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1630s
1630
1630, Feb. 26:	The English mathematician and astronomer Henry Briggs dies at Oxford, England.
1630, Feb. 16:	A Dutch fleet captures the Portuguese-Spanish settlement of Olinda in Brazil.
1630, Mar. 3:	A Dutch fleet captures the Portuguese-Spanish settlement of Recife in Brazil.
1630, May 17:	Niccolo Zucchi, an Italian Jesuit, discovers the belts on Jupiter's surface.
1630, Summer:	Gustavus Adolphus lands Swedish troops at Peenemünde, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and thus enters the Thirthy Years War.
1630, Jul. 6:	The last ship of the Winthrop fleet, the Success, safely arrives at Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1630, Sept. 25:	The Spanish general Ambrogio Spinola dies during the siege of Casale, Monferrato (present Italy).
1630, Oct. 14:	Sophie of Hanover, daughter of the Elector Palatine Frederik V and Elizabeth Stuart, is born at The Hague.
1630, Nov. 5:	England and Spain sign the Peace Treaty of Madrid, brought about by, among others, Pieter Paul Rubens.
1630, Nov. 15:	The astronomer Johannes Kepler dies at Regensburg, Bavaria.

	Dirck Rafaelsz Camphuysen, Uytbreyding over de psalmen, Amsterdam: Michiel Colijn.
	Willem Jansz Blaeu, Atlantis appendix, Amsterdam: Willem Jansz Blaeu.
	Johann Heinrich Alsted, Encyclopaedia Septem tomis distincta, Herborn: s.n.
1631
1631, Jan. 13:	Sweden and France sign the Treaty of Bärwalde, by which the latter obliges itself to pay a yearly subsidy of 400,000 Reichsthaler.
1631, Apr. 19:	Adriaen Pauw replaces Jacob Cats as Pensionary of Holland.
1631, May 20:	Some twenty thousand inhabitants are killed during the Sack of Magdeburg by troops under Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, an event that causes outrage among European Protestants.
1631, May 30:	The Catholic Maximilian of Bavaria and the French sign the secret Treaty of Fontainebleau.
1631, Jun. 19:	The Matovian crisis is ended by the Peace of Cherasco, freeing Imperial and Spanish troops to be deployed north.
1631, Jul.:	Marie de Médicis, mother of Louis XIII, flees to the Spanish Netherlands.
1631, Sept. 12:	An attempt to isolate Zeeland from Holland fails as the Spanish troops are defeated in the Battle of Slaak, during which Johannes van den Enden is captured.
1631, Sept. 17:	Gustavus Adolphus crushes the Catholic army under Tilly and thus opens the road to invade the whole empire.
1631, Nov. 7:	The inventor Cornelis Jacobsz Drebbel dies at London.
1631, Nov. 7:	The philosopher Pierre Gassendi observes a transit of Mercury, as predicted by Kepler.
1631, Dec. 7:	The philosopher Anne Finche, Viscountess Conway, is born at London.
1632
1632, Jan.:	The Athenaeum Illustre of Amsterdam is inaugurated.
1632, Apr.:	Count van den Bergh and other disgruntled nobles secretly negotiate with France and the Dutch Republic, but when their treason is discovered, Van den Bergh flees to Liège.
1632, Jun. 3 & 6:	Prince Frederick Henry conquers Venlo and Roermond.
1632, Aug. 23:	In spite of the arrival of Imperial forces under Pappenheim, Frederick Henry conquers Maastricht.
1632, Aug. 29:	The philosopher John Locke is born in Somerset.
1632, Sept.:	The States General of the Spanish Netherlands is assembled, to negotiate directly with the Dutch States General.
1632, Oct. 24:	The biologist Anthony van Leeuwenhoek is born at Delft.
1632, Oct. 31:	The painter Johannes Vermeer is born at Delft.
1632, Nov. 6:	The Dutch States General agrees to peace talks with the Spanish Netherlands.
1632, Nov. 6:	Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden is killed in the Battle of Lützen and is succeeded by the under-age Christina.
1632, Nov. 24:	The Jewish philosopher Benedictus de Spinoza is born at Amsterdam.
1632, Dec. 6:	The navigator David Pietersz de Vries arrives in Swanendael (present Lewes, Delaware) and finds the settlement completely destroyed.

	Galileo Galilei, Dialogo, Florence: Gio. Batista Landini.
	Franco Burgersdijck, Collegivm Physicvm, Leiden: Abraham & Bonaventura Elzevier.
	Jean-Charles della Faille, Theoremata de centro gravitatis partivm circvli et ellipsis, Antwerp: Johannes Meursius.
	Mennaseh ben Israel, Conciliator, Francofurti [= Amsterdam]: s.l.
1633
1633, May 15:	Franciscus van den Enden is dismissed from the Jesuit Order.
1633, Jun.:	The negotiations between the Dutch Republic and the Spanish Netherlands are on the verge of collapse, as the Dutch 'Peace Party', mainly consisting of Remonstrants, and the 'War Party', mainly Counter-Remonstrants, cannot come to an agreement.
1633, Jun. 19:	The theologian Phillipus van Limborch is born at Amsterdam.
1633, Jun. 22:	The inquisition forces Galileo Galilei to abjure his Copernican theories and places him under house arrest.
1633, Dec. 1:	The Infanta Isabella, governor of the Spanish Netherlands, dies in Brussels and is succeeded by Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand.
1633, Dec. 9:	The States General vote to break off the peace talks with the Spanish Netherlands, after Frederick Henry openly took the side of the War Party.
1634
1634, Mar. 3:	The first English Catholic settlers arrive in Maryland.
1634, Mar. 20:	The theologian Balthasar Bekker is born in Metslawier (Friesland).
1634, Jul.:	The States General of the Spanish Netherlands are disolved, as the peace negotiations with the Dutch Republic had come to an end.
1634, Jul.-Aug.:	The Dutch occupy Curaçao.
1634, Sept. 7:	Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand and Ferdinand of Hungary, the future Emperor Ferdinand III, defeat a Protestant army at the Battle of Nördlingen.
1634, Nov. 4:	Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, the new governor, makes his entry into Brussels.

