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Years: 1627 1628 1629 - 1630 - 1631 1632 1633
Decades: 1600s 1610s 1620s - 1630s - 1640s 1650s 1660s
Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century Template:C17YearInTopic

Events

February 22 - Native American Quadequine introduces Popcorn to English colonists.
March 22 - Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
June 6 - Swedish warships depart from Stockholm to Germany.
June 26 - July 6 - Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus land in Pomerania, Germany to aid Protestants.
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-November 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.
Puritan pamphleteer Dr. Alexander Leighton publishes "Zion's Plea Against Prelacy: An Appeal to Parliament", an attack on Anglican bishops, in London. He was sentenced by Archbishop William Laud's High Commission Court to public whipping, branding,and having his ears cut off.

January 11 - John Rogers, American President of Harvard (d. 1684)
February 19 - Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire (d. 1680)
April 28 - Charles Cotton, English poet (d. 1687)
May 29 - King Charles II of England Scotland, and Ireland (d. 1685)
August 1 - Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (d. 1673)
October 14 - Sophia of Hanover, heir to the throne of Great Britain (d. 1714)
October - John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1694)
November 24 - Etienne Baluze, French scholar (d. 1718)
November 27 - Sigismund Francis of Austria, regent of Tyrol and Further Austria (d. 1665)