1629

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

* March 4 - Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal Charter.
* March 6 - Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor issues the Edict of Restitution, under which all Catholic properties lost to Protestantism since 1552 are to be restored and only Catholics and Lutherans (not Calvinists, Hussites or other sects) are to be allowed to practice their faith.
* March 10 - Charles I of England dissolves Parliament, starting the Eleven Years' Tyranny in which there is no parliament.
* June 4: The VOC ship "Batavia" runs aground west of Australia.

July - December

* November 8 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan abdicates the throne in favour of his daughter, who becomes Empress Meishō.

Undated

* Fort Santo Domingo is built in Formosa by the Spanish settlers.
* Chongzhen, the Chinese emperor of the Ming Dynasty, reiterates the state prohibition against female infanticide, while the empire and the Chinese economy begins to crumble. In the same year, a third of the courier stations are closed down due to lack of government funds to sustain them.
* The rule of Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba ends.
* Actresses are banned in Japan.
* Two exiled Dutch murderers from the Batavia become the first Europeans to settle in Australia, on the west coast. Their subsequent fate is unknown. [Geoffrey Blainey, "The Tyranny of Distance", Melbourne: Sun Books, 1966, ISBN 0-7251-0019-2, p.5]

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 4 - Sir George Acheson, 3rd Baronet, Irish nobleman (d. 1685)
* August 17 - King John III Sobieski of Poland (d. 1696)
* September - Lady Mary Dering, composer (d. 1704)
* September 4 - Lorenzo Pasinelli, Italian painter (d. 1700)
* 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"
**Katherine Austen, diarist and poet (d. c. 1683)
**Don John of Austria the Younger, soldier (d. 1679)
**Roderick O'Flaherty, Irish chieftain and historian (d. 1718)

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 (b. c. 1558)
*"date unknown" - Antonio Vassilacchi ("Il Aliense"), painter
* Abbas I of Persia
*"probable" - Sigismondo d'India, composer

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