From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Calendar year
April 8 : The
Winthrop Fleet , with 400 people on three ships, sails towards
New England .
July 6 :
Gustav Adolf of Sweden makes landfall in
Pomerania .
1630 (
MDCXXX ) was a
common year starting on Tuesday of the
Gregorian calendar and a
common year starting on Friday of the
Julian calendar , the 1630th year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 630th year of the
2nd millennium , the 30th year of the
17th century , and the 1st year of the
1630s decade. As of the start of 1630, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
January 2 – A shoemaker in
Turin is found to have the first case of bubonic plague there as the
plague of 1630 begins spreading through Italy.
January 5 – A team of Portuguese military advisers to China's Ming dynasty government arrive at
Zhuozhou . Led by
Gonçalo Teixeira Corrêa , and accompanied by interpreter
João Rodrigues , the group begins training the troops of Governor
Sun Yuanhua in using modern cannons.
January 11 –
Otto III and his brother
William Augustus , both, Dukes of Brunswick-Harburg, sell their rights to inherit rule of
Brunswick-Lüneburg to
Prince Christian for in return of his payment of their debts of more than 150,000 thaler.
January 13 – In China, General
Yuan Chonghuan is invited to an audience with the
Chongzhen Emperor and is arrested on charges of collusion with the enemy. Yuan is executed by the slow death on September 22.
January 18 –
Nicolò Contarini is elected as the new
Doge of the
Republic of Venice and spends most of his time fighting a
bubonic plague epidemic, but dies in office on April 2, 1631.
February 22 –
Native American Quadequine introduces
popcorn to English colonists.
March 3 – A fleet sent by the
Dutch West India Company captures
Recife from the Portuguese, establishing
Dutch Brazil .
March 9 – The
1630 Crete earthquake occurs.
March –
Fedorovych Uprising :
Zaporozhian Cossacks rebel against the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth , and occupy a large part of modern-day Ukraine. After a number of indecisive skirmishes with a Polish army sent to pacify the region, the
Treaty of Pereyaslav is signed, ending the uprising.
April 8 –
Puritan migration to New England (1620-1640) :
Winthrop Fleet – The ship
Arbella and three others set sail from the
Solent in England, with 400 passengers under the leadership of
John Winthrop , headed for the
Massachusetts Bay Colony in America; seven more, with another 300 aboard, follow in the next few weeks.
May 4 – In an invasion of Persia, Ottoman Empire Grand Vizier
Gazi Hüsrev Pasha routs the Persians in a battle at Mahidasht near Kermanshah.
May 17
The first case of plague is reported in
Milan . By the end of 1631, the city of 250,000 suffers 186,000 deaths, losing almost three-quarters of its population to plague.
Italian astronomers
Niccolò Zucchi and
Daniello Bartoli become the first scientists to observe the belts on the planet
Jupiter .
May 20 – The
Swedish National Heritage Board (Riksantikvarieämbetet ) is created, with
Johannes Bureus as its first director. The Board is still in existence almost 400 years later.
May 25 –
Fedorovych uprising : The
Zaporozhian Cossacks , led by
Taras Triasylo , defeat Polish and Lithuanian troops led by General
Stanisław Koniecpolski near
Pereiaslav . The battle is later the subject of the Ukrainian language poem Tarasova nich .
May 29 – The
Battle of Villabuona is fought in Italy at Lombardy, with more than 4,000 French and Venetian troops killed in an attack by
Matthias Gallas of the Holy Roman Empire's army.
June 4 – Scottish-born
Presbyterian (and former physician)
Alexander Leighton is brought before
Archbishop
William Laud 's
Star Chamber court in London for publishing the
seditious pamphlet An Appeale to the Parliament, or, Sions Plea Against the Prelacy , an attack on
Anglican
bishops (printed in the Netherlands, 1628).
