1630s

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Millennia:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades:	1600s 1610s 1620s - 1630s - 1640s 1650s 1660s
Years:	1630 1631 1632 1633 1634 1635 1636 1637 1638 1639
Categories:	Births - Deaths - Architecture Establishments - Disestablishments

[edit] Events and trends

• Great Migration
• Thirty Years' War in full swing in Europe
• 1632 - Just a couple of months before his death in battle, Swedish king Gustav II Adolf The Great ratifies the establishment of University of Tartu, the second university in the Swedish Empire
• September 8, 1636 - A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes Harvard College as the first college founded in the Americas.
• 1639, Fort St George, the first settlement of British India, is founded at Madras. ^[1]

[edit] World leaders

• King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway (1588 - 1648).
• King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland (1625 - 1649).
• Hong Taiji, Emperor of the Qing.
• King Louis XIII of France (1610 - 1643).
• Cardinal Richelieu, chief minister of France (1624 - 1642).
• Ferdinand II (1620 - 1637).
• Ferdinand III (1637 - 1657).
• Frederick Henry, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Overijssel and Gelderland (1625 - 1647).
• Pope Urban VIII (1623 - 1644).
• King Philip IV of Spain (1621 - 1665).
• King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (1611 - 1632)
• Queen Christina of Sweden (1632 - 1654).

[edit] References

1. ^ Roberts, J: "History of the World.". Penguin, 1994.

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