1630s

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EVENTS AND TRENDS

Great Migration (Puritan)

Thirty Years' War in full swing in Europe

1632 - Just a couple of months before his death in battle, Swedish king Gustav II Adolf The Great ratifies the establishment of University Of Tartu , the second university in the Swedish Empire

September 8 , 1636 - A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes Harvard College as the first college founded in the Americas .

1639 , Fort St George , the first settlement of British India , is founded at Madras . Roberts, J: "History of the World.". Penguin, 1994.

WORLD LEADERS

King Christian IV Of Denmark And Norway ( 1588 - 1648 ).

King Charles I Of England , Scotland and Ireland ( 1625 - 1649 ).

Hong Taiji , Emperor of the Qing .

King Louis XIII Of France ( 1610 - 1643 ).

Cardinal Richelieu , chief Minister of France ( 1624 - 1642 ).

Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor ( 1620 - 1637).

Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (1637 - 1657 ).

Frederick Henry, Prince Of Orange , Stadtholder of Holland , Zeeland , Utrecht , Overijssel and Gelderland ( 1625 - 1647 ).

Pope Urban VIII ( 1623 - 1644 ).

King Philip IV Of Spain ( 1621 - 1665 ).

King Gustavus Adolphus Of Sweden ( 1611 - 1632)

Queen Christina Of Sweden (1632 - 1654 ).

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