Calendar year
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April 8 : TheWinthrop Fleet , with 400 people on three ships, sails towardsNew England .July 6 :Gustav Adolf of Sweden makes landfall inPomerania .1630 (MDCXXX ) was acommon year starting on Tuesday of theGregorian calendar and acommon year starting on Friday of theJulian calendar , the 1630th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini (AD) designations, the 630th year of the2nd millennium , the 30th year of the17th century , and the 1st year of the1630s 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 inTurin is found to have the first case of bubonic plague there as theplague of 1630 begins spreading through Italy.January 5 – A team of Portuguese military advisers to China's Ming dynasty government arrive atZhuozhou . Led byGonçalo Teixeira Corrêa , and accompanied by interpreterJoão Rodrigues , the group begins training the troops of GovernorSun Yuanhua in using modern cannons.January 11 –Otto III and his brotherWilliam Augustus , both, Dukes of Brunswick-Harburg, sell their rights to inherit rule ofBrunswick-Lüneburg toPrince Christian in return for their debts of more than 150,000 thaler being paid.January 13 – In China, GeneralYuan Chonghuan is invited to an audience with theChongzhen 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 newDoge of theRepublic of Venice and spends most of his time fighting abubonic plague epidemic, but dies in office on April 2, 1631.February 22 –Native American Quadequine introducespopcorn to English colonists.March 3 – A fleet sent by theDutch West India Company capturesRecife from the Portuguese, establishingDutch Brazil .March 9 – The1630 Crete earthquake occurs.March –Fedorovych Uprising :Zaporozhian Cossacks rebel against thePolish–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, theTreaty of Pereyaslav is signed, ending the uprising.April 8 –Puritan migration to New England (1620-1640) :Winthrop Fleet – The shipArbella and three others set sail from theSolent in England, with 400 passengers under the leadership ofJohn Winthrop , headed for theMassachusetts 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 VizierGazi Hüsrev Pasha routs the Persians in a battle at Mahidasht near Kermanshah.May 17 The first case of plague is reported inMilan . By the end of 1631, the city of 250,000 suffers 186,000 deaths, losing almost three-quarters of its population to plague. Italian astronomersNiccolò Zucchi andDaniello Bartoli become the first scientists to observe the belts on the planetJupiter . May 20 – TheSwedish National Heritage Board (Riksantikvarieämbetet ) is created, withJohannes Bureus as its first director. The Board is still in existence almost 400 years later.May 25 –Fedorovych uprising : TheZaporozhian Cossacks , led byTaras Triasylo , defeat Polish and Lithuanian troops led by GeneralStanisław Koniecpolski nearPereiaslav . The battle is later the subject of the Ukrainian language poemTarasova nich .May 29 – TheBattle of Villabuona is fought in Italy at Lombardy, with more than 4,000 French and Venetian troops killed in an attack byMatthias Gallas of the Holy Roman Empire's army.June 4 – Scottish-bornPresbyterian (and former physician)Alexander Leighton is brought beforeArchbishop William Laud 'sStar Chamber court in London for publishing theseditious pamphletAn Appeale to the Parliament, or, Sions Plea Against the Prelacy , an attack onAnglican 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 fromStockholm ,Sweden forCentral Europe .June 12 –Massachusetts Bay Colony is founded, withJohn Winthrop as governor.[ 3] June 14 – Passengers of theArbella , includingAnne Bradstreet , America's first poet of significance, finally set foot in theNew World atSalem, 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 theHoly Roman Empire , led by CountJohann von Aldringen .July 24 – TheSibbald baronets British nobility title is created.[ 4] July 30 –John Winthrop helps in founding a church inMassachusetts , which will later become known as First Church inBoston .July – TheItalian plague of 1629–31 reachesVenice .August 13 –Thirty Years' War : As a result of heavy pressure from thePrince-electors ,Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor , dismisses generalAlbrecht von Wallenstein from command of the Imperial Army.August 25 –Sinhalese–Portuguese War : In theBattle of Randeniwela on the island ofSri Lanka ,King Senarat ofKandy leads more than 35,000 troops in killing most of an attack force led by Portuguese Ceylon governorConstantino de Sá de Noronha .September 4 –Thirty Years' War : theTreaty of Stettin is signed by Sweden and theDuchy of Pomerania , forming a close alliance between them, as well as giving Sweden full military control over Pomerania.September 7 – GovernorJohn Winthrop passes a resolution declaring"that Trimontaine" on Shawmut peninsulashall be calledBoston from now on.[ 3] September 17 (September 7Old Style ) – The settlement ofBoston ,Massachusetts Bay Colony is founded.[ 5] September 24 – The first ship of de Sauce's emigrants arrive at Southampton Hundred, on theJames River inVirginia .Shivaji I 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 , Japanesedaimyō (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 Kingdom (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 – KingCharles 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 orAugust 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 , Japanesedaimyō who ruled theTokushima 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 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