Historical Events
- Mar 2 English King Charles I dissolves Parliament against opposition, imprisoning 9 members of parliament
- Mar 10 King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he recalls it 11 years later
- Mar 24 1st game law passed in American colonies, by Virginia
- Apr 14 England and France sign Peace of Susa
- May 3 French huguenot leader Duke De Rohan signs accord with Spain
- May 22 Emperor Ferdinand II & Danish King Christian IV sign Peace of Lubeck
- Jun 18 Sea battle at Dungeness: Piet Heyn beat the Dunkirkers, commerce raiders in the service of the Spanish Monarchy
- Jun 28 Peace of Alès: Rights of French huguenots limited
- Jul 10 1st non-Separatist Congregational Church in US founded (Salem, Massachusetts)
- Aug 26 Cambridge Agreement, Massachusetts Bay Company stockholders agree to emigrate
Famous People Born in 1629
- Mar 9 Tsar Alexis I of Russia [Aleksey Mikhaylovich], Tsar of Russia (1645-76), born in Moscow (d. 1676)
- Mar 19 Aleksei M Romanov, 1st Romanov tsar of Russia
- Apr 7 Juan Jose, of Austria, Spanish general/governor of Netherlands
- Apr 14 Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, astronomer (discovered Saturn's rings) and scientist (dynamics), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1695)
- Apr 23 Jan Commelin, Dutch botanist and director of Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, born in Leiden, Netherlands (d. 1692)
World Leaders in 1629
Charles I
King of England
Charles IFamous Deaths
- Jan 19 Abbas I, Shah of Persia (1588-1629), dies at 57
- Jan 27 Hieronymus Praetorius, composer, dies at 68
- Feb 13 Girolamo Giacobbi, composer, dies at 61
- Mar 16 Emilia van Nassau, daughter of Willem of Orange & Anna of Saxon, dies at 59
- Mar 29 Jacob de Gheyn II, Dutch artist (b. 1565)