1625

Decades: 1570s 1580s 1590s 1600s 1610s - 1620s - 1630s - 1640s 1650s 1660s 1670s

Years: 1620 1621 1622 1623 1624 - 1625 - 1626 1627 1628 1629 1630

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

• March 27 - Prince Charles Stuart becomes King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland.
• June 13 - Marriage of Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria, Princess of France and Navarra.
• The English Parliament refuses to vote Charles I the right to collect customs duties for his entire reign, restricting him to one year instead.
• William Oughtred invents the slide rule.
• James Ussher becomes Archbishop of Armagh.
• New Netherlands director Wilhem Verhulst commissions the construction of Fort Amsterdam on the southern tip of Manhattan.

• 1625 in literature
• 1625 in science

• Giovanni Cassini, Italian astronomer and engineer (died 1712)

• March 27 - King James I of England, Scotland and Ireland.
• June 5 - Orlando Gibbons, composer
• Johann Bayer, astronomer