months of siege.

Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem ( 1 October 1620 – 18 February 1683 ) was a highly esteemed and prolific Dutch Golden Age painter of pastoral landscapes, populated with mythological or biblical figures, but also of a number of allegories and genre pieces.

Honthorst returned to Utrecht in 1620, and went on to build a considerable reputation both in the Dutch Republic and abroad.

After 1620, the Dutch and English both closed their warehouses, but a prosperous trade continued, mainly with the Chinese, Japanese, and Portuguese, for much of the rest of the century.

* Garland ( 1620 ), a middling ship launched in 1620, and captured by the Dutch in 1652.