1627

Year 1627 was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1627

• July 4 – July 19 – Turkish Abductions: The Barbary pirates raid Iceland.
• July 22 – The English, under the Duke of Buckingham, invade Ré Island in support of the Huguenots in La Rochelle. The invasion does not go well.
• July 27 – An earthquake destroys the cities of San Severo and Torremaggiore in southern Italy.
• September – The Siege of La Rochelle begins.

Undated

• A Dutch ship makes the first recorded sighting of the coast of South Australia.
• The aurochs are hunted to extinction, the last being killed by poachers in Poland.
• England places the first European settlers on Barbados.
• After the First Manchu invasion of Korea, the Joseon Dynasty of Korea becomes a tributary state of the Manchus, but still pays respects to the Ming Dynasty of China. After rejecting a Manchu alteration to the original diplomatic terms in 1636, the Manchus invade again in 1637.
• Rock blasting invented: black gun powder is first used in mining, in a mineshaft under Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia.
• Archduke Ferdinand III of Austria, heir apparent of the Habsburg Monarchy and a future Holy Roman Emperor, already King of Hungary ascends to be king of the religiously troubled Bohemia where his (still living) father's repression of Protestantism had triggered the ongoing Thirty Years' War in 1618.

Births

• January 25 – Robert Boyle, Irish scientist (d. 1691)
• February 19 – Shivaji, also known as Chhatrapati Shivaji Raje Bhosle, founder of the Maratha Empire in western India in 1674 (d. 1680)
• March 27 – Sir Stephen Fox, English statesman (d. 1716)
• May 29 – Anne, Duchess of Montpensier, French bishop and writer (d. 1704)
• November 29 – John Ray, English biologist (d. 1705)
• date unknown
  • Sir John Flavel, English dissenter (d. 1691)
  • Philip Fruytiers, Flemish painter (d. 1666)
  • Roland Roghman, Dutch painter (d. 1692)
  • Turhan Hatice, regent of the Ottoman empire (d. 1682)

Deaths

• February 22 – Olivier van Noort, Dutch navigator (b. 1558)
• March 6 – Krzysztof Zbaraski, Polish statesman (b. 1580)
• April 19 – Sir John Beaumont, English poet (b. 1583)
• May 2 – Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Italian composer (b. 1560)
• May 24 – Luis de Góngora, Spanish poet (b. 1561)
• June 27 – Sir John Hayward, English historian (b. c. 1560)
• August 21 – Jacques Mauduit, French composer (b. 1557)
• September 20 – Jan Gruter, Dutch scholar (b. 1560)
• October 28 – Jahangir, Mughal Emperor of India (b. 1569)
• date unknown
  • Hendrick Jacobszoon Lucifer, Dutch pirate and buccaneer (b. 1583)
  • Thomas Middleton, English playwright (b. 1580)
  • Sir John Suckling, English politician (b. 1569)