1630s

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The 1630s was a decade that began on January 1, 1630, and ended on December 31, 1640.

Events

1630

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Date unknown

1631

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Date unknown

  • Publication of
    • Moses Amyraut's Traite des Religions.
    • Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma's [es] Chocolate: or, An Indian Drinke.[13]

1632

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Date unknown

1633

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Date unknown

1634

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

  • October 11 – The Burchardi flood (also known as the second Grote Mandrenke) strikes the North Sea coast of Germany and Denmark, causing at least 8,000 deaths and perhaps as many as 12,000.
  • November 11 – The Irish House of Commons passes an Act for the Punishment of the Vice of Buggery.
  • December 8 – Francesco Niccolini obtains an audience with Pope Urban VIII and pleads him to reconsider the Church's punishment of astronomer Galileo Galilei. The Pope replies that although he esteems Galileo highly, nothing will change.[37]
  • December 16 – Gregorio Panzani, an emissary of Pope Urban VIII, is welcomed in England by King Charles I,[38] marking the first time since England's break with the Roman Catholic Church that a monarch has received an agent of the Vatican.

Date unknown

1635

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Date unknown

  • Guadeloupe and Martinique are colonized by France.
  • Dominica is claimed by France.
  • The Ottomans are expelled from Yemen.
  • In Edo period Japan, the Sakoku Edict of 1635 enforces isolationism. Japanese are forbidden to travel abroad and unauthorised Europeans forbidden to enter under penalty of death. Christianity (Catholicism) is absolutely prohibited. Foreign merchants – Chinese and those of the Dutch East India Company – are restricted to enclaves in Nagasaki and access by the Portuguese is completely forbidden: an imperial memorandum decrees, "Hereafter entry by the Portuguese galeota is forbidden. If they insist on coming, the ships must be destroyed and anyone aboard those ships must be beheaded."
  • In the Mughal Empire, Shah Jahan's Pearl Mosque at Lahore Fort is completed.
  • Nagyszombat University (predecessor of Budapest University) is established.
  • Willem and Joan Blaeu publish the first edition of their Atlas Novus, in Amsterdam.

1636

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Date unknown

1637

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Date unknown

1638

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Date unknown

1639

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Date unknown

Births

1630

Shivaji I
Jan Vermeer van Utrecht
Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten
Charles II of England
Estephan El Douaihy
Olaus Rudbeck

1631

John Dryden
Stanislaus Papczyński
Christoffel Pierson
Johann Heinrich Roos

1632

Adam Frans van der Meulen
Christopher Wren
Erik Benzelius the Elder
Abbas II of Persia
Baruch Spinoza

1633

Alessandro Marchetti
Emperor Go-Kōmyō
Paolo Boccone
Gesina ter Borch

1634

George Bull
Countess Albertine Agnes of Nassau
Johannes Camphuys
Luca Giordano

1635

Sulaiman Shikoh
Frans van Mieris the Elder
Francis Willughby

Date unknown

Date unknown

1636

Laura Mancini
Gregório de Matos
Justine Siegemund

1637

Jan Swammerdam
Johan Vibe
Jacques Marquette
Francis Turner

1638

Elisabetta Sirani
Shunzhi Emperor
Frederik Ruysch
Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve
Louis XIV

1639

Éléonore Desmier d'Olbreuse
Martin Lister
Giovanni Battista Gaulli
Increase Mather

Deaths

1630

Ambrogio Spinola
Johannes Kepler

1631

Jacob Matham
John Smith

1632

Tokugawa Hidetada
King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden

1633

George Herbert
Cornelis Drebbel
Xu Guangqi

1634

Albrecht von Wallenstein
Hendrick Avercamp

1635

Lope de Vega
Samuel de Champlain

1636

Date Masamune
Johannes Saeckma

1637

Ben Jonson

1638

Cornelis van Haarlem
Barbara Longhi

1639

Mustafa I
Johannes Meursius

References

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