1630

1630 (MDCXXX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1630th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 630th year of the 2nd millennium, the 30th year of the 17th century, and the 1st year of the 1630s decade. As of the start of 1630, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1630 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1630
MDCXXX
Ab urbe condita2383
Armenian calendar1079
ԹՎ ՌՀԹ
Assyrian calendar6380
Balinese saka calendar1551–1552
Bengali calendar1037
Berber calendar2580
English Regnal year5 Cha. 1  6 Cha. 1
Buddhist calendar2174
Burmese calendar992
Byzantine calendar7138–7139
Chinese calendar己巳年 (Earth Snake)
4326 or 4266
     to 
庚午年 (Metal Horse)
4327 or 4267
Coptic calendar1346–1347
Discordian calendar2796
Ethiopian calendar1622–1623
Hebrew calendar5390–5391
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1686–1687
 - Shaka Samvat1551–1552
 - Kali Yuga4730–4731
Holocene calendar11630
Igbo calendar630–631
Iranian calendar1008–1009
Islamic calendar1039–1040
Japanese calendarKan'ei 7
(寛永7年)
Javanese calendar1551–1552
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3963
Minguo calendar282 before ROC
民前282年
Nanakshahi calendar162
Thai solar calendar2172–2173
Tibetan calendar阴土蛇年
(female Earth-Snake)
1756 or 1375 or 603
     to 
阳金马年
(male Iron-Horse)
1757 or 1376 or 604

Events

The Winthrop Fleet sails towards New England.

JanuaryJune

  • February 22 Native American Quadequine introduces popcorn to English colonists.
  • March Fedorovych Uprising: Zaporozhian Cossacks rebel against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and occupy a large part of modern-day Ukraine. After a number of indecisive skirmishes with a Polish army sent to pacify the region, the Treaty of Pereyaslav is signed, ending the uprising.
  • March 3 A fleet sent by the Dutch West India Company captures Recife from the Portuguese, establishing Dutch Brazil.
  • March 9 The 1630 Crete earthquake occurs.
  • April 8 Puritan migration to New England (1620-1640): Winthrop Fleet The ship Arbella and three others set sail from the Solent in England, with 400 passengers under the leadership of John Winthrop, headed for the Massachusetts Bay Colony in America; seven more, with another 300 aboard, follow in the next few weeks.
  • June Scottish-born Presbyterian (and former physician) Alexander Leighton is brought before Archbishop William Laud's Star Chamber court in London for publishing the seditious pamphlet An Appeale to the Parliament, or, Sions Plea Against the Prelacy, an attack on Anglican bishops (printed in the Netherlands, 1628). He is sentenced to be pilloried and whipped, have his ears cropped, one side of his nose slit, and his face branded with "SS" (for "sower of sedition"), to be imprisoned, and be degraded from holy orders.[1]
  • June 6 Swedish warships depart from Stockholm, Sweden for Central Europe.
  • June 12 Massachusetts Bay Colony founded, John Winthrop governor.[2]
  • June 14 Passengers of the Arbella, including Anne Bradstreet, America's first poet of significance, finally set foot in the New World at Salem, Massachusetts.
  • September 7 Governor John Winthrop passed a resolution declaring "that Trimontaine" on Shawmut peninsula shall be called Boston from now on.[2]

JulyDecember

Date unknown

  • Paramaribo (in modern-day Suriname) is first settled by the English.
  • The Deccan Famine of 1630–32 in India begins; it will kill some two million.
  • In the Mughal Empire, Shah Jahan's Pearl Mosque at Lahore Fort is consecrated (completed 1635).
  • The central square of Covent Garden in London is laid out, and a market begins to develop there.
  • Johann Heinrich Alsted's Encyclopaedia septem tomis distincta is published.
  • Settlers leave Pannaway Plantation and begin to settle in Strawbery Banke which in 1653 is renamed Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Births

Jan Vermeer van Utrecht
Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten
Estephan El Douaihy
Olaus Rudbeck

