Decades: 1570s 1580s 1590s 1600s 1610s - 1620s - 1630s - 1640s 1650s 1660s 1670s
Years: 1624 1625 1626 1627 1628 - 1629 - 1630 1631 1632 1633 1634
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 Year in topic 1629 in literature 1629 in scinece Births March 9 - Tsar Aleksey I of Russia April 14 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch scientist August 17 - John III Sobieski, king of Poland Deaths Abbas I, Shah of Persia (possibly deceased in 1628).
