1629

Centuries:	16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades:	1590s 1600s 1610s - 1620s - 1630s 1640s 1650s
Years:	1626 1627 1628 - 1629 - 1630 1631 1632

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[edit] Events of 1629

March 4 - Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal Charter.
March 6 - Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor issues the Edict of Restitution, under which all Catholic properties lost to Protestantism since 1552 are to be restored and only Catholics and Lutherans (not Calvinists, Hussites or other sects) are to be allowed to practice their faith.
March 10 - Charles I of England dissolves Parliament, starting the Eleven Years' Tyranny in which there is no parliament.
June 4: The VOC ship Batavia runs aground west of Australia.

November 8 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan abdicates the throne in favour of his daughter, who becomes Empress Meishō.

Fort Santo Domingo is built in Formosa by the Spanish settlers.
Chongzhen, the Chinese emperor of the Ming Dynasty, reiterates the state prohibition against female infanticide, while the empire and the Chinese economy begins to crumble. In the same year, a third of the courier stations are closed down due to lack of government funds to sustain them.
The rule of Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba ends.
Actresses are banned in Japan.
Two exiled Dutch murderers from the Batavia become the first Europeans to settle in Australia, on the west coast. Their subsequent fate is unknown.^[1]

January 27 - Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (b. 1560)
March - John Guy, first Governor of Newfoundland
March 16 - Emilia of Nassau, daughter of William the Silent (b. 1559)
March 23 - Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland (b. c. 1580)
March 29 - Jacob de Gheyn II, painter and engraver (b. c. 1585)
June 18 - Piet Pieterszoon Hein, Dutch naval officer (b. 1577)
July 13 - Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Swedish physician and theologian (b. 1585)
September 21 - Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1587)
October 2 - Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1575)
October 2 - Antonio Cifra, Italian composer (b. 1584)
October 3 - Giorgi Saakadze, Georgian military commander (b. 1570)
November - Hendrick ter Brugghen, Dutch painter (b. c. 1558)
date unknown - Antonio Vassilacchi ("Il Aliense"), painter
Abbas I of Persia
probable - Sigismondo d'India, composer

^ Geoffrey Blainey, The Tyranny of Distance, Melbourne: Sun Books, 1966, ISBN 0-7251-0019-2, p.5