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Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century Decades: 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. Births 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 Deaths July 4 - William Byrd, composer July 18 - Pope Gregory XV Andrea Andreani, Italian engraver William Camden, historian
Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades: 1570s 1580s 1590s 1600s 1610s - 1620s - 1630s - 1640s 1650s 1660s 1670s
Years: 1618 1619 1620 1621 1622 - 1623 - 1624 1625 1626 1627 1628
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