1630S

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Events and Trends

World Leaders

References

Events and Trends

★ Great Migration (Puritan)

★ 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]

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, Holy Roman Emperor (1620 - 1637).

★ Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (1637 - 1657).

★ Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, 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).

References

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