1631
EventsFebruary 5 - Roger Williams emigrates to Boston.May 10 - During the Thirty Years' War imperial troops storm the German city of Magdeburg and commit a massacre. About 20,000 inhabitants are killed.May 18 - In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.June 20 - Algerian pirates sack Baltimore, County Cork in Ireland.Moses Amyraut's Traite des Religions is published.The bell "Emmanuel" in Notre Dame de Paris is recast.
Year in topic1631 in literature1631 in science
BirthsLady Anne Finch Conway née Anne Finch, philosopher (d. 1679)August 19 - John Dryden, poet and playwright (d. 1700)
DeathsMarch 31 - John Donne, English poet and writer.Isaac du Ryer, French poet (date approximate).John Smith of Jamestown
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