Explore 61 historical events from 1630–1639.
Johann Joachim Becher was a German physician, alchemist, precursor of chemistry, scholar, polymath and adventurer, best known for his terra pinguis theory which became the phlogist…
Johann Joachim Becher, German physician and alchemist (died 1682)
Philippe Quinault was a French dramatist and librettist.
Philippe Quinault, French playwright and composer (died 1688)
Katherine Ferrers was an English gentlewoman and heiress. According to popular legend, she was also the "Wicked Lady", a highwaywoman who terrorised the English county of Hertfords…
Katherine Ferrers, English aristocrat and heiress (died 1660)
Charles Emmanuel II ; 20 June 1634 – 12 June 1675) was Duke of Savoy and ruler of the Savoyard states from 4 October 1638 until his death in 1675 and under regency of his mother Ch…
Charles Emmanuel II, duke of Savoy (died 1675)
George Chapman was an English dramatist, translator and poet. He was a classical scholar whose work shows the influence of Stoicism. Chapman is seen as an anticipator of the metaph…
George Chapman, English poet and playwright (born 1559)
Hendrick Avercamp was a Dutch painter during the Dutch Golden Age of painting. He was one of the earliest landscape painters of the 17th-century Dutch school, he specialized in pai…
Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (born 1585)
Charles I was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.
Charles I is crowned King of Scots at St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh
Willem Drost was a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker of history paintings and portraits.
Willem Drost, Dutch painter (died 1659)
Tsuguhito , posthumously honored as Emperor Go-Kōmyō , was the 110th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.
Emperor Go-Kōmyō of Japan (died 1654)
Sébastien Le Prestre, Marquis of Vauban was a French Royal Army officer who served under Louis XIV. One of the most important military engineers in European history, his defensive …
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, French noble (died 1707)
Geminiano Montanari was an Italian astronomer, lens-maker, and proponent of the experimental approach to science. He was a member of various learned academies, notably the Accademi…
Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer and academic (died 1687)
Jean de Thévenot was a French traveller in Asia, who wrote extensively about his journeys. He was also a linguist, natural scientist and botanist.
Jean de Thévenot, French linguist and botanist (died 1667)
Philipp van Limborch was a Dutch Remonstrant theologian and a fierce opponent of the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza's in the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus. He befriended John Locke,…
Philipp van Limborch, Dutch author and theologian (died 1712)
The Plymouth Company, officially known as the Virginia Company of Plymouth, was a company chartered by King James in 1606 along with the Virginia Company of London with responsibil…
The Plymouth Company granted a land patent to Thomas Purchase, the first settler of Pejepscot, Maine, settling at the si
Mary Catherine of St. Augustine, OSA was a French canoness regular who was instrumental in the development of the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec in the colony of New France. She has been bea…
Catherine of St
Heino Heinrich Reichsgraf von Flemming was a Saxon, later Brandenburger army leader and field marshal and Governor of Berlin.
Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming, German field marshal and politician (died 1706)
Esprit Fléchier was a French preacher and author, Bishop of Nîmes from 1687 to 1710.
Esprit Fléchier, French bishop and author (died 1710)
Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly was a field marshal who commanded the Catholic League's forces in the Thirty Years' War. From 1620 to 1631, he won an unmatched and demoralizing st…
Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, Bavarian general (born 1559)
Sigismund III Vasa was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1587 to 1632 and, as Sigismund, King of Sweden from 1592 to 1599. He was the first Polish sovereign from the …
Sigismund III Vasa, Swedish-Polish son of John III of Sweden (born 1566)
Adam Tanner was an Austrian Jesuit theologian.
Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (born 1572)
Robert Hues was an English mathematician and geographer. He attended St. Mary Hall at Oxford, and graduated in 1578. Hues became interested in geography and mathematics, and studie…
Robert Hues, English mathematician and geographer (born 1553)
Dorchester is a neighborhood comprising more than 6 square miles (16 km2) in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Originally, Dorchester was a separate town, founded b…
In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts
Magdeburg is the capital of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. The city is on the Elbe river.
The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in
La Gazette, originally Gazette de France, was the first weekly magazine published in France. It was founded by Théophraste Renaudot and published its first edition on 30 May 1631. …
Publication of Gazette de France, the first French newspaper