* 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 – 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 – 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.

Despite earlier settlements by England in The Americas, ( 1607: Jamestown, 1609: Bermuda, and 1620: Plymouth Colony, and closer to Barbadoes the Leeward Islands were claimed by the English at about the same time as Barbados: 1623: St Kitts, 1628: Nevis, 1632: Montserrat, 1632: Antigua.

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.

* St Andrews ( 1620 ) ( confirmation of de facto status )

The Kedermister Library, at Langley near Slough in the English county of Berkshire ( formerly Buckinghamshire ), is a rare surviving example of an early 17th century parish library, preserved in situ in the decorated cupboards designed for it in 1620 in the parish church of St Mary the Virgin.

" Bulstrode was educated briefly at Eton College, then at Merchant Taylors ' School and at St John's College, Oxford, where he matriculated on 8 December 1620.

It was created in 1620 for Sir Oliver St John, the Lord Deputy of Ireland, with special remainder to the male issue of his niece Barbara, wife of Sir Edward Villiers, elder half-brother of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, Christopher Villiers, 1st Earl of Anglesey and John Villiers, 1st Viscount Purbeck.

In 1675, Robert graduated from Trinity College, Dublin with a B. A .. On 15 August 1676, shortly before his 20th birthday, he was married in Dublin to Letitia Coote, third daughter of Richard Coote ( 1620 – 1683 ), 1st Baron Colooney, and Mary St. George, daughter of George St. George, Deputy Admiral of Connaught.

State House, Bermuda | The State House, the home of Bermuda's Parliament of Bermuda | parliament in St. George's from 1620 until the capital's relocation to Hamilton, Bermuda | Hamilton in 1815.

Elsewhere around the town there are a multitude of historical sites such as the old State House ( the first stone building in Bermuda, other than fortifications, built in 1620 to house Bermuda's Parliament, and today the oldest building on the island ), the Unfinished Church, the Old Rectory, St. Peter's ( the oldest surviving Anglican and oldest continuously occupied Protestant church in the Western hemisphere ), the Tucker House, the Bermuda National Trust Museum, and the St. George's Historical Society Museum and the Featherbed Alley Printshop museum ( both in the Mitchell House ).

An ecclesiastical college in the Philippines was named after the Basilica of St. John Lateran, the Colegio de San Juan de Letran, founded in 1620.

* Parish church of St. Bartholomew and John the Baptist ( 1586-1589 ), with 1620 organs, and 1615 pulpit,

In Europe, some early paintings featuring girls were Petrus Christus ' Portrait of a Young Girl ( about 1460 ), Juan de Flandes ' Portrait of a Young Girl ( about 1505 ), Frans Hals ' Die Amme mit dem Kind in 1620, Diego Velázquez ' Las Meninas in 1656, Jan Steen's The Feast of St. Nicolas ( about 1660 ) and Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring along with Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window.

In an interview published in the February 8, 1934 edition of the St. Petersburg Times of Florida, the former governor of Michigan, Chase Osborn, a friend of both Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt, provided detailed information of alleged Jewish origins of the entire Roosevelt family, claiming they were descendants of " the Rossacampo family expelled from Spain in 1620 ", some of whom settled in Holland where most, but not all, had converted to Christianity.

* In St. George's, Bermuda, the original parliament building, built in 1620, is called the State House.

He was born in Berchem, Belgium, near Antwerp, where he became a member of the Guild of St. Luke in 1620.

Other works were the great altars at Santa Clara in Seville and at San Miguel in Jerez, the Immaculate Conception and the realistic figure of Christ Crucified in Cristo de la Clemencìa, commissioned in 1603, in the sacristy of Seville cathedral ( illustration ); the figure of St John the Baptist, and the St Bruno ( 1620 ); a tomb for Don Pérez de Guzmán and his wife ( 1619 ); the highly realistic polychromed wood head and hands of St Ignatius of Loyola ( 1610 ) and of St Francis Xavier in the university church of Seville, where the costumed figures were used in celebrations.

The son of Andrew Benlowes of Brent Hall, Essex, he matriculated at St Johns College, Cambridge, in 1620, and on leaving the university he made a prolonged tour on the continent of Europe.

Thomas Manton was baptized March 31, 1620 at Lydeard St Lawrence, Somerset, a remote southwestern portion of England.