In the year AD 1621...

• The Thirty Years War enters its fourth year.
• Robert Burton publishes his satirical masterwork, The Anatomy of Melancholy.

These people were born in 1621...

• Ninth Sikh guru Guru Teg Bahadur.
• French writer and poet Jean de La Fontaine.
• English poet Andrew Marvell.
• English politician Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury.
• Japanese Christian rebel Amakusa Shirō, teenage leader of the Shimabara Rebellion of 1637-38.

These people died in 1621...

• Pope Paul V, succeeded by Gregory XV.

1620 - 1621 - 1622

17th century

How they were made

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