1630

Events

• February 22 - Native American Quadequine introduces Popcorn to English colonists
• June 6 - Swedish warships depart from Stockholm to Germany
• June 26 - Swedish troops begin to land in Pomerania to aid Protestants
• July 6 - Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus land in Germany.
• July 6 - Success, last ship of the Winthrop Fleet, lands safely at Salem harbor, MBC.
• July 8 - The MBC celebrates its first Thanksgiving Day.
• 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 (the colony will not prosper; believed to have dispersed later)
• November 10-11 – 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

Births

• May 29 - Charles II, future king of England, Scotland, and Ireland
• October 14 - Sophia of Hanover, later heir to the throne of Great Britain

Deaths

• November 15 - Johannes Kepler, German astronomer

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