* 1631 – John Dryden, English poet and playwright ( d. 1700 )

Other notable 17th-century outbreaks were the Italian Plague ( 1629 – 1631 ); the Great Plague of Seville ( 1647 – 1652 ); the Great Plague of London ( 1665 – 1666 ); and the Great Plague of Vienna ( 1679 ).

* Richard Cumberland ( philosopher ) ( 1631 – 1718 ), bishop and philosopher

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* 1588 – Constance of Austria, queen of Poland ( d. 1631 )

* 1550 – Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher ( d. 1631 )

* 1631 – Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway, English philosopher ( d. 1679 )

* 1631 – François de Bassompierre, a French courtier, arrested by Richelieu's orders.

* 1631 – Roger Williams emigrates to Boston.

* 1631 – Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth.

* 1631 – The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates.

* 1701 – William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials ( b. 1631 )

* 1570 – Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician ( d. 1631 )

* 1580 – ( baptised ) John Smith of Jamestown ( d. 1631 )

* 1631 – Jens Juel, Danish diplomat ( d. 1700 )

* Arma Suecica, 1631 – 1634, in 12 parts, describing the history of the wars of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden

* 1628 – 1631: Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik II

* 1631 – In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.

* 1700 – John Dryden, English writer ( b. 1631 )

* 1631 – Publication of La Gazette, first French newspaper.

* 1631 – The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years ' War.

* 1631 – René Le Bossu, French critic ( d. 1680 )

The Capuchins founded a monastery in 1631 and started construction of the monastery church in 1636 ) and the Jesuits started missionary activity in the 17th century and established a school in 1734.

He was podkomorzy of Podolia since 1621, castellan of Kamianets-Podilskyi since 1628, voivod of Bratslav Voivodeship since 1631 and Podolia voivodeship since 1636.

* Al Walid ibn Zidan ( r. 1631 – 1636 )

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Catherine had formal custody of Christina from 1631 to 1633, and from 1636 until 1638, years later described by Christina as happy.

In the 17th century, the phrase Gott mit uns was used as a ' field word ', a means of recognition akin to a password, by the army of Gustavus Adolphus at the battles of Breitenfeld ( 1631 ), Lützen ( 1632 ) and Wittstock ( 1636 ) in the Thirty Years ' War.

His intention was to argue that humans could live a long time with little or no food ; this thesis was attacked by critics ( in particular the Portuguese doctor and professor at Pisa, S. Rodriguez de Castro ) and so Liceti published two responses, De feriis altricis animaenemeseticae disputationes in 1631 and Athos perfossus, sive Rudens eruditus in 1636.

* François Lamy ( 1636 – 1711 )

A New England Town: The First Hundred Years: Dedham, Massachusetts, 1636 – 1736 ( 2nd ed .).

* 1636 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians.

The name of a settlement was recorded after St. Adalbert's death in 997 AD as urbs Gyddanyzc and later was written as Kdanzk ( 1148 ), Gdanzc ( 1188 ), Danceke ( 1228 ), Gdansk ( 1236, 1454, 1468, 1484, 1590 ), Danzc ( 1263 ), Danczk ( 1311, 1399, 1410, 1414 – 1438 ), Danczik ( 1399, 1410, 1414 ), Danczig ( 1414 ), Gdąnsk ( 1636 ).

* 1636 – City of Providence, Rhode Island forms.

* 1636 – John Hale, American pastor during the Salem witch trials ( d. 1700 )

* Barbara Sophie ( 16 November 1584 – 13 February 1636 ), married John Frederick, Duke of Württemberg

At this time a Buddhist priest by the name of Kenjun ( 1547 – 1636 ), who lived in northern Kyūshū, began to compose for the koto, calling the style " tsukushi goto ".

* Morss, L. R., Edelstein, N. M., Fuger, J., The chemistry of the actinide and transactinide element, 3, ( 2006 ), 1630 – 1636

* 1636 – 1654: Mohammed III

* 1679 – Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria ( b. 1636 )

* 1636 – Utrecht University is founded in the Netherlands.

* 1636 – Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic ( d. 1711 )

* 1636 – Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist ( d. 1721 )

* 1636 – A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become the United States, today known as Harvard University.

* 1636 – Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria ( d. 1679 )

* 1636 – The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.

While in the Netherlands he changed his address frequently, living among other places in Dordrecht ( 1628 ), Franeker ( 1629 ), Amsterdam ( 1629 – 30 ), Leiden ( 1630 ), Amsterdam ( 1630 – 32 ), Deventer ( 1632 – 34 ), Amsterdam ( 1634 – 35 ), Utrecht ( 1635 – 36 ), Leiden ( 1636 ), Egmond ( 1636 – 38 ), Santpoort ( 1638 – 1640 ), Leiden ( 1640 – 41 ), Endegeest ( a castle near Oegstgeest ) ( 1641 – 43 ), and finally for an extended time in Egmond-Binnen ( 1643 – 49 ).