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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1600s 1610s 1620s – 1630s – 1640s 1650s 1660s
Years:	1627 1628 1629 – 1630 – 1631 1632 1633

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Year 1630 (MDCXXX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

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February 22 – Native American Quadequine introduces popcorn to English colonists.
March 3 – A fleet sent by the Dutch West India Company captures Recife from the Portuguese, establishing Dutch Brazil.
March 22 – Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
March 29 – Great Migration: The ship Arbella and three other ships leave Southampton, England with 400 passengers headed for the Massachusetts Bay Colony in America.
June 6 – Swedish warships depart from Stockholm to Germany.
June 14 – Passengers of the Arbella, including Anne Bradstreet, America's first poet of significance, finally set foot in the New World in Salem, MA

July 6
- The Success, last ship of the Winthrop Fleet, lands safely at Salem harbor, Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- Thirty Years' War: Leading an army of 13.000, king Gustav Adolf of Sweden enter the Thirty Years' War on protestant side by making landfall at Peenemünde, Pomerania.
July 9 – Thirty Years' War: Stettin is taken by Swedish forces.
July 18 – War of Mantuan Succession: Mantua is sacked by an imperial army led by Count Johann von Aldringen.
July 30 – John Winthrop helps in founding a church in Massachusetts which will later become known as First Church in Boston.
August – Thirty Years' War: As a result of heavy pressure from the Prince-electors, Ferdinand II dismisses general Wallenstein from command of the imperial army.
September 4 – Thirty Years' War: the Treaty of Stettin is signed by Sweden and Pomerania, forming a close alliance between them, as well as giving Sweden full military control over Pomerania.
September 17 – The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.
September 24 – The first ship of de Sauce's emigrants arrive at Southampton Hundred on the James River in Virginia.
October 13 – War of Mantuan Succession: the Peace of Regensburg is signed. Charles Gonzaga is confirmed as Duke of Mantua.
November 10–November 11 – Day of Dupes: Marie de' Medici unsuccessfully attempts to oust Richelieu.

Johann Heinrich Alsted's Encyclopaedia is published.
The first account of the Childes Tomb story is published.
Paramaribo, Suriname is first settled by the British.
Puritan pamphleteer Dr. Alexander Leighton publishes Zion's Plea Against Prelacy: An Appeal to Parliament, an attack on Anglican bishops, in London. He is sentenced by Archbishop William Laud's High Commission Court to public whipping, branding, and having his ears cut off.
First year of Deccan famine in India—which will kill some 2,000,000 in 3 years.
Thirty Years' War: Swedish intervention starts.
Fedorovych Uprising: Zaporozhian Cossacks rebel against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and occupy a large part of present day Ukraine. After a number of indecisive skirmishes with a Polish army sent to pacify the region, the Treaty of Pereiaslav is signed, ending the uprising.

January 26 – Henry Briggs, English mathematician (b. 1556)
February 12 – Fynes Moryson, English traveler and writer (b. 1566)
February 26 – William Brade, English composer (b. 1560)
April 29 – Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet and soldier (b. 1552)
July 16 – Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1562)
September 17 – Thomas Lake, English statesman (b. 1567)
September 18 – Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal and statesman (b. 1552)
September 20 – Claudio Saracini, Italian composer (b. 1586)
September 25 – Ambrogio Spinola, marqués de los Balbases, Italian general (b. 1569)
November 15 – Johannes Kepler, German astronomer (b. 1571)
November 19 – Johann Schein, German composer (b. 1586)
date unknown
- Gabriel Harvey, writer (b. c. 1545)
- Giulio Mancini, papal physician (b. 1558)

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