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World History Timeline - 1630
The arrival of 2,000 new colonists in the Massachusetts Bay leads to the founding of Boston and Mystic; the next decade will see a "great migration" that brings almost 16,000 more people to the colony.
The decline of Venice is exacerbated by the appearance of the bubonic plague, which kills almost 500,000 people.
Classical playwright Pierre Corneille of France pens The False Letters.
A decrease in sugar prices in Paris leads to new drink concoctions, such as lemonade.
The well-known soy sauce company Kikkoman starts near Edo, Japan.
English poet John Milton writes "On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three"; playwright John Ford writes 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, and John Shirley pens the plays The Traitor and Love's Cruelty.
Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei is threatened with torture if he refuses to withdraw his heretical propositions supporting a sun-centered solar system; Galileo recants.
Hartford, Connecticut, is founded in North America by the Dutch.
Tulip bulbs imported from Turkey become a fashionable (and often costly) collectable in the Netherlands.
To prevent the Japanese feudal lords from becoming too powerful, the Tokugawa shogun Iemitsu implements an order that requires each lord to visit the capital Edo every other year; he closes the ports to foreigners and orders the expulsion of Christian missionaries, causing friction with the growing population of Christianized peasants.
Parisian doctor Theophrase Renaudot opens the first welfare medical clinic.
To prevent the bastardization of the French language, the Academie Francais is established to preserve proper grammar and word usage.
French playwright Pierre Corneille writes Medea and Le Cid.
Harvard College in Massachusetts has its origins in the founding of a seminary.
The Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II dies and is succeeded by his son Ferdinand III.
French philosopher Rene Descartes coins the phrase, "I think, therefore I am" as a demonstration that knowledge arises from systematic doubt.
Honeybees are brought by colonists to North America, where they begin to breed naturally.
The mutual ongoing violence between the colonists and Native Americans leads to the death of 600 members of the Massachusetts Bay Colony are killed in a raid by the Pequot tribe.
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