1630

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1600s  1610s  1620s  – 1630s –  1640s  1650s  1660s
Years:	1627 1628 1629 – 1630 – 1631 1632 1633

1630 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1630 (MDCXXX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1630 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events of 1630

January–June

• February 22 – Native American Quadequine introduces popcorn to English colonists.
• March 22 – Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
• March 29 – Great Migration: The ship Arbella and three other ships leave Southampton, England with 400 passengers headed for the Massachusetts Bay Colony in America.
• June 6 – Swedish warships depart from Stockholm to Germany.
• June 26 – July 6 – Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus land in Pomerania, Germany to aid the Protestants.

July–December

• July 6 – The Success, last ship of the Winthrop Fleet, lands safely at Salem harbor, Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• July 30 – John Winthrop helps in founding a church in Massachusetts which will later become known as First Church in Boston.
• September 17 – The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.
• September 24 – The first ship of de Sauce's emigrants arrive at Southampton Hundred on the James River in Virginia.
• November 10–November 11 – Day of Dupes: Marie de' Medici unsuccessfully attempts to oust Richelieu.

Undated

• 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 Zion's Plea Against Prelacy: An Appeal to Parliament, an attack on Anglican bishops, in London. He is sentenced by Archbishop William Laud's High Commission Court to public whipping, branding, and having his ears cut off.
• First year of Deccan famine in India—which will kill some 2,000,000 in 3 years.
• Thirty Years' War: Swedish intervention starts.

Births

1630 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1630 MDCXXX
Ab urbe condita	2383
Armenian calendar	1079 ԹՎ ՌՀԹ
Bahá'í calendar	-214 – -213
Bengali calendar	1037
Berber calendar	2580
Buddhist calendar	2174
Burmese calendar	992
Byzantine calendar	7138 – 7139
Chinese calendar	己巳年十一月十八日 (4266/4326-11-18) — to — 庚午年十一月廿八日 (4267/4327-11-28)
Coptic calendar	1346 – 1347
Ethiopian calendar	1622 – 1623
Hebrew calendar	5390 – 5391
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1686 – 1687
- Shaka Samvat	1552 – 1553
- Kali Yuga	4731 – 4732
Holocene calendar	11630
Iranian calendar	1008 – 1009
Islamic calendar	1039 – 1040
Japanese calendar	Kan'ei 7 (寛永7年)
Korean calendar	3963
Thai solar calendar	2173

• January 11 – John Rogers, American President of Harvard (d. 1684)
• January 25 – Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1678)
• 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 – Étienne Baluze, French scholar (d. 1718)
• November 27 – Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria, regent of Tyrol and Further Austria (d. 1665)
• date unknown
  • Noël Alexandre, theologian (d. 1724)
  • Jacques de Coras, poet (d. 1677)
  • Jan Wynants, Dutch landscape artist (d. 1684)
• probable
  • John Leslie, 1st Duke of Rothes (d. 1681)
  • Shivaji Maharaj – Founder of Maratha empire

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 – Ambrogio Spinola, marqués de los Balbases, Italian general (b. 1569)
• November 15 – Johannes Kepler, German astronomer (b. 1571)
• November 19 – Johann Schein, German composer (b. 1586)
• date unknown
  • Gabriel Harvey, writer (b. c. 1545)
  • Giulio Mancini, papal physician (b. 1558)

See also Category:1630 deaths.