1629

Four-digit number

1629 is a year in the early seventeenth century, during the reign of Charles I in England.

Like other year numbers, it functions as a noun identifying a specific point in time: The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded in 1629.

Year numbers occasionally appear as modifiers: a 1629 charter.

conflicts

Thirty Years' War

1618-1648 European religious conflict

Catholic · siege · Spanish Empire · Holy Roman Empire

culture

Baroque

Ornate artistic period

Caravaggio · tulips · painting · portraiture · Golden Age · Amsterdam · Antwerp

colonization

Massachusetts Bay

Historic colony and coastal waters

New France · Batavia · Dutch East Indies · colonists · charter · settlement · emigration · New World

figures

Charles I

Stuart king beheaded 1649

  • RubensBaroque Flemish painter
  • RembrandtSeventeenth-century Dutch painter
  • GalileoRenaissance astronomer from Italy

Johannes Kepler · René Descartes · Francis Bacon

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