This page relates to the year 1629 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

Americas

  • March 4th: Charter of the Colony of bay of Massachusetts.
  • June 12th: Colonization of the Bay of Massachusetts by the English company of the same name. Each shareholder receives 200 arpents of ground to settle.
    • John Winthrop becomes governor of the Colonie of bay of Massachusetts. It justifies its occupation of the Indian territories by the fact that the ground is juridically “vacant”. It pretexts that the Indians “did not subject” the ground, and consequently have only one “natural” right on it and not a “real” right.
  • July 16th: The English take Quebec.
    • Samuel de Champlain must yield Quebec to the brothers Thomas, Louis, and David Kirke “ because of the lack of vivres. Kirke will not have more chance: the epidemic and the food shortage hivernement take to them 14 soldiers at the time of their first ”. While Quebec is taken by the Kirke brothers, France and England already signed peace. The new English possessions will have to be restored. The England will tergiversate during three years before restoring the colony with the French.

Africa

  • Zimbabwe: The Monomotapa of the Karanga Nyambo Kapararidge, successor of Gatsi Rusere, is beaten with Massapa by the Portuguese and is replaced by Mavoura Mhandé which is declared vassal of Portugal (fine of reign in 1652).

Oceania & the Pacific

  • June 4th: Shipwreck of the Batavia, Dutch ship party of Java, failed on the west coast, whose remainders have found summers. Arrival of the first Europeans in Australia.
    • the Dutchmen, who do not find anything advantageous with their trade on the Australian continent, however explore during about thirty years the west coasts, north and south and baptize this ground Nouvelle Holland.

Asia

  • Beginning of the reign of Thalun Min, king of Burma (fine in 1648).

  • the Mandchous invade the Inner Mongolia, cross the great wall and threaten Beijing.

    • Ligdan, khan of the Tchakhar, endeavors to gather feudal the Djakhar which fear the reinforcement of its capacity more than the Manchus. When those learn that Ligdan concluded an alliance with the Ming against the Manchus, they betray it. Some of them are joined the Manchus, while others go towards north and are established in the khanat Khalkha.
    • a prince Khalkha, Tsogtou-taïdjii (prince-brilliance, 1580 - 1637), is the only one of its tribe to start the combat against the Manchus. Follower of the sect of the “red Bonnets”, it must flee of Mongolia. He is established in the area of the Koukou-NOR, where he seeks to gather the Mongolian khans. He does not succeed in joining together his forces with those of Lingdan. He dies at the time of a campaign against the Tibet in 1637.

The West Indies

  • September 21st: Died of Jan Pieterszoon Coen, governor of the Company Dutchwoman of the Eastern Indies. The Dutchmen control the whole of the seas indonésiennes. Only the ports of Banten and Makassar are opened with tradesmen not-Dutch. The Portuguese preserve Malacca under the threat of a Dutch attack.
    • Batavia is an isolated small town. Put aside the garrison of 1200 men, locked up in the citadel built at the seaside, it has there only a few hundreds of Dutchmen who live in houses of the Dutch type along the channels. The country around is gained by the jungle. The supply of the city depends on the sultan of Mataram (cattle, rice). The Chinese are numerous with Java, especially in Banten and in Batavia and the Dutchmen are obliged to concede to them a certain autonomy in the management of their business.

  • Agung, sultan of Mataram (Java) attacks Batavia twice. Overcome thanks to Dutch alliance with the sultan of Baten, he undertakes the forced Islamization of the east of Java, but fails in his attempts to conquer Bali.

  • Musa Iskandar, sultan Moslem of Atjeh (Northern point of Sumatra) attacks Malacca and founds a monopoly on the trade of pepper. It extends its influence on most of the Malayan peninsula and is the true founder of the sultanate of Atjeh.

Japan

  • October 22nd: Laws on the military households ( Buke shohattô ), written by Tokugawa Hidetada. They will be modified in 1663 to prohibit the suicides of accompaniment which transformed sometimes the death of a chief of house into true hecatomb, then definitively fixed in 1683. They define the code of honor of the Samurais. They succeed in transforming into the space of two savage generations the Bushi of formerly as honest gendarmes for humblest or as an intellectual, knowing to read, write, organize, judge…

  • December 22nd: The emperor Go-Mizunoo, son-in-law of the Shogun Hidetada, abdicates in favor of his daughter Meishō, five years old. Go-Mizunoo saw until in 1680 in its palate of Shugaku-in, to the foot of the Mont Hiei and is devoted to poetry.

