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Year '1629' (
MDCXXIX) was a
common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar (or a
common year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower
Julian calendar).
Events of 1629
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March 4 -
Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a
Royal charter.
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March 10 -
Charles I of England dissolves
Parliament starting the
Eleven Years Tyranny in which there was no parliament.
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June 4: The
VOC ship Batavia runs aground west of Australia.
Undated
★ End of the reign of
Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan.
★
Empress MeishÅ ascends to the throne of
Japan.
★
Fort Santo Domingo was built in
Formosa by the
Spanish settlers.
Births
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March 9 - Tsar
Alexis I of Russia (d.
1676)
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April 14 -
Christiaan Huygens, Dutch scientist (d.
1695)
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May 8 -
Niels Juel, Danish admiral (d.
1697)
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August 17 -
John III Sobieski, King of Poland (d.
1696)
★ September -
Lady Mary Dering, composer (d.
1704)
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September 9 -
Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (d.
1691)
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September 21 -
Philip Cardinal Howard, English Roman Catholic Cardinal (d.
1694)
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September 30 -
Oliver Plunkett, Irish saint (d.
1681)
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December 12 -
Simeon of Polotsk, Belarusian churchman and poet (d.
1680)
★ ''date unknown'' -
Roderick O'Flaherty, Irish chieftain and historian (d.
1718)
: ''See also .''
Deaths
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January 27 -
Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (b.
1560)
★ March -
John Guy, first Governor of Newfoundland
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March 16 -
Emilia of Nassau, daughter of
William the Silent (b.
1559)
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March 23 -
Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland (b. c. 1580)
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March 29 -
Jacob de Gheyn II, painter and engraver (b. c. 1585)
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June 18 -
Piet Pieterszoon Hein, Dutch naval officer (b.
1577)
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July 13 -
Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Swedish physician and theologian (b.
1585)
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September 21 -
Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. (b.
1587)
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October 2 -
Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and statesman (b.
1575)
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October 2 -
Antonio Cifra, Italian composer (b.
1584)
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October 3 -
Giorgi Saakadze, Georgian military commander (b.
1570)
★ November -
Hendrick ter Brugghen, Dutch painter (born c
1558)
★ ''date unknown'' -
Antonio Vassilacchi ("Il Aliense"), painter
★ ''probable'' -
Sigismondo d'India, composer
: ''See also .''