1631

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1600s  1610s  1620s  – 1630s –  1640s  1650s  1660s
Years:	1628 1629 1630 – 1631 – 1632 1633 1634

1631 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1631 (MDCXXXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1631 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events of 1631

January–June

• February 5 – Roger Williams emigrates to Boston.
• February 16 – Gustav Adolf Secondary School is founded in Tallinn, Estonia by Swedish king Gustav II Adolf.
• May 10 – Thirty Years' War: Imperial troops storm the German city of Magdeburg and massacre 20,000 inhabitants.
• May 18 – In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.
• May 30 – La Gazette, the first French newspaper, was founded.
• June 20 – Algerian pirates sack Baltimore, County Cork in Ireland.

July–December

• September 17 – Thirty Years' War: Battle of Breitenfield (1631) – King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden defeats the Catholic League and the Holy Roman Empire, ensuring religious liberty for the Protestant states of Germany.
• October 10 – Thirty Years' War: A Saxon army takes over Prague.

Undated

• Moses Amyraut's Traite des Religions is published.
• The bell "Emmanuel" in Notre Dame de Paris is recast.
• The Taj Mahal's construction is started (it is finished in 1653).
• Mount Vesuvius erupts in Pompeii.

Births

1631 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1631 MDCXXXI
Ab urbe condita	2384
Armenian calendar	1080 ԹՎ ՌՁ
Bahá'í calendar	-213 – -212
Bengali calendar	1038
Berber calendar	2581
Buddhist calendar	2175
Burmese calendar	993
Byzantine calendar	7139 – 7140
Chinese calendar	庚午年十一月廿九日 (4267/4327-11-29) — to — 辛未年閏十一月初九日 (4268/4328-intercalary 11-9)
Coptic calendar	1347 – 1348
Ethiopian calendar	1623 – 1624
Hebrew calendar	5391 – 5392
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1687 – 1688
- Shaka Samvat	1553 – 1554
- Kali Yuga	4732 – 4733
Holocene calendar	11631
Iranian calendar	1009 – 1010
Islamic calendar	1040 – 1041
Japanese calendar	Kan'ei 8 (寛永8年)
Korean calendar	3964
Thai solar calendar	2174

• January 1 – Katherine Philips, Anglo-Welsh poet (d. 1664)
• 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

• January 1 – Thomas Hobson, English carrier and origin of the phrase "Hobson's choice" (b. 1544)
• March 31 – John Donne, English writer and prelate (b. 1572)
• May 6 – Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician (b. 1570)
• June 17 – Mumtaz Mahal, favorite wife of Shah Jahan (b. April 1593)
• June 21 – John Smith of Jamestown, English soldier and colonist (b. 1580)
• July 19 – Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (b. 1550)
• July 28 – Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish dramatist (b. 1569)
• October 14 – Sofie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (d. 1631), Queen and regent of Denmark (b. 1557)
• December 23 – Michael Drayton, English poet (b. 1563)

See also Category:1631 deaths.