Explore 94 historical events from 1630–1639.
Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon was a French nobleman and member of the House of La Tour d'Auvergne, one of the most important families in France at the ti…
Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon, French noble (died 1721)
Sir Julius Caesar was an English lawyer, judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1589 and 1622. He was also known as Julius Adelmare.
Julius Caesar, English judge and politician (born 1557)
George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, 6th Earl of Huntly was a Scottish nobleman who took a leading role in the political and military life of Scotland in the late 16th century, a…
George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, Scottish politician (born 1562)
Date Masamune was a Japanese samurai and daimyō during the Azuchi–Momoyama period through the early Edo period. Heir to a long line of powerful feudal lords in the Tōhoku region, …
Date Masamune, Japanese strongman (born 1567)
The Boston Latin School is a magnet Latin grammar state school in Boston, Massachusetts. It has been in continuous operation since it was established on April 23, 1635, and is one …
The first public school in the United States, the Boston Latin School, is founded
The Thirty Years' War, fought primarily in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648, was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history. An estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldie…
Thirty Years' War: The Peace of Prague is signed
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: The Spanish capture the strategic Dutch fortress of Schenkenschans.
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)
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)
Guadeloupe is an overseas department and region of the French Republic in the Caribbean. It consists of six inhabited islands—Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galante, La Désirade,…
Guadeloupe becomes a French colony
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: The Siege of Schenkenschans begins; Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, begins the recapture of the…
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)
Adam Dollard des Ormeaux is an iconic figure in the history of New France. Arriving in the colony in 1658, Dollard was appointed the position of garrison commander of Fort Ville-Ma…
Adam Dollard des Ormeaux, New France garrison commander (died 1660)
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)
Trois-Rivières is a city in the Mauricie administrative region of Quebec, Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice and Saint Lawrence rivers, on the north shore…
The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France (now Quebec, Canada).
Pasquier Quesnel, CO was a French Jansenist theologian.
Pasquier Quesnel, French priest and theologian (died 1719)
Johannes Camphuys was the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1684 to 1691. Camphuys was born in Haarlem, in the Republic of the United Netherlands.
Johannes Camphuys, Dutch politician, Governor-general of the Dutch East Indies (died 1695)
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)
Johann Reichsgraf von Aldringen was a Luxemburger who served in the armies of the Spanish Habsburgs and later the Austrian Habsburgs, especially during the Thirty Years' War.
Johann von Aldringen, Austrian field marshal (born 1588)
John Marston was an English playwright, poet and satirist during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods. His career as a writer lasted only a decade. His work is remembere…
John Marston, English poet and playwright (born 1576)
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