1621
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1621 was the 21st year of the 17th century, and the 2nd year of the 1620s decade.
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Events
- March 31 – King Philip IV of Spain begins his 44-year rule.
- April – The Twelve Years' Truce between the Dutch Republic and the Spanish Empire expires, and both sides prepare to resume the Eighty Years' War.
- June 3 – The Dutch West India Company is founded.
- June 21 – Thirty Years' War: Twenty-seven Czech lords are executed on the Old Town Square in Prague, as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.
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Art and culture
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Literature
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Fiction
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Non-fiction
- The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
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Visual art
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Music
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Architecture
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Births
- January 27 – Thomas Willis, English doctor who played an important part in the history of anatomy (d. 1675)
- March 31
- April 25 – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, Anglo-Irish soldier, statesman and dramatist (d. 1679)
- June 2 - Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter (d. 1649)– Andrew Marvell, English metaphysical poet and politician (d. 1678)
- July 1 – Cornelis de Man, Dutch painter (d. 1706)
- July 8 - Jean de La Fontaine, French writer (d. 1695)
- July 24 – Jan Andrzej Morsztyn, Polish poet (d. 1693)
- August 19 – Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (d. 1674)
- c.Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, German writer (Simplicius Simplicissimus) (d. 1676)
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Deaths
- January 28 – Pope Paul V (b. 1552)
- February 10 – Pietro Aldobrandini, Italian cardinal, patron of the arts (b. 1571)
- February 15 – Michael Praetorius, German composer (b. 1571)
- February 28 – Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1590)
- March 31 – King Philip III of Spain, (Philip II of Portugal) (b. 1578)
- April 1 – Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (b. 1577)
- July 13 – Albert VII, Archduke of Austria for a few months in 1619 and (b. 1559)
- August 15 – John Barclay, Scottish writer (b. 1582)
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