1629

Years: 1626 1627 1628 - 1629 - 1630 1631 1632

Decades: 1590s 1600s 1610s - 1620s - 1630s 1640s 1650s

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1629 in various calendars Gregorian calendar 1629 MDCXXIX Ab urbe condita 2382 Armenian calendar 1078 ԹՎ ՌՀԸ Assyrian calendar 6379 Balinese saka calendar 1550–1551 Bengali calendar 1035–1036 Berber calendar 2579 English Regnal year 4 Cha. 1 – 5 Cha. 1 Buddhist calendar 2173 Burmese calendar 991 Byzantine calendar 7137–7138 Chinese calendar 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 4326 or 4119     — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 4327 or 4120 Coptic calendar 1345–1346 Discordian calendar 2795 Ethiopian calendar 1621–1622 Hebrew calendar 5389–5390 Hindu calendars  - Vikram Samvat 1685–1686  - Shaka Samvat 1550–1551  - Kali Yuga 4729–4730 Holocene calendar 11629 Igbo calendar 629–630 Iranian calendar 1007–1008 Islamic calendar 1038–1039 Japanese calendar Kan'ei 6 (寛永６年) Javanese calendar 1550–1551 Julian calendar Gregorian minus 10 days Korean calendar 3962 Minguo calendar 283 before ROC 民前283年 Nanakshahi calendar 161 Thai solar calendar 2171–2172 Tibetan calendar ས་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Dragon) 1755 or 1374 or 602     — to — ས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Earth-Snake) 1756 or 1375 or 603

Events

• March 4 - Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter.
• June 4: The VOC ship Batavia runs aground west of Australia.
• March 10 - Charles I of England dissolves Parliament starting the Eleven Years Tyranny in which there was no parliament.
• End of the reign of Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan
• Empress Meisho ascends to the throne of Japan

Births

• March 9 - Tsar Aleksey I of Russia (d. 1676)
• April 14 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch scientist (d. 1695)
• May 8 - Niels Juel, Danish admiral (d. 1697)
• August 17 - John III Sobieski, King of Poland (d. 1696)
• 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)
• Roderick O Flaherty, Irish chieftan and historian (d. 1718)

Deaths

• June 18 - Piet Pieterszoon Hein, Dutch naval officer (b. 1577)
• July 13 - Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Swedish physician and theologian (b. 1585)
• 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)