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1621 AD January 12 – Şehzade Mehmed, the 15-year-old half-brother of Ottoman Sultan Osman II, is put to death by hanging on Osman's orders. Before dying, Mehmed prays aloud that Osman's reign as Sultan will end soon. It seems that his dying prayer was granted to him. Osman died the next year!

1622 year of the Jamestown massacre

1623 in Roman Numerals is MDCXXIII

1624 Cardinal Richelieu is appointed by Louis XIII of France to be his chief minister (and some centuries later, Dumas will blacken his name for all eternity, making him the bad guy in the Three Musketeers!)

1625: the year that Dutch politician Johan de Witt was born

1626 King Charles I of England is crowned. He will be the first king to lose his head on the executioner's block, setting a very bad example.

1627 The last Aurochs dies in Poland (yes, humanity always had the habit of making species extinct)

Pure Insight 1628 is a charity based in Stockport in the UK, which works with young care leavers aged 16-28. Its range of projects include Mentoring, a Drop in Café providing practical and emotional support, intensive support to parents, and support for young adults experiencing mental health problems.

1629 Charles I of England dissolved the parliament (and it did not end well for both him and the parliament!)

1630 - Charles II born May 29th

1631 - Mumtaz Mahal, wife of Shah Jehan, dies in childbirth. In his grief he commissions the Taj Mahal and construction begins in 1632.

After 14th births!

1632 Two great philosophers were born this year, Locke and Spinoza. (they didn't die together, though, Spinoza died quite young at age of 44 where Locke managed to get to 72, a little rare for this time)

1633 Samuel Pepys born Feb 23

1634 Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, signs a classified order dismissing Albrecht von Wallenstein, the supreme commander of the Imperial Army. Wallenstein was prepared for this eventuality and had his officers sign an oath of royalty. This fails to protect him, though, from assassination.

1635 - year of birth of Robert Hooke, scientist and polymath and he of Hooke's Law.

1636 The shogun forbids all Japanese to travel outside the empire. At the same time, foreigners who set foot in Japan will be executed.

1637.
Famously the number of seconds in 27 minutes 17 seconds.

1638 is of course the eighth lowest harmonic divisor number

1639 has nice multiples of 3 in it. 6, 3, 9, 63, 39, 639. 1639/3 = 546.333333333 which means 1639 has infinite threes after being divided by three.

1640 is a prionic number and the product of 40*41