1627

Events

• 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.
• Siege of La Rochelle begins
• Korea becomes a tributary state of China

Births

• January 25 - Robert Boyle, chemist († 1691)
• November 29 - John Ray, biologist
• Shivaji
• Sir Stephen Fox
• Sir John Flavel
• Jacques-Bnigne Bossuet
• Philip Fruytiers
• John Wilson

Deaths

• April 19 - Sir John Beaumont
• June 27 - Sir John Hayward
• September 20 - Jan Gruter (or Gruytere)
• Sir John Suckling
• Thomas Middleton

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