Explore 187 historical events from 1630–1639.
Louis XIV was King of France from 14 May 1643 until his death in 1715. He is a symbol of the Age of Absolutism in Europe for styling himself as "The Sun King" and "Louis the Great"…
Louis XIV, king of France (died 1715)
Maria Theresa of Spain was Queen of France from 1660 to 1683 as the wife of King Louis XIV. She was born an Infanta of Spain and Portugal as the daughter of King Philip IV and Elis…
Maria Theresa of Spain (died 1683)
Isaac Milles or Mills was an English cleric, often described as the model parish priest of that day.
Isaac Milles, English minister (died 1720)
Cornelius Jansen was the Dutch Catholic bishop of Ypres in Flanders and the father of a theological movement known as Jansenism.
Cornelius Jansen, Dutch-French bishop and theologian (born 1585)
Juan Pérez de Montalbán was a Spanish Catholic priest, dramatist, poet and novelist.
Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Spanish author, poet, and playwright (born 1602)
Sibylla Schwarz, also known as Sibylle Schwartz was a German poet of the Baroque era.
Sibylla Schwarz, German poet (born 1621)
Johannes Althusius was a German–Dutch jurist and Calvinist political philosopher.
Johannes Althusius, German jurist and philosopher (born 1557)
John Harvard (1607–1638) was an English Puritan minister in colonial New England whose deathbed bequest to the "schoale or colledge" founded two years earlier by the Massachusetts…
John Harvard, English-American minister and philanthropist (born 1607)
The Pequot War was a conflict that took place in 1636 and ended in 1638 in New England, between the Pequot nation and an alliance of the colonists from the Massachusetts Bay, Plymo…
Pequot War: A combined English and Mohegan force under John Mason attacks a village in Connecticut, massacring approxima
Jacques Marquette, sometimes known as Père Marquette or James Marquette, was a French Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement, Sault Sainte Marie, and la…
Jacques Marquette, French missionary and explorer (died 1675)
Emilie Juliane was a German countess and hymn writer.
Countess Emilie Juliane of Barby-Mühlingen (died 1706)
George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen, was a Lord Chancellor of Scotland.
George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (died 1720)
Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore was an English colonial administrator. He inherited the province of Maryland in 1675 upon the death of his father, Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Bal…
Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, English politician, 2nd Proprietor of Maryland (died 1715)
Sébastien Leclerc or Le Clerc was an artist from the French province of the Three Bishoprics. He specialized in subtle reproductive drawings, etchings, and engravings of paintings;…
Sébastien Leclerc, French painter (died 1714)
Lorenzo Magalotti was an Italian philosopher, writer, diplomat and poet.
Lorenzo Magalotti, Italian philosopher (died 1712)
Niwa Nagashige was a Japanese daimyō who served the Oda clan. Nagashige was the eldest son of Niwa Nagahide and married the 5th daughter of Oda Nobunaga. He took part in his first…
Niwa Nagashige, Japanese daimyō (born 1571)
Isaac Beeckman was a Dutch philosopher and scientist, who, through his studies and contact with leading natural philosophers, may have "virtually given birth to modern atomism".
Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (born 1588)
John Boteler, 1st Baron Boteler of Brantfield, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1625 to 1626. The Butlers of Hertfordshire claimed descent from Ralph …
John Boteler, 1st Baron Boteler of Brantfield, English politician (born c
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, often known simply as Peiresc, or by the Latin form of his name, Peirescius, was a French astronomer, antiquary and savant, who maintained a wide c…
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer and historian (born 1580)
Ben Jonson was an English actor, poet and playwright. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence on English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is …
Ben Jonson, English poet and playwright (born 1572)
Robert Fludd, also known as Robertus de Fluctibus, was a prominent English Paracelsian physician with both scientific and occult interests. He is remembered as an astrologer, mathe…
Robert Fludd, English physician, mathematician, and cosmologist (born 1574)
Katherine Clifton, 2nd Baroness Clifton, was an English-born Scottish peer.
Katherine Clifton, 2nd Baroness Clifton, English-Scottish peer
William V, a member of the House of Hesse, was Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel from 1627 to 1637. Having come to rule in unfavorable circumstances and in the midst of the Thirty Years' W…
William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (born 1602)
Lorenzo Ruiz, also called Saint Lorenzo of Manila, was a Filipino Catholic layman and a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic. A Chinese Filipino, he became his country's prot…
Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino saint (born c.1600)