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Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th centuryDecades: 1570s 1580s 1590s 1600s 1610s - 1620s - 1630s - 1640s 1650s 1660s 1670s
Years: 1618 1619 1620 1621 1622 - 1623 - 1624 1625 1626 1627 1628
Events
- August 6 - Pope Urban VIII is elected to the Papacy.
- Mustafa I becomes Ottoman Emperor succeeding Osman II, but is then succeeded by Murat IV.
- The Safavids recapture Baghdad.
- England first colonizes Saint Kitts and Nevis.
- Wilhelm Schickard invents his "Calculating Clock", and early mechanical calculator.
- Procopius's long-lost Secret History is rediscovered in the Vatican Library.
- Giambattista Marini publishes his long poem Adone.
- Tommaso Campanella publishes The City of the Sun.
- Johannes Rudbeck founds Rudbeckianska Gymnasiet, first gymnasium in Sweden.
- The Avedis Zildjian Company begins making cymbals at Constantinople.
- Second Thanksgiving celebrated at Plymouth Plantation.
- Erotomania is first mentioned in a psychiatric treatise.
- June 19 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher
- August 5 - Marc Antonio Cesti, composer (+ 1669)
- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (+ 1673)
- Empress Meisho of Japan
- July 4 - William Byrd, composer
- July 18 - Pope Gregory XV
- Andrea Andreani, Italian engraver
- William Camden, historian
