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| Years: 1628 1629 1630 - 1631 - 1632 1633 1634 | ||||||||||
| Decades: 1600s 1610s 1620s - 1630s - 1640s 1650s 1660s | ||||||||||
| Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
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Events
- February 5 - Roger Williams emigrates to Boston.
- February 16 - Gustav Adolf Secondary School was founded in Tallinn, Estonia by Swedish king Gustav II Adolf.
- May 10 - During the Thirty Years' War imperial troops storm the German city of Magdeburg and commit a massacre. About 20,000 inhabitants are killed.
- May 18 - In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.
- June 20 - Algerian pirates sack Baltimore, County Cork in Ireland.
- October 10 - A Saxon army take over Prague.
- Moses Amyraut's Traite des Religions is published.
- The bell "Emmanuel" in Notre Dame de Paris is recast.
Births
- February 20 - Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, English statesman (d. 1712)
- March 16 - René Le Bossu, French critic (d. 1680)
- May 2 - Sir John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl (d.1703)
- July 15 - Jens Juel, Danish diplomat (d. 1700)
- August 19 - John Dryden, English writer (d. 1700)
- September 3 - William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (d. 1701)
- November 4 - Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (d. 1660)
- December 14 - Lady Anne Finch Conway, English philosopher (d. 1679)
Deaths
- March 31 - John Donne, English writer and prelate (b. 1572)
- May 6 - Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician
- June 17 - Mumtaz Mahal, favorite wife of Shah Jahan (b. April 1593)
- July 28 - Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish dramatist (b. 1569)
- December 23 - Michael Drayton, English poet (b. 1563)
- John Smith of Jamestown, English soldier and colonist (b. 1580)
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