Explore 187 historical events from 1630–1639.
New France was the territory colonized by France in mainland North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with …
Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.
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
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
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)
Girolamo Corner or Cornaro was a Venetian nobleman and statesman. He served in high military posts during the Morean War against the Ottoman Empire, leading the Venetian conquest o…
Girolamo Corner, Venetian statesman and military commander (died 1690)
Louis Bourdaloue was a French Jesuit and preacher.
Louis Bourdaloue, French preacher and academic (died 1704)
John Locke was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of the Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism". …
John Locke, English physician and philosopher (died 1704)
Sir Edward Hungerford, KB, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1659 and 1702. He was famous for his profligate ways and sold thirty manors, including …
Edward Hungerford, English politician (died 1711)
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)
Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek was a Dutch microbiologist and microscopist in the Golden Age of Dutch art, science and technology. A largely self-taught man in science, he is comm…
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch biologist and microbiologist (died 1723)
Sir Christopher Wren was an English architect, astronomer, mathematician and physicist who is one of the most highly acclaimed architects in the history of England. Known for his w…
Christopher Wren, English physicist, mathematician, and architect, designed St Paul's Cathedral (died 1723)
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)
Adam Tanner was an Austrian Jesuit theologian.
Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (born 1572)
Sir James Whitelocke SL was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1610 and 1622.
James Whitelocke, English judge and politician, Chief Justice of Chester (born 1570)
Robert de Vere, 19th Earl of Oxford was an English soldier, and the penultimate Earl of Oxford.
Robert de Vere, 19th Earl of Oxford, English soldier (born 1575)
Thomas Dekker was an English Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer, a versatile and prolific writer, whose career spanned several decades and brought him into contact with many of …
Thomas Dekker, English author and playwright (born 1572)
Leopold V, Archduke of Further Austria was the son of Archduke Charles II of Inner Austria, and the younger brother of Emperor Ferdinand II, father of Ferdinand Charles, Archduke o…
Leopold V, Archduke of Austria (born 1586)
Kutsuki Mototsuna was a samurai commander in Azuchi-Momoyama period and Edo period. His father was Kutsuki Harutsuna. The Kutsuki were a powerful clan at Kutsuki-tani (朽木谷), Takas…
Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese commander (born 1549)
Henri de Montmorency, 4th Duke of Montmorency was a French military officer. Made Grand Amiral in 1612, governor of Languedoc in 1614, and by 1620 was viceroy of New France. Despit…
Henri II de Montmorency, French admiral and politician (born 1595)
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
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