Events from 1621

Dutch West India Company chartered - innovations include dividend policy and director liability rules

Jakob Böhme's mystical writings begin circulating - Lutheran shoemaker claims divine revelations - 'God is in all things, and all things are in God' - Influences later Pietists and Quakers

Public pressure forces token response from James I - London crowds demand 'War for the Princess!' - But James still pursuing Spanish marriage while Elizabeth in exile

Dutch commit genocide in Banda Islands - kill or enslave 14,000 of 15,000 inhabitants to control nutmeg monopoly

Death of St. Robert Bellarmine - Doctor of the Church, wrote 'Disputations on the Controversies of the Christian Faith'