Explore 147 historical events from 1630–1639.
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)
William Noy was an English jurist.
William Noy, English lawyer and judge (born 1577)
Urbain Grandier was a French Catholic priest who was burned at the stake after being convicted of witchcraft, following the events of the so-called "Loudun possessions". Most moder…
Urbain Grandier, French priest (born 1590)
Sir Edward Coke was an English barrister, judge, and politician. He is often considered the greatest jurist of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras.
Edward Coke, English lawyer, judge, and politician, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (born 1552)
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
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)
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
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)
Sebastian Knüpfer was a German composer, conductor and educator. He was the Thomaskantor, cantor of the Thomanerchor in Leipzig and director of the towns's church music, from 1657 …
Sebastian Knüpfer, German cantor and composer (died 1676)
Ferdinand IV was made and crowned King of Bohemia in 1646, King of Hungary and Croatia in 1647, and King of the Romans on 31 May 1653. He also served as Duke of Cieszyn.
Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans (died 1654)
George Abbot was an English bishop who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1611 to 1633. He also served as the fourth chancellor of the University of Dublin, from 1612 to 1633.
George Abbot, English archbishop and academic (born 1562)
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)