1630s

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]

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).