1630

Years:
1627 1628 1629 - 1630 - 1631 1632 1633

Decades:
1600s 1610s 1620s - 1630s - 1640s 1650s 1660s

Centuries:
16th century - 17th century - 18th century

1630 by topic:
Arts and Science
Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science
Lists of leaders
Colonial governors - State leaders
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Works category
Works

1630 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events

February 22 - Native American Quadequine introduces popcorn to English colonists.
March 22 - Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
June 6 - Swedish warships depart from Stockholm to Germany.
June 26 - July 6 - Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus land in Pomerania, Germany to aid Protestants.
July 6 - Success, last ship of the Winthrop Fleet, lands safely at Salem harbor, MBC.
September 17 - The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.
September 24 - First ship of de Sauce's emigrants arrive at Southampton Hundred on the James River.
November 10-November 11 – Day of Dupes – Marie de Medicis' unsuccessful attempt 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 "", an attack on Anglican bishops, in London. He was sentenced by Archbishop William Laud's High Commission Court to public whipping, branding, and having his ears cut off.

January 11 - John Rogers, American President of Harvard (died 1684)
February 19 - Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire (died 1680)
April 28 - Charles Cotton, English poet (died 1687)
May 29 - King Charles II of England Scotland, and Ireland (died 1685)
August 1 - Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (died 1673)
October 14 - Sophia of Hanover, heir to the throne of Great Britain (died 1714)
October - John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1694)
November 24 - Etienne Baluze, French scholar (died 1718)
November 27 - Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria, regent of Tyrol and Further Austria (died 1665)