Major Events
- Jun 3 Dutch West India Company (WIC) receives charter for The West Indies (The Americas, Caribbean and West Africa)
- Sep 21 King James I of England gives Sir William Alexander a royal charter for colonisation of Nova Scotia
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Born in 1621
- Jan 27 Thomas Willis, English physician (d. 1675)
- Feb 2 Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian-born humanist (d. 1679)
- Feb 14 Sybilla Schwarz, German baroque poet, born in Greifswald, Germany (d. 1638)
- Mar 7 Georg Neumark, German composer and poet, born in Langensalza, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1681)
- Mar 28 Heinrich Schwemmer, German composer, born in Gumpertshausen bei Hallburg, Electorate of the Palatinate, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1696)
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Famous Weddings in 1621
- Nov 8 John Wheelwright, English-American Puritan clergyman, marries Mary Storre in Lincolnshire
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