Events

• February 5 - Roger Williams emigrates to Boston.
• February 16 - Gustav Adolf Secondary School was founded in Tallinn, Estonia by Swedish king Gustav II Adolf.
• May 10 - During the Thirty Years' War imperial troops storm the German city of Magdeburg and commit a massacre. About 20,000 inhabitants are killed.
• May 18 - In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.
• June 20 - Algerian pirates sack Baltimore, County Cork in Ireland.
• October 10 - A Saxon army take over Prague.
• Moses Amyraut's Traite des Religions is published.
• The bell "Emmanuel" in Notre Dame de Paris is recast.

Births

• February 20 - Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, English statesman (d. 1712)
• March 16 - René Le Bossu, French critic (d. 1680)
• May 2 - Sir John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl (d.1703)
• July 15 - Jens Juel, Danish diplomat (d. 1700)
• August 19 - John Dryden, English writer (d. 1700)
• September 3 - William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (d. 1701)
• November 4 - Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (d. 1660)
• December 14 - Lady Anne Finch Conway, English philosopher (d. 1679)

See also Category:1631 births.

Deaths

• March 31 - John Donne, English writer and prelate (b. 1572)
• May 6 - Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician
• June 17 - Mumtaz Mahal, favorite wife of Shah Jahan (b. April 1593)
• July 28 - Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish dramatist (b. 1569)
• December 23 - Michael Drayton, English poet (b. 1563)
• John Smith of Jamestown, English soldier and colonist (b. 1580)

See also Category:1631 deaths.

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