1630

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Years: 1627 1628 1629 - 1630 - 1631 1632 1633

Decades: 1600s 1610s 1620s - 1630s - 1640s 1650s 1660s

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1630 by topic: Arts and Science Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science Lists of leaders Colonial governors - State leaders Birth and death categories Births - Deaths Establishments and disestablishments categories Establishments - Disestablishments Works category Works 1630 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 1630 MDCXXX Ab urbe condita 2383 Armenian calendar 1079 ԹՎ ՌՀԹ Chinese calendar 4266/4326-11-18 (己巳年十一月十八日) — to — 4267/4327-11-28 (庚午年十一月廿八日) Ethiopian calendar 1622 – 1623 Hebrew calendar 5390 – 5391 Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat 1685 – 1686 - Shaka Samvat 1552 – 1553 - Kali Yuga 4731 – 4732 Iranian calendar 1008 – 1009 Islamic calendar 1040 – 1041 Japanese calendar - Imperial Year Kōki 2290 (皇紀2290年) - Jōmon Era 11630 Thai solar calendar 2173

1630 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

[edit] Events

• February 22 - Native American Quadequine introduces popcorn to English colonists.
• March 22 - Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
• June 6 - Swedish warships depart from Stockholm to Germany.
• June 26 - July 6 - Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus land in Pomerania, Germany to aid Protestants.
• July 6 - Success, last ship of the Winthrop Fleet, lands safely at Salem harbor, MBC.
• September 17 - The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.
• September 24 - First ship of de Sauce's emigrants arrive at Southampton Hundred on the James River.
• November 10-November 11 – Day of Dupes – Marie de Medicis' unsuccessful attempt to oust Richelieu.
• Johann Heinrich Alsted's Encyclopaedia is published.
• The first account of the Childes Tomb story is published.
• Paramaribo, Suriname is first settled by the British.
• Puritan pamphleteer Dr. Alexander Leighton publishes "Zion's Plea Against Prelacy: An Appeal to Parliament", an attack on Anglican bishops, in London. He was sentenced by Archbishop William Laud's High Commission Court to public whipping, branding, and having his ears cut off.

[edit] Births

• January 11 - John Rogers, American President of Harvard (died 1684)
• February 19 - Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire (died 1680)
• April 28 - Charles Cotton, English poet (died 1687)
• May 29 - King Charles II of England Scotland, and Ireland (died 1685)
• August 1 - Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (died 1673)
• October 14 - Sophia of Hanover, heir to the throne of Great Britain (died 1714)
• October - John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1694)
• November 24 - Etienne Baluze, French scholar (died 1718)
• November 27 - Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria, regent of Tyrol and Further Austria (died 1665)

See also Category:1630 births.

[edit] Deaths

• January 26 - Henry Briggs, English mathematician (born 1556)
• February 12 - Fynes Moryson, English traveler and writer (born 1566)
• February 26 - William Brade, English composer (born 1560)
• April 29 - Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet and soldier (born 1552)
• July 16 - Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (born 1562)
• September 17 - Thomas Lake, English statesman (born 1567)
• September 18 - Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal and statesman (born 1552)
• September 20 - Claudio Saracini, Italian composer (born 1586)
• September 25 - Ambrosio Spinola, marqués de los Balbases, Spanish general (born 1569)
• November 15 - Johannes Kepler, German astronomer (born 1571)
• November 19 - Johann Schein, German composer (born 1586)

See also Category:1630 deaths.