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Events. 1630. January–March. January 2 – A shoemaker in Turin is found to have the first case of bubonic plague there as the plague of 1630 begins spreading through Italy. January 5 – A team of Portuguese military advisers to China's Ming dynasty government arrive at Zhuozhou.
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May 4: Dutch colonist and politician Peter Minuit (1580–1585) arrives for his second visit at the mouth of the Hudson River in New Netherland. September: Minuit buys Manhattan from Indigenous peoples for items worth approximately $24 (60 guilders: although the amount isn't added to the story until 1846). He then names the island New Amsterdam.
Plymouth Colony and New Amsterdam begin trading. Sir Edwin Sandys (1561–1629) sends a shipload of approximately 1,500 kidnapped children from England to the Virginia colony; it is one of several problematic programs used by Sandys and others wherein unemployed, vagrants, and other undesirable multitudes were sent to the New World to offset horrifyi...
June 20: A group of settlers led by John Endecott settles at Salem. This is the beginning of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Collegiate School, the first independent school in America, is established by the Dutch West India School and the Dutch Reformed Church in New Amsterdam.
March 18: King Charles I signs a royal charter establishing the Massachusetts Bay. The Dutch West India Companybegins to give land grants to patrons who will bring at least 50 settlers to the colonies. October 20:John Winthrop (1588–1649) is elected the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. October 30: King Charles I grants Sir Robert Heath a t...
April 8: The Winthrop Fleet, 11 ships with over 800 English colonists led by John Winthrop, leave England to settle in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This is the first great wave of immigration from England. After he arrives, Winthrop begins writing the notebooks of his life and experiences in the colony, part of which will be published as the Histo...
May: Despite the Massachusetts Bay Colony charter, it is decided that only church members are allowed to become freemen who are allowed to vote for colony officials.
In the Massachusetts Bay Colony issues such as no taxation without representation and representative government are beginning to be addressed. King Charles I grants George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore, a royal charter to found the Maryland Colony. Since Baltimore is Roman Catholic, the right to religious freedom is granted to Maryland.
October 8: The first town government is organized in the city of Dorchester within the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
April 23: The Boston Latin School, the first public school in what would become the United States, is established in Boston, Massachusetts. April 23: A naval battle occurs between Virginia and Maryland, one of several confrontations over boundary disputes between the two colonies. April 25: The Council for New England revokes the charter for the Ma...
The Town Act is passed in the Massachusetts Bay general court giving towns the ability to govern themselves to some extent, including the power to allocate land and take care of local business. Thomas Hooker (1586–1647) arrives in Hartford, Connecticut, and founds the first church of the territory. June: Roger Williams (1603–1683) founds the presen...
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Apr 20, 2013 · Civil disorder in England in the 1630s - Ian Brooke. A snapshot from history showing that the spirit of direct action and mass civil disobedience is very much part of the fabric of English history. Submitted by Glimmer on April 20, 2013. Disorder.
Events. 1630. 8 April – Winthrop Fleet: The ship Arbella and three others set sail from the Solent with 400 passengers under the leadership of John Winthrop headed for the Massachusetts Bay Colony in America as part of the Puritan migration to New England (1620–1640); seven more, with another 300 aboard, follow in the next few weeks.
In the late 1620s and early 1630s, Prynne had authored a number of works denouncing the spread of both Arminianism and Anglo-Catholicism in the Church of England, and was also opposed to King Charles' marriage to a Catholic princess. Prynne became a vocal critic of the lax morals at court.
Feb 9, 2010 · The settlement of Maryland. The first colonists to Maryland arrive at St. Clement’s Island on Maryland’s western shore and found the settlement of St. Mary’s. In 1632, King Charles I of ...
May 6, 2024 · Charles I (born November 19, 1600, Dunfermline Palace, Fife, Scotland—died January 30, 1649, London, England) was the king of Great Britain and Ireland (1625–49), whose authoritarian rule and quarrels with Parliament provoked a civil war that led to his execution. Charles was the second surviving son of James VI of Scotland and Anne of Denmark.
