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.
• July 8 - The MBC celebrates its first Thanksgiving Day.
• 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 (the colony will not prosper; believed to have dispersed later).
• 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 " 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.

Births

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

See also Category:1630 births.

Deaths

• 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 29 - Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet and soldier (b. 1552)
• July 16 - Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1562)
• 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 25 - Ambrosio Spinola, marqués de los Balbases, Spanish general (b. 1569)
• November 15 - Johannes Kepler, German astronomer (b. 1571)
• November 19 - Johann Schein, German composer (b. 1586)

See also Category:1630 deaths.

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