Editing 1630 (section)

=== 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]].