- 1630s
Events and trends
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Great Migration (Puritan)
*Thirty Years' War in full swing inEurope
* 1632 - Just a couple of months before his death in battle, Swedish king Gustav II Adolf The Great ratifies the establishment ofUniversity of Tartu , the second university in the Swedish Empire
*September 8 ,1636 - A vote of the Great and General Court of theMassachusetts Bay Colony establishes Harvard College as the first college founded in theAmericas .
*1639 ,Fort St George , the first settlement ofBritish India , is founded atMadras . [Roberts, J: "History of the World.". Penguin, 1994.]World leaders
*King
Christian IV of Denmark and Norway (1588 -1648 ).
*KingCharles I of England ,Scotland andIreland (1625 -1649 ).
*Hong Taiji , Emperor of the Qing.
*KingLouis XIII of France (1610 -1643 ).
*Cardinal Richelieu , chief minister ofFrance (1624 -1642 ).
*Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (1620 - 1637).
*Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (1637 -1657 ).
*Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange ,Stadtholder ofHolland ,Zeeland , Utrecht,Overijssel andGelderland (1625 -1647 ).
*Pope Urban VIII (1623 -1644 ).
*KingPhilip IV of Spain (1621 -1665 ).
*KingGustavus Adolphus of Sweden (1611 - 1632)
*QueenChristina of Sweden (1632 -1654 ).
*PadshahShah Jahan (1628 -1658 ) of theMughal Empire References
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