1629

1629 (MDCXXIX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1629th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 629th year of the 2nd millennium, the 29th year of the 17th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1620s decade. As of the start of 1629, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1629 by topic
Arts and science
  • Architecture
  • Art
  • Literature
  • Music
  • Science
Leaders
  • State leaders
  • Colonial governors
  • Religious leaders
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Works category
  • Works
1629 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1629
MDCXXIX
Ab urbe condita2382
Armenian calendar1078
ԹՎ ՌՀԸ
Assyrian calendar6379
Balinese saka calendar1550–1551
Bengali calendar1036
Berber calendar2579
English Regnal year4 Cha. 1 – 5 Cha. 1
Buddhist calendar2173
Burmese calendar991
Byzantine calendar7137–7138
Chinese calendar戊辰年 (Earth Dragon)
4325 or 4265
    — to —
己巳年 (Earth Snake)
4326 or 4266
Coptic calendar1345–1346
Discordian calendar2795
Ethiopian calendar1621–1622
Hebrew calendar5389–5390
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1685–1686
 - Shaka Samvat1550–1551
 - Kali Yuga4729–4730
Holocene calendar11629
Igbo calendar629–630
Iranian calendar1007–1008
Islamic calendar1038–1039
Japanese calendarKan'ei 6
(寛永６年)
Javanese calendar1550–1551
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3962
Minguo calendar283 before ROC
民前283年
Nanakshahi calendar161
Thai solar calendar2171–2172
Tibetan calendar阳土龙年
(male Earth-Dragon)
1755 or 1374 or 602
    — to —
阴土蛇年
(female Earth-Snake)
1756 or 1375 or 603
May 14–May 28: The siege of Privas.

Events
Frederick Henry and his cousin Ernst Casimir at the Siege of 's-Hertogenbosch.

January–June
  • February 11–June 19 – Puritan migration to New England (1620–1640): Around 350 English Puritans on six ships, led by Francis Higginson in the Lyon's Whelp, sail from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, to Salem, to settle in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in America.[1]
  • March 4 – Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal Charter, and the county is the first to be created in the United States. The area covers almost all of the present-day state.
  • March 6 – Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor issues the Edict of Restitution, ordering all Catholic properties lost to Protestantism since 1552 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
  • April 30 – Eighty Years' War: Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange lays siege to 's-Hertogenbosch, one of Spain's most important fortresses along the Spanish–Dutch border.
  • May 14–28 – Huguenot rebellions: After a 15-day siege, Louis XIII of France captures Privas.
  • May 22 – Thirty Years' War: Christian IV of Denmark and Albrecht von Wallenstein sign the Treaty of Lübeck, ending Denmark's involvement in the Thirty Years' War.
  • May 29 – Thirty Years' War: Prince Frederick of Denmark, the Lutheran administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Verden, is expelled by the Catholic League as a result of the Edict of Restitution. He is replaced by the staunch catholic Francis of Wartenberg.
  • June 4 – The Dutch East India Company ship Batavia is wrecked on a reef near Beacon Island, off Western Australia, on her maiden voyage to the Indies. Following mutiny among the survivors, two exiled murderers become the first Europeans to settle in Australia. Their subsequent fate is unknown.[2]
  • June 7 – The Dutch States-General ratifies the Dutch West India Company's Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions, making it more attractive to invest in the colony of New Netherland in North America.
  • June 17 – Huguenot rebellions: Alès surrenders after an intense siege. As a result, the leader of the Huguenot Rebellions, the Duke of Rohan, surrenders.
  • June 17 – Anglo-Spanish War (1625–1630): A Spanish expedition, led by Fadrique de Toledo, wipes out the English colony on Nevis.
  • June 28 – Huguenot rebellions: Louis XIII of France signs in his camp at Lédignan the Peace of Alès, ending the Huguenot rebellions. The Huguenots are allowed religious freedom, but lose their political, territorial and military rights.

