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1630
 
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John Winthrop, appointed governor of the new Massachusetts Bay Company, sails from England with 700 settlers       
1630
 
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John Winthrop selects the site of Boston for the first Massachusetts settlement       
1630
 
    
John Winthrop, arriving in Massachusetts, begins the journal that is eventually published as The History Of New England       
1631
 
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Gustavus II and the Swedish army win a conclusive victory over the imperial forces at Breitenfeld      
1631
 
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Rembrandt moves from his home town of Leiden to set up a studio in Amsterdam      
c. 1631
 
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Samuel Fortrey builds a house with gables, in the Dutch style, in what is now Kew Gardens. See in Google maps   
1632
 
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The Inquisition convicts Galileo of heresy and he denies the truth of Copernicus - on being shown the instruments of torture       
1632
 
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Shah Jahan orders that all recently built Hindu temples shall be destroyed, ending the Mughal tradition of religious tolerance      
1632
 
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The Swedish army wins another convincing victory at Lützen, but Gustavus II dies leading a cavalry charge      
1632
 
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Maryland is granted to Lord Baltimore as a haven for English Roman Catholics