Explore 94 historical events from 1630–1639.
Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten or Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraeten was a Dutch painter of still lifes, in particular floral and vanitas still lifes. He also painted genre scenes and…
Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten, Dutch-English painter (died 1700)
John Hale was the Puritan pastor of Beverly, Massachusetts, and took part in the Salem witch trials in 1692. He was one of the most prominent and influential ministers associated w…
John Hale, American minister (died 1700)
Francesco Maidalchini was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
Francesco Maidalchini, Catholic cardinal (died 1700)
The Eighty Years' War or Dutch Revolt was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate groups of rebels and the Spanish government. The causes of the war include…
Eighty Years' War: Dutch Republic forces recapture a strategically important fort from Spain after a nine-month siege
Frans van Mieris the Elder, was a Dutch Golden Age genre and portrait painter. The leading member of a Leiden family of painters, his sons Jan (1660–1690) and Willem (1662–1747) an…
Frans van Mieris the Elder, Dutch painter (died 1681)
Esaias Reusner was a German lutenist and composer.
Esaias Reusner, German lute player and composer (died 1679)
Edward Stillingfleet was an English Christian theologian and scholar. Considered an outstanding preacher as well as a strong polemical writer defending Anglicanism, Stillingfleet w…
Edward Stillingfleet, British theologian and scholar (died 1699)
Willem Drost was a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker of history paintings and portraits.
Willem Drost, Dutch painter (died 1659)
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
Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné was a French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler. His epic poem Les Tragiques (1616) is widely regarded as his masterpiece. In a book about his Ca…
Agrippa d'Aubigné, French soldier and poet (born 1552)
The Treaty of Zuhab, also called Treaty of Qasr-e Shirin, signed on 17 May 1639 at Qasr-e Shirin in western Iran, ended the Ottoman–Safavid War of 1623–1639. It strove to clarify t…
The treaty of Zuhab ends the fifteen year long war between the Ottomans and the Safavids
William Coddington was an early magistrate of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and later of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. He served as the judge of Portsmouth …
William Coddington founds Newport, Rhode Island
Giovanni Battista Gaulli, also known as Baciccio or Baciccia, was an Italian Baroque painter working in the High Baroque and early Rococo periods. He is best known for his grand il…
Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Italian artist (died 1709)
Charles Weston, 3rd Earl of Portland, was the only son and heir of the 2nd Earl of Portland and Lady Frances Stuart.
Charles Weston, 3rd Earl of Portland, English soldier and noble (died 1665)
Old Style (O.S.) and New Style (N.S.) indicate dating systems before and after a calendar change, respectively. Usually, they refer to the change from the Julian calendar to the Gr…
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Tommaso Campanella, baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet.
Tommaso Campanella, Italian astrologer, theologian, and poet (born 1568)
Melchior Franck was a German composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was a hugely prolific composer of Lutheran church music, especially motets, and assisted in…
Melchior Franck, German composer (born 1579)
Bernard of Saxe-Weimar was a duke of Saxe-Weimar and a politically active Protestant general during the Thirty Years' War (1618–48). Known as one of the most capable field commande…
Bernard of Saxe-Weimar, German general (born 1604)
Richard Simon CO, was a French priest, a member of the Oratorians, who was an influential biblical critic, orientalist and controversialist.
Richard Simon, French priest and scholar (died 1712)
Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon, PC was an English aristocrat and politician. He held high office at the beginning of the reign of his brother-in-law, King James II.
Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon (died 1709)
David Teniers III, also referred to as David Teniers Junior was a Flemish painter and tapestry designer who was mainly active in Antwerp, Madrid and Brussels. He is known for his p…
David Teniers III, Flemish painter (died 1685)
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)
Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani was an Italian composer and violinist. He worked in the court at Innsbruck as a violinist at least between 1656 and 1660. Between 1672 and 1676 he was…
Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani, Italian violinist and composer (died 1693)
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)
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)
The Eighty Years' War or Dutch Revolt was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate groups of rebels and the Spanish government. The causes of the war include…
Eighty Years' War: Dutch Republic forces recapture a strategically important fort from Spain after a nine-month siege
Esaias Reusner was a German lutenist and composer.
Esaias Reusner, German lute player and composer (died 1679)
Edward Colman or Coleman was an English Catholic courtier under Charles II of England. He was hanged, drawn and quartered on a treason charge, having been implicated by Titus Oates…
Edward Colman, English Catholic courtier under Charles II (died 1678)
John Hale was the Puritan pastor of Beverly, Massachusetts, and took part in the Salem witch trials in 1692. He was one of the most prominent and influential ministers associated w…
John Hale, American minister (died 1700)