Editing 1630 (section)

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 2]] – A shoemaker in [[Turin]] is found to have the first case of bubonic plague there as the [[1629–1631 Italian plague|plague of 1630]] begins spreading through Italy. 
* [[January 5]] &ndash; A team of Portuguese military advisers to China's Ming dynasty government arrive at [[Zhuozhou]]. Led by [[Gonçalo Teixeira Corrêa]], and accompanied by interpreter [[João Rodrigues Tçuzu|João Rodrigues]], the group begins training the troops of Governor [[Sun Yuanhua]] in using modern cannons.
* [[January 11]] &ndash; [[Otto III, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg|Otto III]] and his brother [[William Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg|William Augustus]], both, Dukes of Brunswick-Harburg, sell their rights to inherit rule of [[Brunswick-Lüneburg]] to [[Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg|Prince Christian]] for in return of his payment of their debts of more than 150,000 thaler.
* [[January 13]] &ndash; In China, General [[Yuan Chonghuan]] is invited to an audience with the [[Chongzhen Emperor]] and is arrested on charges of collusion with the enemy. Yuan is executed by the slow death on September 22. 
* [[January 18]] &ndash; [[Nicolò Contarini]] is elected as the new [[Doge of Venice|Doge]] of the [[Republic of Venice]] and spends most of his time fighting a [[bubonic plague]] epidemic, but dies in office on April 2, 1631.
* [[February 22]] &ndash; [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] Quadequine introduces [[popcorn]] to English colonists.
* [[March 3]] &ndash; A fleet sent by the [[Dutch West India Company]] captures [[Recife]] from the Portuguese, establishing [[Dutch Brazil]].
* [[March 9]] &ndash; The [[1630 Crete earthquake]] occurs.
* [[March]] &ndash; [[Fedorovych Uprising]]: [[Zaporozhian Cossacks]] rebel against the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]], and occupy a large part of modern-day Ukraine. After a number of indecisive skirmishes with a Polish army sent to pacify the region, the [[Treaty of Pereyaslav (1630)|Treaty of Pereyaslav]] is signed, ending the uprising.

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 8]] &ndash; [[Puritan migration to New England (1620-1640)]]: [[Winthrop Fleet]] &ndash; The ship ''[[Arbella]]'' and three others set sail from the [[Solent]] in England, with 400 passengers under the leadership of [[John Winthrop]], headed for the [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] in America; seven more, with another 300 aboard, follow in the next few weeks.
* [[May 4]] &ndash; In an invasion of Persia, Ottoman Empire Grand Vizier [[Gazi Hüsrev Pasha]] routs the Persians in a battle at Mahidasht near Kermanshah. 
* [[May 17]]
**The first case of plague is reported in [[Milan]]. By the end of 1631, the city of 250,000 suffers 186,000 deaths, losing almost three-quarters of its population to plague.
**Italian astronomers [[Niccolò Zucchi]] and [[Daniello Bartoli]] become the first scientists to observe the belts on the planet [[Jupiter]]. 
* [[May 20]] &ndash; The [[Swedish National Heritage Board]] (''Riksantikvarieämbetet'') is created, with [[Johannes Bureus]] as its first director. The Board is still in existence almost 400 years later.
* [[May 25]] &ndash; [[Fedorovych uprising]]: The [[Zaporozhian Cossacks]], led by [[Taras Triasylo]], defeat Polish and Lithuanian troops led by General [[Stanisław Koniecpolski]] near [[Pereiaslav]]. The battle is later the subject of the Ukrainian language poem ''Tarasova nich''.
* [[May 29]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Villabuona]] is fought in Italy at Lombardy, with more than 4,000 French and Venetian troops killed in an attack by [[Matthias Gallas]] of the Holy Roman Empire's army.
* [[June 4]] &ndash; Scottish-born [[Presbyterian]] (and former physician) [[Alexander Leighton]] is brought before [[Archbishop]] [[William Laud]]'s [[Star Chamber]] court in London for publishing the [[seditious]] pamphlet ''An Appeale to the Parliament, or, Sions Plea Against the Prelacy'', an attack on [[Anglican]] [[bishop]]s (printed in the Netherlands, 1628).<ref>Theodore Schroeder, ''Constitutional Free Speech Defined and Defended in an Unfinished Argument in a Case of Blasphemy'' (Free Speech League, 1919), p. 194</ref> He is sentenced to be pilloried and whipped, have his ears cropped, one side of his nose slit, and his face branded with "SS" (for "sower of sedition"), to be imprisoned, and be degraded from holy orders.<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=Frances|last=Condick|title=Leighton, Alexander (c.1570–1649)|year=2004|edition=Online|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16395|access-date=2013-03-20|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/16395}}</ref>
* [[June 6]] &ndash; [[Swedish Navy|Swedish warships]] depart from [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]] for [[Central Europe]].
* [[June 12]] &ndash; [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] is founded, with [[John Winthrop]] as governor.<ref name="America">{{cite book|first=Clifton|last=Daniel|title=Chronicle of America|publisher=Chronicle publication|year=1989|page=57|isbn=0-13-133745-9}}</ref>
* [[June 14]] &ndash; Passengers of the ''[[Arbella]]'', including [[Anne Bradstreet]], America's first poet of significance, finally set foot in the [[New World]] at [[Salem, Massachusetts]].

