Explore 94 historical events from 1630–1639.
The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) is a department of the Roman Curia in charge of the religious discipline of the Catholic Church. The Dicastery is the oldest among…
The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Univ
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)
Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian, was born at Bäretswil, in the Canton of Zürich.
Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian and author (died 1698)
Sir Joseph Williamson, PRS was an English civil servant, diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England variously between 1665 and 1701 and in the Irish House o…
Joseph Williamson, English politician (died 1701)
The University of Tartu is a public research university in Tartu, Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia, as well as the largest and oldest university in the country.
The University of Tartu is founded
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
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
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)
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)
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 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)
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
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
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