[1] He is sentenced to be pilloried and whipped, have his ears cropped, one side of his nose slit, and his face branded with "SS" (for "sower of sedition"), to be imprisoned, and be degraded from holy orders.
[2]
June 6 –
Swedish warships depart from
Stockholm ,
Sweden for
Central Europe .
June 12 –
Massachusetts Bay Colony is founded, with
John Winthrop as governor.
[3]
June 14 – Passengers of the
Arbella , including
Anne Bradstreet , America's first poet of significance, finally set foot in the
New World at
Salem, Massachusetts .
July 6
July 9 –
Thirty Years' War :
Stettin is taken by Swedish forces.
July 18 –
War of the Mantuan Succession :
Mantua is sacked by an army of the
Holy Roman Empire , led by Count
Johann von Aldringen .
July 24 – The
Sibbald baronets
British nobility title is created.
[4]
July 30 –
John Winthrop helps in founding a church in
Massachusetts , which will later become known as First Church in
Boston .
July – The
Italian plague of 1629–31 reaches
Venice .
August 13 –
Thirty Years' War : As a result of heavy pressure from the
Prince-electors ,
Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor , dismisses general
Albrecht von Wallenstein from command of the Imperial Army.
August 25 –
Sinhalese–Portuguese War : In the
Battle of Randeniwela on the island of
Sri Lanka ,
King Senarat of
Kandy leads more than 35,000 troops in killing most of an attack force led by Portuguese Ceylon governor
Constantino de Sá de Noronha .
September 4 –
Thirty Years' War : the
Treaty of Stettin is signed by Sweden and the
Duchy of Pomerania , forming a close alliance between them, as well as giving Sweden full military control over Pomerania.
September 7 – Governor
John Winthrop passes a resolution declaring "that Trimontaine" on Shawmut peninsula shall be called
Boston from now on.
[3]
September 17 (September 7
Old Style ) – The settlement of
Boston ,
Massachusetts Bay Colony is founded.
[5]
September 24 – The first ship of de Sauce's emigrants arrive at Southampton Hundred, on the
James River in
Virginia .
Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj
Jan Vermeer van Utrecht
Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten
Charles II of England
Estephan El Douaihy
Olaus Rudbeck
January 3 –
Herbert Westfaling , English politician (d.
1705 )
January 5 –
Manuel da Câmara III , Portuguese noble (d.
1673 )
January 10 –
Edward Blaker , English politician (d.
1678 )
January 11
January 13 –
Ōta Suketsugu , Japanese
daimyō (d.
1685 )
January 16 –
Guru Har Rai , Sikh guru (d.
1661 )
January 18 –
Andrew Balfour , Scottish doctor (d.
1694 )
January 20 –
Philip Florinus of Sulzbach , Austrian field marshal (d.
1703 )
January 25 –
Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1661–1678) (d.
1678 )
January 27 –
Job Adriaenszoon Berckheyde , Dutch painter (d.
1693 )
February 8 –
Pierre Daniel Huet , French churchman and scholar (d.
1721 )
February 12 –
Cornelis Bisschop , Dutch painter (d.
1674 )
February 16 –
Jan Vermeer van Utrecht , Dutch painter (d.
1696 )
February 19 –
Shivaji , Indian warrior king, founder of the Maratha Empire (d.
1680 )
February 20 (bapt.) –
Josefa de Óbidos , Spanish artist (d.
1684 )
March 23 –
Ignace Cotolendi , French bishop (d.
1662 )
March 24 –
José Saenz d'Aguirre , Spanish Catholic cardinal (d.
1699 )
March 25 –
Thierry Beschefer , French Jesuit missionary (d.
1711 )
March 28 –
Silvestro Valiero , Doge of Venice (d.
1700 )
April 1 –
Jacob Boreel , Dutch diplomat and politician (d.
1697 )
April 7 –
Ulrik Christian Gyldenløve , commander-in-chief of the Danish army (d.
1658 )
April 16 –
Lambert van Haven , Danish architect (d.
