History
1629
General
Population: 543 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Pedro Calderon de la Barca (comedy), Pierre Corneille (comedy), John Ford (romantic play), Philip Massinger (tragedy),
Lancelot Andrews (sermons), Thomas Hobbes translates The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
Art includes Bernini completing St. Peter's in Rome, Van Dyck "Rinaldo and Armida", Velazquez "The Drunkards", Francisco de Zurbaran "St. Bonaventura"
Music includes Heinrich Schutz "Sinfoniae sacrae"
- Mathematics: Dutch mathematician Albert Gerard first uses brackets and other abbreviations in mathematics
- Science: John Parkinson writes regarding flowers
- Deaths: Composer Paolo Agostini, Virginia governor Edwin Sandys,
Asia
- India: Shah Jahan the Great Mogul orders making of the peacock throne
Taj Mahal considered by Shah Jahan in memory of wife Mumtaz Mahal
- Japan: Women forbidden to act in Kabuki theater
Europe
- General: Pease of Susa ends war between England and France
Truce of Altmark signed between Sweden and Poland
Treaty of Lübeck creates peace between Denmark and Germany
Commercial treaty signed between Russia and France
- Denmark: Peace of Lübeck – Christian IV undertakes not to intervene in imperial affairs
- England: Charles I tries to rule without parliament until 1640 after conflict over duties
Peter Paul Reubens knighted by Charles I
Royal Charter granted to Guild of Spectacle Makers in London
- France: Peace of Alais ends Huguenot revolt - Huguenots conquered
- German States: Edict of restitution of Catholic church property in Germany secularized since Peace of Ausburg 1555
Wallenstein made Duke of Mecklenberg
- Hungary: End of reign of Bethlen Gabor of Transylvania
Middle East
- Iraq: Accession of Shah Safi marks beginning of Safavid decline
- Persia: End of reign of Shah Abbas I the Great
Pacific
- Australia: Two Dutch mutineers settle in Australia – may be first Europeans
East
- Maine: Gorges and mason split NH and ME and establish trading posts
- Massachusetts: Colony founded by Massachusetts Bay Company - Puritans with John Winthrop and Richard Salstonstall settle
- New Hampshire: Gorges and Mason split NH and ME and establish trading posts
- New York: Dutch found New Amsterdam as Dutch West India Co. offers land to settlers