JanuaryMarch

AprilJune

  • April 1 Jacob Boreel, Dutch diplomat and politician (d. 1697)
  • April 7 Ulrik Christian Gyldenløve, commander-in-chief of the Danish army (d. 1658)
  • April 16 Lambert van Haven, Danish architect (d. 1695)
  • April 21 Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten, Dutch painter (d. 1700)
  • April 28 Charles Cotton, English poet and writer (d. 1687)
  • May 3
    • Thomas Rosewell, English minister (d. 1692)
    • Jacob von Sandrart, German engraver (d. 1708)
  • May 4 Hendrik Schoock, Dutch painter (d. 1707)
  • May 6 Johan Hadorph, Swedish director-general of the Central Board of National Antiquities (d. 1693)
  • May 12 Jean-Baptiste de Santeul, French writer (d. 1697)
  • May 17 John Howe, English Puritan theologian (d. 1705)
  • May 29 King Charles II of England, Scotland, and Ireland (d. 1685)[7]
  • June 1 Carlo Barberini, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1704)
  • June 4 Jacques Rousseau, French painter (d. 1693)
  • June 7 John Talbot of Lacock, English politician and general (d. 1714)
  • June 8 Wolf Caspar von Klengel, German architect in Saxony (d. 1691)
  • June 10 Willem van Bemmel, Dutch Golden Age painter (d. 1708)
  • June 24 Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle, English politician (d. 1691)

JulySeptember

  • July 22 Madame de Brinvilliers, French murderer (d. 1676)
  • August 1 Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (d. 1673)
  • August 2 Estephan El Douaihy, Lebanese Maronite Patriarch, historian (d. 1704)
  • August 20 or August 27 Maria van Oosterwijck, Dutch Golden Age painter (d. 1693)
  • August 22 Guy Aldonce de Durfort de Lorges, French noble, soldier (d. 1702)
  • August 27 Thomas Risley, English Presbyterian minister (d. 1716)
  • September 6 Thomas Hele, English politician (d. 1665)
  • September 17 Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma from 1646 until his death (d. 1694)
  • September 25 Pierre Cally, French philosopher and theologian (d. 1709)
  • September 27 Michael Willmann, German painter (d. 1706)

OctoberDecember

Probable

  • Stefano Erardi, Maltese painter (d. 1716)[9]
  • John Leslie, 1st Duke of Rothes, Scottish noble (d. 1681)
  • Lucy Walter, Welsh mistress to King Charles II of England

Deaths

Ambrogio Spinola
  • 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 2 George Talbot, 9th Earl of Shrewsbury, English earl (b. 1566)
  • April 10 William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, English noble, courtier and patron of the arts (b. 1580)
  • April 17 Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, German prince of the House of Ascania (b. 1568)
  • April 19 Anne Howard, Countess of Arundel, English countess and poet (b. 1557)
  • April 22 Agostino Ciampelli, Italian painter (b. 1565)
  • April 29 Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet and soldier (b. 1552)[10]
  • May 17 Dorothea Flock, German alleged witch (b. 1608)
  • May 30 Emanuel Scrope, 1st Earl of Sunderland, English noble (b. 1584)
  • June 25 Jacob Ulfeldt, Danish politician (b. 1567)
  • July 26 Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1562)[11]
  • August 11 Thomas Walsingham, English spymaster (b. 1561)
  • August 22 Giulio Mancini, Italian papal physician (b. 1559)
  • September 5 Nicolaus Mulerius, Dutch astronomer and medical academic (b. 1564)
  • 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 22 Yuan Chonghuan, Chinese politician, military general and writer (b. 1584)
  • September 24 Charles Günther, Count of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (b. 1576)
  • September 25 Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquis of the Balbases, Italian general (b. 1569)
  • October 10 John Heminges, English actor (b. 1566)
  • October 22 Jerónima de la Asunción, Spanish founder of the Monastery of Santa Clara (b. 1555)
  • November 15 Johannes Kepler, German astronomer (b. 1571)[12]
  • November 9 Tōdō Takatora, Japanese daimyo (b. 1556)
  • November 18 Esaias van de Velde, Dutch painter (b. 1587)
  • November 19
    • Antonio Brunelli, Italian composer and theorist (b. 1577)
    • Johann Hermann Schein, German composer (b. 1586)
  • November 29 Teodósio II, Duke of Braganza (b. 1568)
  • December 11 Franciscus Dousa, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1577)
  • December 19 Orazio Riminaldi, Italian painter (b. 1593)
  • approx. date
    • Adam Haslmayr, Austrian commentator on the Rosicrucian Manifestos (b. c. 1560)
    • Fede Galizia, Italian painter (b. c. 1578)
  • unknown date Mariangiola Criscuolo, Italian painter (b. c. 1548)

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  5. Robert Chambers, Domestic Annals of Scotland, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1859), pp. 43-50.
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  7. "Charles II | Biography, Accomplishments, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
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