1695 )
April 21 –
Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten , Dutch painter (d.
1700 )
April 28 –
Charles Cotton , English poet and writer (d.
1687 )
May 3
May 4 –
Hendrik Schoock , Dutch painter (d.
1707 )
May 6 –
Johan Hadorph , Swedish director-general of the Central Board of National Antiquities (d.
1693 )
May 12 –
Jean-Baptiste de Santeul , French writer (d.
1697 )
May 17 –
John Howe , English Puritan theologian (d.
1705 )
May 29 – King
Charles II of England , Scotland, and Ireland (d.
1685 )
[8]
June 1 –
Carlo Barberini , Italian Catholic cardinal (d.
1704 )
June 4 –
Jacques Rousseau , French painter (d.
1693 )
June 7 –
John Talbot of Lacock , English politician and general (d.
1714 )
June 8 –
Wolf Caspar von Klengel , German architect in Saxony (d.
1691 )
June 10 –
Willem van Bemmel , Dutch Golden Age painter (d.
1708 )
June 24 –
Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle , English politician (d.
1691 )
July 22 –
Madame de Brinvilliers , French murderer (d.
1676 )
August 1 –
Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh , English statesman (d.
1673 )
August 2 –
Estephan El Douaihy , Lebanese Maronite Patriarch, historian (d.
1704 )
August 20 or
August 27 –
Maria van Oosterwijck , Dutch Golden Age painter (d.
1693 )
August 22 –
Guy Aldonce de Durfort de Lorges , French noble, soldier (d.
1702 )
August 27 –
Thomas Risley , English Presbyterian minister (d.
1716 )
September 6 –
Thomas Hele , English politician (d.
1665 )
September 17 –
Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma from 1646 until his death (d.
1694 )
September 25 –
Pierre Cally , French philosopher and theologian (d.
1709 )
September 27 –
Michael Willmann , German painter (d.
1706 )
October 2 –
Henry Caesar , English politician (d.
1668 )
October 8 –
Henry Bull , English politician (d.
1692 )
October 10 –
Thomas Lawson , British botanist (d.
1691 )
October 14 –
Sophia of Hanover , heir to the throne of Great Britain (d.
1714 )
October 18 –
Henry Powle , English politician (d.
1692 )
October –
John Tillotson ,
Archbishop of Canterbury (d.
1694 )
November 8 –
Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey , English noble (d.
1701 )
November 12 –
Catherine Duchemin , French flower and fruit painter (d.
1698 )
November 16 –
Edvard Edvardsen , Norwegian historian and educator (d.
1695 )
November 17 –
Hachisuka Mitsutaka , Japanese
daimyō who ruled the
Tokushima Domain (d.
1666 )
November 18 –
Eleonora Gonzaga , Queen consort of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (d.
1686 )
November 24 –
Étienne Baluze , French scholar (d.
1718 ))
[9]
November 27 –
Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria , ruler of Further Austria including Tyrol (1662-1665) (d.
1665 )
December 5 –
Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp , Regent of Anhalt-Zerbst (d.
1680 )
December 12 –
Olaus Rudbeck , Swedish architect (d.
1702 )
December 14 –
Horatio Townshend, 1st Viscount Townshend , English viscount (d.
1687 )
December 16 –
Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort , British botanist (d.
1715 )
December 28 –
Ludolf Bakhuizen , Dutch painter (d.
1708 )
Ambrogio Spinola
Johannes Kepler
January 26 –
Henry Briggs , English mathematician (b.
1556 )
February 12 –
Fynes Moryson , English traveler and writer (b.
1566 )
February 26 –
William Brade , English composer (b.
1560 )
April 2 –
George Talbot, 9th Earl of Shrewsbury , English earl (b.
1566 )
April 10 –
William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke , English noble, courtier and patron of the arts (b.
1580 )
April 17 –
Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg , German prince of the House of Ascania (b.
1568 )
April 19 –
Anne Howard, Countess of Arundel , English countess and poet (b.
