1627

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 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