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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

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, 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
  • probable » See also .

    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 » See also .

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