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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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| 1631 |
| | | Gustavus II and the Swedish army win a conclusive victory over the imperial forces at Breitenfeld | |
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| 1631 |
| | | Rembrandt moves from his home town of Leiden to set up a studio in Amsterdam | |
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| 1632 |
| | | The Inquisition convicts Galileo of heresy and he denies the truth of Copernicus - on being shown the instruments of torture | |
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| 1632 |
| | | Shah Jahan orders that all recently built Hindu temples shall be destroyed, ending the Mughal tradition of religious tolerance | |
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| 1632 |
| | | The Swedish army wins another convincing victory at Lützen, but Gustavus II dies leading a cavalry charge | |
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| 1632 |
| | | Maryland is granted to Lord Baltimore as a haven for English Roman Catholics | |
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| 1632 |
| | | Van Dyck moves to London and becomes portrait painter to the British court and aristocracy | |
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| 1632 |
| | | Shah Jahan begins building the Taj Mahal as a memorial for his wife, Mumtaz Mahal | |
|  | Taj Mahal
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| 1633 |
| | | Williamsburg, first known as Middle Plantation, is founded in Virginia | |
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| 1633 |
| | | The four years of tulip mania in Holland provide the first example of speculative frenzy in a capitalist market | |
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| 1633 |
| | | George Herbert's only volume of poems, The Temple, is published posthumously | |
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| 1634 |
| | | A Passion play is performed for the first time at Oberammergau, in the spirit of the Counter-Reformation | |
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| 1634 |
| | | Charles I demands ship money to increase his revenue, albeit in the absence of its conventional justification - a crisis of national defence | |
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| 1634 |
| | | Rembrandt marries Saskia van Uylenburgh, who will feature in many of his paintings | |
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| 1635 |
| | | Charles I establishes Britain's Royal Mail, employing Thomas Witherings to set it up | |
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| 1636 |
| | | North America's first university is founded at Cambridge in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and soon receives a large bequest from John Harvard | |
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| 1636 |
| | | Rhode Island is founded by Roger Williams as a colony based on the principle of religious tolerance | |
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| 1636 |
| | | A painted ceiling by Rubens, celebrating the Stuart dynasty, is installed in the Banqueting House in Whitehall | |
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| 1636 |
| | | John Hampden refuses to pay ship money to Charles I, beginning a campaign that gradually wins wide support | |
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