History
1630
General
Population: 543 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Andres Christensen Arrabo Hexaemeron (Danish poem), Corneille (tragicomedy), Tirso de Molina (Don Juan plays),
Philip Massinger (tragicomedy), Thomas Middleton (comedy), Sir John Hayward (King Edward VI), Francis Higginson (living conditions in America)
Art includes Frans Hals "Daniel van Aken Playing the Violin", Jusepe Ribera "Archimedes", Reubens "Blessings of Peace"
- Sports: English poet Sir John Suckling invents game of cribbage
- Deaths: Astronomer Johann Kepler, Composer Johann Herman Schein,
Americas
- Brazil: Dutch briefly overrun most of NE Brazil - invasion
- Canada: Smallpox outbreak
- Tortuga: Pirates called "buccaneers" settle in Tortuga off NW coast of Hispanola
Asia
- India: Start of construction of Taj Mahal
Famine in Deccan India during reign of Shah Jahan (Taj Mahal) followed by floods
Europe
- General: Thirty Years' War - Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden marches his army into Germany to help Catholics against Ferdinand II
Treaty of Madrid ends Anglo-French war - Peace with France and Spain
- France: "Days of Dupes" in France – Richelieu overthrows comspiracy of Maria de'Medici (Queen Mother)
Beginning of public advertising in Paris
French philanthropist Theophraste Renaudot founds labor-exchange charity and intelligence office in Paris
- German States: Congregation of the English Ladies founded in Munich
- Holland: First decline of tulip trade - see 1637
- Holy Roman Empire: Emperor Ferdinand II dismisses Wallenstein – Tilly made new commander
- Italian States: Beginning of High Baroque style in Italy to about 1680
Plague outbreak in Venice
Middle East
- Persia: Turks under Murad IV take Hamadan in Persia
General
- "Great Migration" to America begins to 1642 with 16,000 English settling in MA alone
East
- Massachusetts: John Winthrop the English Puritan leader sails with Plymouth Company’s expedition and arrives in Massachusetts with 1000 –
becomes first governor of the state and thousands more follow
Midwest
- General: French Jesuits explore Great Lakes