July–December
  • August 19 – Eighty Years' War: The Spanish garrison of Wesel is surprised by a small Dutch army, and the city is taken by the Dutch Republic. As Wesel functioned as the principal supply base of Hendrik van den Bergh's army, the loss of supply forces him to retreat to the Spanish Netherlands, leaving him unable to intervene in the ongoing siege of 's-Hertogenbosch.
  • August 21 – Huguenot rebellions: Montauban, one of the last Huguenot strongholds, surrenders without a fight to Richelieu's troops.
  • August 29 – As a result of the Cambridge Agreement, the Massachusetts Bay Colony becomes a self-governing entity.
  • September 7 – Anglo-Spanish War (1625–1630): A Spanish expedition, led by Fadrique de Toledo, wipes out the English colony on St. Kitts.
  • September 14 – Eighty Years' War: After a five-month-long siege, 's-Hertogenbosch surrenders to Frederick Henry. As a result of the capture of this key fortress, Spain's situation along the Spanish–Dutch border worsens greatly.
  • September 25 – Polish–Swedish War (1626–1629): Sweden and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth sign the Truce of Altmark, ending the war in highly favourable terms for Sweden.
  • October – 1629–1631 Italian plague: the plague arrives in Milan.
  • November 8 – Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan abdicates the throne in favour of his daughter, who becomes Empress Meishō.
  • November 30 – The St Etienne baronets British nobility title is created.[3]

Undated
  • Fort San 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.
  • William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling briefly establishes a Scottish colony at Port Royal, Nova Scotia.

Births
Sebastian Valfrè
Christiaan Huygens
Raj Singh I
Melchor Liñán y Cisneros
Jaswant Singh of Marwar

January–March
  • January 2 – Christian Scriver, German hymnwriter (d. 1693)
  • January 8 – Sir William Hickman, 2nd Baronet, Member of the House of Commons of England (d. 1682)
  • January 13 – Lelio Colista, Italian composer and lutenist (d. 1680)
  • January 16 – Theodorick Bland of Westover, American politician (d. 1671)
  • January 23 – Adolph, Prince of Nassau-Schaumburg and Count of Nassau-Schaumburg (1653–1676) (d. 1676)
  • February 5 – Henry Muddiman, English journalist and publisher (d. 1692)
  • February 16 – Gert Miltzow, Norwegian clergyman and historical writer (d. 1688)
  • February 25 – Francis Erdmann, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, Germany (d. 1666)
  • February 26
    • Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll, Scottish peer (d. 1685)
    • Iver Leganger, Norwegian priest, non-fiction writer (d. 1702)
  • March 1 – Abraham Teniers, Flemish painter (d. 1670)
  • March 5 – Philip Howard, English politician (d. 1711)
  • March 8 – Johannes Caioni, Transylvanian Franciscan friar (d. 1687)
  • March 9 – Sebastian Valfrè, Italian Oratorian priest (d. 1710)
  • March 10 – Metcalfe Robinson, English politician (d. 1689)
  • March 29 – Tsar Alexis of Russia (d. 1676)

April–June

July–September

October–December
  • October 3
    • Charles II, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat, son of Charles of Gonzaga-Nevers of Rethel (d. 1665)
    • Armand Jean de Vignerot du Plessis, French duke (d. 1715)
  • October 7 – George Ernest, Count of Erbach-Wildenstein, Count of Erbach and Wildenstein (1647–1669) (d. 1669)
  • October 10 – Richard Towneley, English mathematician and astronomer from Towneley near Burnley (d. 1707)
  • October 11 – Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti, Frondeur (d. 1666)
  • October 17 – Balthasar Charles, Prince of Asturias (d. 1646)
  • October 18 – Lodewijk Meyer, Dutch physician and scholar (d. 1681)
  • October 21 – Adolph John I, Count Palatine of Kleeburg, Swedish prince (d. 1689)
  • October 28 – Maria van Riebeeck, South African settler (d. 1664)
  • October 29 – Agnes Block, Dutch horticulturalist (d. 1704)
  • November 1 – Oliver Plunkett, Irish saint (d. 1681)[5]
  • November 11 – Lodewijck van Ludick, painter from the Northern Netherlands (d. 1724)
  • November 20 – Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1698)
  • December 2 – Wilhelm Egon von Fürstenberg, German Catholic cardinal (d. 1704)
  • December 7 – Ezekiel, Freiherr von Spanheim, Swiss diplomat (d. 1710)
  • December 11 – Sir Baynham Throckmorton, 3rd Baronet, English Member of Parliament (d. 1681)
  • December 12 – Symeon of Polotsk, Belarusian churchman and poet (d. 1680)
  • December 16 – Ahasverus Fritsch, German jurist, poet and hymn writer (d. 1701)
  • December 19 – Melchor Liñán y Cisneros, Spanish Catholic archbishop (d. 1708)
  • December 20 – Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter (d. 1684)
  • December 23 – Paul Rycaut, British diplomat (d. 1700)
  • December 26 – Jaswant Singh of Marwar, ruler of Marwar in the present-day Indian state of Rajasthan (d. 1678)