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 6]]
** The ''Success'', last ship of the [[Winthrop Fleet]], lands safely at [[Salem, Massachusetts|Salem]] harbor, [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]].
** [[Swedish intervention in the Thirty Years' War]] begins when King [[Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden|Gustav Adolf of Sweden]], leading an army of 13,000 on the [[Protestant]] side, makes landfall at [[Peenemünde]], [[Pomerania]].
* [[July 9]] &ndash; [[Thirty Years' War]]: [[Stettin]] is taken by Swedish forces.
* [[July 18]] &ndash; [[War of the Mantuan Succession]]: [[Mantua]] is sacked by an army of the [[Holy Roman Empire]], led by Count [[Johann von Aldringen]].
* [[July 24]] &ndash; The [[Sibbald baronets of Rankelour (1630)|Sibbald baronets]] [[British nobility]] title is created.<ref>{{cite web |title= Leigh Rayment's list of baronets |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage.htm  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191021184256/http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage.htm |archive-date=21 October 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[July 30]] &ndash; [[John Winthrop]] helps in founding a church in [[Massachusetts Bay Colony|Massachusetts]], which will later become known as First Church in [[Boston]].
* [[July]] &ndash; The [[Italian plague of 1629–31]] reaches [[Venice]].
* [[August 13]] &ndash; [[Thirty Years' War]]: As a result of heavy pressure from the [[Prince-elector]]s, [[Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor]], dismisses general [[Albrecht von Wallenstein]] from command of the Imperial Army.
* [[August 25]] &ndash; [[Sinhalese–Portuguese War]]: In the [[Battle of Randeniwela]] on the island of [[Sri Lanka]], [[Senarat of Kandy|King Senarat]] of [[Kingdom of Kandy|Kandy]] leads more than 35,000 troops in killing most of an attack force led by Portuguese Ceylon governor [[Constantino de Sá de Noronha]].
* [[September 4]] &ndash; [[Thirty Years' War]]: the [[Treaty of Stettin (1630)|Treaty of Stettin]] is signed by Sweden and the [[Duchy of Pomerania]], forming a close alliance between them, as well as giving Sweden full military control over Pomerania.
* [[September 7]] &ndash; Governor [[John Winthrop]] passes a resolution declaring ''"that Trimontaine"'' on Shawmut peninsula ''shall be called [[Boston]]'' from now on.<ref name="America" />
* [[September 17]] (September 7 [[Old Style]]) &ndash; The settlement of [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] is founded.<ref>{{cite web|title=Historical note |url=http://www.cityofboston.gov/archivesandrecords/guide/town.asp |work=Archives Guide - Town of Boston |publisher=City of Boston |access-date=2013-03-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130420050502/https://www.cityofboston.gov/archivesandrecords/guide/town.asp |archive-date=April 20, 2013 |df=mdy }}</ref>
* [[September 24]] &ndash; The first ship of de Sauce's emigrants arrive at Southampton Hundred, on the [[James River]] in [[Virginia]].

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 13]] &ndash; [[War of the Mantuan Succession]]: the Peace of Regensburg is signed. [[Charles Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat|Charles Gonzaga]] is confirmed as [[Duke of Mantua]].
* [[October 17]] &ndash; [[Empress Meishō]]'s [[Coronation]] takes place.
* [[October 18]] &ndash; [[Frendraught Castle]] in Scotland, the home of [[James Crichton of Frendraught]], burns down.<ref>Robert Chambers, ''Domestic Annals of Scotland'', vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1859), pp. 43-50.</ref>
* [[November 10]] &ndash; [[Day of the Dupes]]: [[Marie de' Medici]] attempts to oust [[Cardinal Richelieu]] from the French Court, but fails after two days.<ref>{{cite web |title=Louis XIII {{!}} king of France |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-XIII |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=9 June 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 3]] &ndash; (28 Rabi II 1040 AH) [[Abd Allah ibn Hasan]] is selected as the new [[Emir of Mecca]] after the death from tuberculosis of [[Mas'ud ibn Idris]].

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Paramaribo]] (in modern-day [[Suriname]]) is first settled by the English. 
* The [[Deccan Famine of 1630–32]] in India begins; it will kill some two million.
* In the [[Mughal Empire]], [[Shah Jahan]]'s [[Moti Masjid (Lahore Fort)|Pearl Mosque]] at [[Lahore Fort]] is consecrated (completed 1635).
* The central square of [[Covent Garden]] in London is laid out, and a market begins to develop there.
* [[Johann Heinrich Alsted]]'s ''[[Encyclopaedia]] septem tomis distincta'' is published.
* Settlers leave [[Pannaway Plantation]] and begin to settle in [[Strawbery Banke]] which in 1653 is renamed [[Portsmouth, New Hampshire]].</onlyinclude>