The Pilgrims and members of the Wampanoag tribe (who ate at the first Thanksgiving) ate pumpkins and other squashes that are native to New England.
In the year 1619, the first African slaves are brought to New England (though actually they were not the first ones) (August), 38 colonists from England land in Berkeley Hundred, Virginia and give thanks to God (considered by some to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas) (Dec 4), Kajaani Castle in central Finland is built, the Danish–Dutch whaling settlement of Smeerenburg is founded in Svalbard, a Spanish expedition sails around Tierra del Fuego, mapping the coast of South America - and all these fine people were born:
1619-0121 Anders Bording* poet/journalist/publisher of the first Danish newspaper - Ribe, Denmark (1677/58)
1619-0124 Yamazaki Ansai* 山崎 闇斎 Buddhist monk/philosopher/scholar - Kyoto, Japan (1682/63)
1619-0202 Walter Charleton* natural philosopher/writer - Somerset, England (1707/88)
1619-0205 Tobias Clausnitzer* German pastor/hymn writer - Thum, Saxony (1684/65)
1619-0224 Charles Le Brun (B) painter/ physiognomist/director of art schools - Paris, France (1690/70)
1619-0226 Francesco Morosini* the Doge of Venice - Venice, Republic of Venice (1694/74)
1619-0305 Joseph Ames* naval commander/in charge of transporting several royal prisoners to the colonies in the west - Great Yarmouth, England (1695/76)
1619-0306 Cyrano de Bergerac* novelist/playwright/duelist - Paris, France (1655/36)
1619-0421 Jan van Riebeeck* Dutch navigator/colonial administrator - Free City of Culemborg, Holy Roman Empire (1677/57)
1619-0430 Johannes Spilberg* German painter/active in Amsterdam - Düsseldorf (1690/71)
1619-0613 Jan Victors (B) Dutch painter - Amsterdam (1676/57)
1619-0713 Birgitta Durell* (b von Crakow) Dutch-Swedish industrialist/ provider of socks for the Swedish army - Hoorn, Netherlands (1683/c.64)
1619-0806 Barbara Strozzi (B) (b Valle) singer/composer - Venice, Republic of Venice (1677/58)
1619-0920 Sophie Elisabeth Pentz* daughter of King Christian IV of Denmark - Skanderborg, Denmark (1657/37)
1619-1008 Philipp von Zesen* German poet/ hymnist/writer - Priorau, Holy Roman Empire (1689/70)
1619-1018 Jean Armand de Maillé-Brézé* nobleman/admiral - Milly-le-Meugon, Maine-et-Loire, France (1646/27)
1619-1105 Philip de Koninck* landscape painter - Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (1688/68)
1619-1213 Andrij Savka* Ukrainian bandit/folk hero/“Robin Hood of the Lemkos” - Stebnik, Austria-Hungary (1661/c.41)
1619-1227 Prince Rupert of the Rhine* German-English army officer/scientist/colonial governor - Prague, Bohemia (1682/62)
1619-1228 Antoine Furetière* scholar/ writer/lexicographer - Paris, France (1688/68)
Updated 19.62022-1
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