Discover

{{year nav|
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).

Contents

Events of 1629

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1629

★ March 4 - Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter.

★ March 10 - Charles I of England dissolves Parliament starting the Eleven Years Tyranny in which there was no parliament.

★ June 4: The VOC ship Batavia runs aground west of Australia.

Undated

★ End of the reign of Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan.

★ Empress Meishō ascends to the throne of Japan.

★ Fort Santo Domingo was built in Formosa by the Spanish settlers.

Births

★ March 9 - Tsar Alexis I of Russia (d. 1676)

★ April 14 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch scientist (d. 1695)

★ May 8 - Niels Juel, Danish admiral (d. 1697)

★ August 17 - John III Sobieski, King of Poland (d. 1696)

★ September - Lady Mary Dering, composer (d. 1704)

★ September 9 - Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (d. 1691)

★ September 21 - Philip Cardinal Howard, English Roman Catholic Cardinal (d. 1694)

★ September 30 - Oliver Plunkett, Irish saint (d. 1681)

★ 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

★ January 27 - Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (b. 1560)

★ March - John Guy, first Governor of Newfoundland

★ March 16 - Emilia of Nassau, daughter of William the Silent (b. 1559)

★ March 23 - Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland (b. c. 1580)

★ March 29 - Jacob de Gheyn II, painter and engraver (b. c. 1585)

★ June 18 - Piet Pieterszoon Hein, Dutch naval officer (b. 1577)

★ July 13 - Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Swedish physician and theologian (b. 1585)

★ September 21 - Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. (b. 1587)

★ October 2 - Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1575)

★ October 2 - Antonio Cifra, Italian composer (b. 1584)

★ October 3 - Giorgi Saakadze, Georgian military commander (b. 1570)

★ November - Hendrick ter Brugghen, Dutch painter (born c1558)

★ ''date unknown'' - Antonio Vassilacchi ("Il Aliense"), painter

★ ''probable'' - Sigismondo d'India, composer
: ''See also .''