1630

	1630 in topic:
	Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
	Art – Literature – Music – Science
	Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
	Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
	Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

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

[edit] Events of 1630

February 22 – Native American Quadequine introduces popcorn to English colonists.
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 26 – July 6 – Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus land in Pomerania, Germany to aid the Protestants.

July 6 – The Success, last ship of the Winthrop Fleet, lands safely at Salem harbor, Massachusetts Bay Colony.
July 30 – John Winthrop helps in founding a church in Massachusetts which will later become known as First Church in Boston.
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.
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.

See also Category:1630 births.

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)

See also Category:1630 deaths.