1630

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).

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

* 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

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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)

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