The Middle East

Europe

  • January 18th: The Swedish diet ratifies the entry in war against Ferdinand II.
  • March 10th: “ Eleven years tyranny ”; Charles Ier of England returns the Parliament for a question of taxes. It stops the leaders of opposition, and controls without Parlement with the assistance of Stafford (Thomas Wenworth), of Portland cement and Laud until in 1640 (the Parliament had sat only four years since 1605).
  • March 25th: Edict of Restitution. the emperor guarantees the free exercise of the Confession of Augsburg to the laic princes, condemns the reformed religion and envisages the restitution of the goods of Church confiscated since 1552 (archbishop's palaces of Magdeburg and Bremen, 12 évêchés of which those of Verden and Halberstadt, five hundred abbeys and convents).
  • April: Seat of Wood-the-Duke.
  • May 12th - June 7th: Peace of Lübeck imposed by Wallenstein on Christian IV of Denmark which had taken the head of the German Protestants. The Denmark, thanks to the support of the England, the United Provinces and the Sweden finds its lost provinces (Jutland) but promises not to intervene more in the businesses of the empire.
  • June 27th: Battle of Stuhm . Victoire of the imperial and Polish troops ordered by Hans Georg von Arnim-Boitzenburg on the Swedish army of Gustave-Adolphe.
  • July:
    • Gustave II Adolphe of Sweden can intervene in the Empire, against the imperial policy of search for outlets in Baltique. Then in Poland, it makes an agreement with the voter of Brandebourg to obtain the unrestricted passage of its troops with Pillau and establishes a base with Rügen.
    • Alexandre the Child becomes voïévode of Moldavie (fine in 1630). With its death the June 26th 1632, the dynasty of the Basarab dies out. Its successors with the Wallachian throne at the 17th century add the name Basarab to their first name, to mark their legitimacy.
  • August 19th: Frederic-Henri, Prince d' Orange takes Wesel.
  • September 14th: Frederic-Henri de Nassau seizes Wood-the-Duke. He takes Maastricht (1632) and reconquers Breda (1637).
  • September 25th: Treated of Altmark: The Swedes occupy almost the entirety of the littoral of the Baltique. Six years truce, supported by the diplomacy of Richelieu, between the Sweden and the Poland. Poland yields the Livonie until the Dvina, the ports of Eastern Prussia (Königsberg), the products of the customs of Dantzig.
  • November 25th: Catherine de Brandebourg becomes princess of Transylvania (fine in 1630).

  • Epidemic of Plague in Spain (1629-1631).
  • Revolt antifiscale with Oporto: the campaigns ignite at the time of the lifting of a new tax.
  • Creation of the council of Flandres.
  • the exercise of the Catholicisme becomes obligatory in Bohemia.

Italy

France

  • the epidemic of “Peste” progresses in south-east. Aurillac would have lost 40% of its population between 1627 and 1629, Lyon 50%.

  • January 15th: Code Michau: Recording forced by the Parliament of a large ordinance of reformation of the kingdom due to the Minister of Justice Michel de Marillac.
  • May 17th: Sit of Privas which is taken and delivered to plundering (May 28th). Five hundred royal is killed and more of the double among the defenders, of which 50 are hung.
  • June 28th: The Peace of Ales or edict of Ale grace. It removes with the Protestants their military privileges (right to be assembled and hold of the places of safety). They preserve freedom of worship.
  • In September, with Fontainebleau, Marie de Médicis, favorable to Marillac, starts “to beat cold” Richelieu. The princesses of Bourbon, that of Lorraine and the duchess of Ornano encourage the queen mother against the cardinal.
  • November 21st: Richelieu becomes principal minister of state.
  • November 26th: Richelieu is created duke and par of France.

  • In a Opinion with the king , Richelieu proposes with Louis XIII to start a policy of hegemony in Europe.

Religion

  • Confessio fidei , profession of faith of the patriarch of Constantinople Cyrille Loukaris. Published in Geneva and strongly influenced by the Calvinism, it causes indignation.
  • Paris becomes the capital of the congregation of doctrinary the.

Art & culture

  • Antoine the Dwarf is received Master painter in the corporation of Saint-Germain-of-Meadows.
  • the No Suze forced by Louis XIII , fabric of Claude Lorrain.
  • With the Saint-Bonaventure college of Seville, Zurbarán supplements a series of paintings started with Herrera Old the of which Saint Bonaventure and the Angel , the Concile of Lyon and the Exposure of the body of saint Bonaventure .
  • '' the Removal of Sabines '', fabric of Cortone.
  • Vault of the Sorbonne, Jacques the Draper.

Sciences & technology

Economy & company

  • France: The Code Michau aims at giving the monopoly of the régnicoles traffics to the strictly French ships.
  • the Compagnie Dutchwoman of the Eastern Indies distributes 25% of dividends to its shareholders.

Births in 1629

Death in 1629

  • Barthelemy Tremblay, French sculptor.
  • Vaenius, Flemish painter (1556 -1629).

Easter Day

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