Date unknown
  • Katherine Austen, English diarist and poet (d. c. 1683)
  • Don John of Austria the Younger, soldier (d. 1679)
  • Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh (Roderick O'Flaherty), Irish chieftain and historian (d. 1718)

Deaths
Piet Hein
Pietro Bernini
Jan Pieterszoon Coen
  • January 7 – Henry Frederick, Hereditary Prince of the Palatinate (b. 1614)
  • January 13 – Sri Chand, founder of the ascetic sect of Udasi (b. 1494)
  • January 19 – Abbas the Great, 5th Safavid Shāh of Persia (b. 1571)
  • January 23 – Andreas Schott, Flemish philologist, academic, linguist and Jesuit priest (b. 1552)
  • January 27 – Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (b. 1560)[6]
  • March 16 – Countess Emilia of Nassau, Dutch noble, daughter of William the Silent (b. 1559)
  • March 23 – Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland, English politician (b. c. 1580)
  • March 25 – John Guy, English merchant venturer and first Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1568)
  • March 26 – Agnes of Brandenburg, Duchess of Pomerania, later Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg (b. 1584)
  • March 27 – George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes, English noble, general and administrator (b. 1555)
  • March 29 – Jacob de Gheyn II, Dutch painter and engraver (b. c. 1585)
  • April 8 – Willem Teellinck, Dutch pastor (b. 1579)
  • April 17 – Catherine de' Medici, Governor of Siena, Italian princess (b. 1593)
  • May 5 – Szymon Szymonowic, Polish writer (b. 1558)
  • May 19 – Petrus Ryff, Swiss scientist (b. 1552)
  • May 30 – Thomas Schreiber, German innkeeper and alleged witch (b. c. 1598)
  • June 18 – Piet Pieterszoon Hein, Dutch naval officer (b. 1577)
  • July 6 – Georg Friedrich von Greiffenklau, Archbishop of Mainz (b. 1573)
  • July 13 – Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Swedish physician and theologian (b. 1585)
  • August 18 – Vendela Skytte, Swedish noble (b. 1608)
  • August 29 – Pietro Bernini, Italian sculptor (b. 1562)
  • September 11 – Herman Hugo, Dutch Jesuit priest, writer, military chaplain (b. 1588)
  • September 13 – Johannes Buxtorf, German Calvinist theologian (b. 1564)
  • September 21 – Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1587)
  • September 22 – Robert Radclyffe, 5th Earl of Sussex, English noble (b. 1573)
  • October 2
    • Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1575)
    • Antonio Cifra, Italian composer (b. 1584)
  • October 3 – Giorgi Saakadze, Georgian military commander (b. 1570)
  • October 5 – Heribert Rosweyde, Dutch Jesuit hagiographer (b. 1569)
  • October 13 – Petrus Bertius, Flemish theologian and scientist (b. 1565)
  • November – Hendrick ter Brugghen, Dutch painter (b. c. 1558)
  • November 9 – Sixtinus Amama, Dutch Reformed theologian and orientalist (b. 1593)
  • December 13 – Mikołaj Oleśnicki the younger, Polish noble (b. 1558)
  • December 23 – Giovanni I Cornaro, Doge of Venice (b. 1551)[7]
  • date unknown – Antonio Vassilacchi ("Il Aliense"), Greek Venetian painter (b. 1556)
  • probable – Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer (b. c. 1582)

References
  1. Higginson, Thomas (1891). Life of Francis Higginson, First Minister in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Makers of America. New York: Dodd, Mead, & Co. p. 69. Retrieved December 15, 2008.
  2. Blainey, Geoffrey (1966). The Tyranny of Distance. Melbourne: Sun Books. p. 5. ISBN 0-7251-0019-2.
  3. "Leigh Rayment's list of baronets". Archived from the original on October 21, 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  4. Klaas Van Berkel; Albert Van Helden; L. C. Palm (1999). The History of Science in the Netherlands: Survey, Themes and Reference. BRILL. p. 479. ISBN 90-04-10006-7.
  5. Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research. Longmans, Green. 1931. p. 189.
  6. "Hieronymus Praetorius" in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980. ISBN 1-56159-174-2
  7. Claudio Monteverdi (October 31, 1980). The Letters of Claudio Monteverdi. Cambridge University Press. p. 362. ISBN 978-0-521-23591-4.
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