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| 1628 |
| | | William Harvey publishes a short book, De Motu Cordis, proving the circulation of the blood | |
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| 1628 |
| | | The English parliament's Petition of Right emphasizes the right of the citizen to be protected from royal tyranny | |
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| c. 1628 |
| | | The Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn develops a life-long interest in self-portraiture | |
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| 1629 |
| | | After years of warfare, the truce of Altmark gives Estonia and most of Latvia to Sweden | |
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| 1629 |
| | | The sculptor and architect Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini is given the task of adding the drama of baroque to the newly completed St Peter's in Rome | |
|  | Bernini's Baldacchino in St Peter's
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| 1629 |
| | | Charles I dismisses his parliament in Westminster, and fails to summon another in the following eleven years | |
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| c. 1630 |
| | | Rival Dutch, English and French colonies are established in Guiana, the northeast coast of south America | |
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| 1630 |
| | | John Winthrop, appointed governor of the new Massachusetts Bay Company, sails from England with 700 settlers | |
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| 1630 |
| | | John Winthrop selects the site of Boston for the first Massachusetts settlement | |
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| 1630 |
| | | John Winthrop, arriving in Massachusetts, begins the journal that is eventually published as The History Of New England | |
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