1627

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1590s  1600s  1610s  – 1620s –  1630s  1640s  1650s
Years:	1624 1625 1626 – 1627 – 1628 1629 1630

Events

• July 22 – English under the Duke of Buckingham invade the Ré Island in support of the Huguenots in La Rochelle. The invasion does not go well.
• A Dutch ship makes the first recorded sighting of the coast of South Australia.

The aurochs

• 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