Events of 1630

January - June

• February 22 - Native American Quadequine introduces popcorn to English colonists.
• March 22 - Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
• March 29 - Great Migration: The ship Arbella and three other ships leave Southampton, England with 400 passengers headed for the Massachusetts Bay Colony in America.
• June 6 - Swedish warships depart from Stockholm to Germany.
• June 26 - July 6 - Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus land in Pomerania, Germany to aid the Protestants.

July - December

• July 6 - The Success, last ship of the Winthrop Fleet, lands safely at Salem harbor, Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• July 30 - John Winthrop helps in founding a church in Massachusetts which will later become known as First Church in Boston.
• September 17 - The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.
• September 24 - The first ship of de Sauce's emigrants arrive at Southampton Hundred on the James River in Virginia.
• November 10-November 11 - Day of Dupes: Marie de' Medici unsuccessfully attempts to oust Richelieu.

Undated

• Johann Heinrich Alsted's Encyclopaedia is published.
• The first account of the Childes Tomb story is published.
• Paramaribo, Suriname is first settled by the British.
• Puritan pamphleteer Dr. Alexander Leighton publishes Zion's Plea Against Prelacy: An Appeal to Parliament, an attack on Anglican bishops, in London. He is sentenced by Archbishop William Laud's High Commission Court to public whipping, branding, and having his ears cut off.
• First year of Deccan famine in India--which will kill some 2,000,000 in 3 years.
• Thirty Years' War: Swedish intervention starts.

Births

• January 11 - John Rogers, American President of Harvard (d. 1684)
• January 25 - Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1678)
• February 19 - Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire (d. 1680)
• April 28 - Charles Cotton, English poet (d. 1687)
• May 29 - King Charles II of England Scotland, and Ireland (d. 1685)
• August 1 - Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (d. 1673)
• October 14 - Sophia of Hanover, heir to the throne of Great Britain (d. 1714)
• October - John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1694)
• November 24 - Étienne Baluze, French scholar (d. 1718)
• November 27 - Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria, regent of Tyrol and Further Austria (d. 1665)
• date unknown
• Noël Alexandre, theologian (d. 1724)
• Jacques de Coras, poet (d. 1677)
• Jan Wynants, Dutch landscape artist (d. 1684)
• probable
• John Leslie, 1st Duke of Rothes (d. 1681)
• Shivaji Maharaj - Founder of Maratha empire

See also 1630 births.

Deaths

• January 26 - Henry Briggs, English mathematician (b. 1556)
• February 12 - Fynes Moryson, English traveler and writer (b. 1566)
• February 26 - William Brade, English composer (b. 1560)
• April 29 - Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet and soldier (b. 1552)
• July 16 - Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1562)
• September 17 - Thomas Lake, English statesman (b. 1567)
• September 18 - Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal and statesman (b. 1552)
• September 20 - Claudio Saracini, Italian composer (b. 1586)
• September 25 - Ambrogio Spinola, marqués de los Balbases, Italian general (b. 1569)
• November 15 - Johannes Kepler, German astronomer (b. 1571)
• November 19 - Johann Schein, German composer (b. 1586)
• date unknown
• Gabriel Harvey, writer (b. c. 1545)
• Giulio Mancini, papal physician (b. 1558)

See also 1630 deaths.