1629

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1590s  1600s  1610s  – 1620s –  1630s  1640s  1650s
Years:	1626 1627 1628 – 1629 – 1630 1631 1632

1629 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1629 (MDCXXIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1629 1.1 July–December 1.2 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 References

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, ordering all Catholic properties lost to Protestantism since 1552 are to be restored. The Edict further provides that Catholics and Lutherans (but not Calvinists, Hussites or members of 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.

July–December

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

Undated

• Plague returns to Venice
• 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]

Births

1629 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1629 MDCXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2382
Armenian calendar	1078 ԹՎ ՌՀԸ
Bahá'í calendar	-215 – -214
Bengali calendar	1036
Berber calendar	2579
Buddhist calendar	2173
Burmese calendar	991
Byzantine calendar	7137 – 7138
Chinese calendar	戊辰年十二月初八日 (4265/4325-12-8) — to — 己巳年十一月十七日 (4266/4326-11-17)
Coptic calendar	1345 – 1346
Ethiopian calendar	1621 – 1622
Hebrew calendar	5389 – 5390
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1685 – 1686
- Shaka Samvat	1551 – 1552
- Kali Yuga	4730 – 4731
Holocene calendar	11629
Iranian calendar	1007 – 1008
Islamic calendar	1038 – 1039
Japanese calendar	Kan'ei 6 (寛永6年)
Korean calendar	3962
Thai solar calendar	2172

• March 9 – Tsar Alexis I of Russia (d. 1676)
• April 14 – Christiaan Huygens, Dutch scientist (d. 1695)
• May 8 – Niels Juel, Danish admiral (d. 1697)
• August 4 – Sir George Acheson, 3rd Baronet, Irish nobleman (d. 1685)
• August 17 – King John III Sobieski of Poland (d. 1696)
• September – Lady Mary Dering, composer (d. 1704)
• September 4 – Lorenzo Pasinelli, Italian painter (d. 1700)
• September 9 – Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (d. 1691)
• September 21 – Philip Howard, English Roman Catholic Cardinal (d. 1694)
• September 30 – Oliver Plunkett, Irish saint (d. 1681)
• December 12 – Simeon of Polotsk, Belarusian churchman and poet (d. 1680)
• date unknown
  • Katherine Austen, diarist and poet (d. c. 1683)
  • Don John of Austria the Younger, soldier (d. 1679)
  • Roderick O'Flaherty, Irish chieftain and historian (d. 1718)

Deaths

• 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

References