	Marin Mersenne, Les préludes de l'harmonie universelle, Paris: H. Guenon.
	Marin Mersenne, Traité des mouvemens, Paris: Jacques Villery.
1635
1635, Feb. 8:	France and the Dutch Republic sign an offensive alliance.
1635, Feb. 22:	Cardinal Richelieu founds the Académie française.
1635, Apr. 28:	France and Sweden sign an alliance.
1635, May 19:	An army under Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand captures Trier, a French protectorate.
1635, May 26:	A French herald arrives at Brussels and reads out a declaration of war on Spain.
1635, Jun. 9:	Tienen is conquered and sacked by Dutch and French troops, who afterwards capture Diest and Aarschot.
1635, Jul. 4:	The siege of Leuven collapses after ten days and the French and Dutch troops suffer serious losses during their retreat.
1635, Jul. 18:	The scientist Robert Hooke is born at Freshwater (Isle of Wight).
1635, Jul. 26:	Spanish troops capture the supposedly impregnable Schenkenschans, a vital link in the Dutch defence.
1635, Oct.:	The religious dissenter Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

	Willem Jansz Blaeu, Theatrvm orbis terrarvm, Amsterdam: Willem Jansz Blaeu.
	John Selden, Mare clausum, London: Richard Stansby & Richard Meighen.
	Cornelius Jansenius, Mars Gallicus, s.l.: s.n.
1636
1636, Mar. 26:	The University of Utrecht is founded.
1636, Jun. 4:	Jacob Cats replaces Adriaan Pauw as Pensionary of Holland.
1636, Aug. 15:	Spanish troops and Imperial cavalry invade France and conquer Corbie, causing panic in Paris.
1636, Apr. 29:	After a relentless bombardment throughout the winter, Frederick Henry is able to retake the Schenkenschans.
1636, Sept. 8:	Harvard College, Massachusetts, is founded.
1636, Nov. 14:	After a siege the French are able to recapture Corbie.
1636, Nov. 30:	Cornelius Jansenius is installed as Bishop of Ypres.
1637
1637, Jan. 23:	John Maurice of Nassau-Siegen arrives in Brazil as its new Dutch governor.
1637, Feb. 12:	The scientist Jan Swammerdam is born at Amsterdam.
1637, Feb. 12:	Emperor Ferdinand II dies and is succeeded by Ferdinand III.
1637, Aug. 28:	A Dutch fleet, sent from Brazil by John Maurice, captures the main centre of the transatlantic slave trade, Fort Elmina on the west coast of Africa.
1637, Sept. 3:	Willem Kieft is appointed as new director-general of New Netherland.
1637, Oct. 10:	After a siege of several months Breda is captured by Dutch forces under Prince Frederick Henry.
1637, Nov.:	Anne Hutchinson is put on trial at Massachusetts for religious dissent and is banished from the colony.

	René Descartes, Discours de la methode, Leiden: Jan Maire.
	Bartholomeus de los Rios y Alarcon, Phoenix Thenensis, Antwerp: Balthasar Moretus.
	Joost van den Vondel, Gysbreght van Aemstel, Amsterdam: Willem Jansz Blaeu.
1638
1638, Jan.:	A Scottish National Covenant demands the immediate withdrawal of the Book of Common Prayer.
1638, Jan. 3:	The Amsterdam City Theatre opens its doors.
1638, Jan. 10:	The scientist Nicolaus Steno is born at Copenhagen.
1638, Mar.:	Peter Minuit, the former Dutch director of New Netherland, arrives at the Delaware River and founds New Sweden.
1638, Mar. 28:	The anatomist Frederik Ruysch is born at The Hague.
1638, May 6:	Cornelius Jansenius dies at Ypres.
1638, Nov. 19:	Nicolaes van Vlooswijck, Lord of Diemerbroek, Papenkop and Raephorst, is baptized at the Remonstrant church of Amsterdam.
1638, Nov. 21:	The carthographer and publisher Willem Jansz Blaeu dies at Amsterdam.
1638, Jun. 20:	Kallo, recently captured by Dutch forces, is retaken by Spanish troops.
1638, Dec. 17:	After a siege of nearly four months, the imperial garisson of Breisach, on the Rhine, capitulates to a combined Franco-Swedish army.

	Galileo Galilei, Discorsi, Leiden: Louis Elzevier.
	Henri de Rohan, De l'interêt des Princes et Etats De la Chrétienté , Paris: Jean Houzé.
	Daniël Jonctijs, Verhandelingh der toover-sieckten, Dordrecht: Hendrick van Esch & Jasper Goris.
1639
1639, Jan. 14:	The Fundamental Orders, the constitution of Connecticut, is adopted.
1639, Feb.:	The Scottish covenanters open hostilities with the capture of Inverness, Scotland.
1639, May 21:	Tommaso Campanella dies at Paris.
1639, Oct. 21:	A Dutch fleet under Maarten Harpertsz Tromp destroys a much larger Spanish Armada in the Battle of the Downs.
1639, Dec. 4:	Jeremiah Horrocks is the first to observe Venus transit the sun.

	Johannes van Beverwyck, Van de wtnementheyt des vrovwelicken geslachts, Dordrecht: Hendrick van Esch & Jasper Goris.