1627

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

Years: 1622 1623 1624 1625 1626 - 1627 - 1628 1629 1630 1631 1632

Table of contents

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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.

• 1627 in literature
• 1627 in science

• January 25 - Robert Boyle, chemist († 1691)
• John Ray, biologist
• John Wilson
• Sivaji
• Sir Stephen Fox
• Sir John Flavel
• Jaques Benigne Bossuet
• Robert Boyle
• Philip Fruytiers
• John Wilson

• Jan Gruter (or Gruytere)
• Sir John Beaumont
• Sir John Suckling
• Sir John Hayward
• Thomas Middleton