1557 )
April 22 –
Agostino Ciampelli , Italian painter (b.
1565 )
April 29 –
Agrippa d'Aubigné , French poet and soldier (b.
1552 )
[11]
May 17 –
Dorothea Flock , German alleged witch (b.
1608 )
May 30 –
Emanuel Scrope, 1st Earl of Sunderland , English noble (b.
1584 )
June 25 –
Jacob Ulfeldt , Danish politician (b.
1567 )
July 26 –
Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (b.
1562 )
[12]
August 11 –
Thomas Walsingham , English spymaster (b.
1561 )
August 22 –
Giulio Mancini , Italian papal physician (b.
1559 )
September 5 –
Nicolaus Mulerius , Dutch astronomer and medical academic (b.
1564 )
September 17 –
Thomas Lake , English statesman (b.
1567 )
September 18 –
Melchior Klesl , Austrian cardinal and statesman (b.
1552 )
September 20 –
Claudio Saracini , Italian composer (b.
1586 )
September 22 –
Yuan Chonghuan , Chinese politician, military general and writer (b.
1584 )
September 24 –
Charles Günther, Count of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (b.
1576 )
September 25 –
Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquis of the Balbases , Italian general (b.
1569 )
October 10 –
John Heminges , English actor (b.
1566 )
October 22 –
Jerónima de la Asunción , Spanish founder of the Monastery of Santa Clara (b.
1555 )
November 15 –
Johannes Kepler , German astronomer (b.
1571 )
[13]
November 9 –
Tōdō Takatora , Japanese daimyo (b.
1556 )
November 18 –
Esaias van de Velde , Dutch painter (b.
1587 )
November 19
November 29 –
Teodósio II, Duke of Braganza (b.
1568 )
December 11 –
Franciscus Dousa , Dutch classical scholar (b.
1577 )
December 19 –
Orazio Riminaldi , Italian painter (b.
1593 )
approx. date
unknown date –
Mariangiola Criscuolo , Italian painter (b. c.
1548 )
^ Theodore Schroeder, Constitutional Free Speech Defined and Defended in an Unfinished Argument in a Case of Blasphemy (Free Speech League, 1919), p. 194
^ Condick, Frances (2004).
"Leighton, Alexander (c.1570–1649)" .
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/16395 . Retrieved March 20, 2013 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
^
a
b Daniel, Clifton (1989). Chronicle of America . Chronicle publication. p. 57.
ISBN
0-13-133745-9 .
^
"Leigh Rayment's list of baronets" . Archived from
the original on October 21, 2019.
^
"Historical note" . Archives Guide - Town of Boston . City of Boston. Archived from
the original on April 20, 2013. Retrieved 2013-03-20 .
^ Robert Chambers, Domestic Annals of Scotland , vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1859), pp. 43-50.
^
"Louis XIII | king of France" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved June 9, 2019 .
^
"Charles II | Biography, Accomplishments, & Facts" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved December 30, 2020 .
^ Keith Busby (1993).
Les Manuscrits de Chrétien de Troyes . Rodopi. p. 95.
ISBN
90-5183-603-1 .
^ Schiavone, Michael J. (2009). Dictionary of Maltese Biographies Vol. 1 A–F .
Pietà : Pubblikazzjonijiet Indipendenza. p. 756.
ISBN
9789993291329 .
^ Samuel Egerton Brydges (1805).
Censura Literaria . Longman. p. 302.
ISBN
9780404012106 .
^
"Charles Emmanuel I | duke of Savoy | Britannica" . www.britannica.com . Retrieved March 10, 2022 .
^ University of Texas at Austin. Humanities Research Center; Johannes Kepler (1971).
Johannes Kepler, 1571-1630: Exhibit of Books, Manuscripts and Related Materials, Quadricentennial Celebration . University of Texas at Austin. p. 3.
The Imperial House of Japan . 1959.