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February 5 - Roger Williams emigrates to Boston.
May 10 - During the Thirty Years' War imperial troops storm the German city of Magdeburg and commit a massacre. About 20,000 inhabitants are killed.
May 18 - In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.
Moses Amyraut's Traite des Religions is published.
Algerine pirates sack Baltimore, County Cork in Ireland.
The bell "Emmanuel" in Notre-Dame de Paris is recast.
Year in topic
1631 in literature
1631 in science
Births
Lady Anne Finch Conway née Anne Finch, philosopher (d. 1679)
August 19 - John Dryden, poet and playwright (d. 1700)
Deaths
March 31 - John Donne, English poet and writer.
Isaac du Ryer, French poet (date approximate).
John Smith of Jamestown
Category:1631
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