* 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

# Francesco Maria II della Rovere ( 1549 – 1631 )-duchy abolished, title continued

* 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 – 1636: El-Oualid

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

His great-great-great-grandfather Cornelis Maessen van Buren had come to the New World in 1631 from the small city of Buren, Dutch Republic, in present day Netherlands.

The city is also well known for the 1631 Sack of Magdeburg, which hardened Protestant resistance during the Thirty Years ' War.

In 1631, during the Thirty Years ' War, imperial troops under Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, stormed the city and committed a massacre, killing about 20, 000 inhabitants and burning the town in the sack of Magdeburg.

In 1630 – 1631, the city suffered a high mortality rate from an outbreak of the plague.

The first reference to the city is believed to be in Colonial records of a land grant to Christopher Calthorpe in 1631 by a court in what became the former Elizabeth City County ( which consolidated with the Town of Phoebus and the City of Hampton in 1952, assuming the latter's name, and becoming a single large independent city ).

The city was the setting for George I Rákóczi's election as Prince of Transylvania and King of Hungary in 1631.

The city was incorporated in 1631 as Saugus, the Nipmuck name for the area.

The city of Brandon gets its name from the Blue Hills south of the city, which got their name from a Hudson's Bay trading post known as Brandon House, which got its name from a hill on an island in James Bay where Captain James had anchored his ship in 1631.

Following Magdeburg, Johann Tserclaes engaged Gustavus Adolphus at the Battle of Breitenfeld on 17 September 1631, near the city of Leipzig, which Tserclaes had reached by laying waste to Saxony.

The Battle of Breitenfeld (; ) or First Battle of Breitenfeld ( sometimes First Breitenfeld and in older texts Battle of Leipzig ), was fought at the crossroads villages of Breitenfeld, Podelwitz, and Seehausen, approximately five miles northwest of the walled city of Leipzig on September 17 ( new style, or Gregorian dating ), or September 7 ( by the older Julian calendar, in wide use at the time ), 1631.

In December of that year Ueno Hill became the property of the city of Tokyo, other than for the surviving temple buildings which include the five-storey pagoda of 1639, the Kiyomizu Kannondō ( or Shimizudō ) of 1631, and approximately coeval main gate ( all ICPs ).

In spite of his activity in Rome, Domenichino decided to leave the city in 1631 to take up the most prestigious, and very lucrative, commission in Naples, the decoration of the Cappella del Tesoro di San Gennaro of the Naples Cathedral.

Storming a fortified city could result in massive casualties and cities which did not surrender before an assault were usually brutally sacked-for example Magdeburg in 1631 or Drogheda in 1649.

The family survived through the years of both peace and turmoil, changing their surname to Tarbox upon the fall of Norman England, and migrating to the British colonies in 1631, incorporating the city of Lynn, Massachusetts

In 1631 the 30 years war hit the city and region hard and the Swedish invaders took the city.

From 1631 to 1685 the city flourished as the seat of the Lithuanian diet.

The city was destroyed in the Vesuvius eruption of 79 AD and in 1631.

Disturbances in Bohemia due to the Thirty Years War brought an end to the special devotions, and on November 15, 1631, the army of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden took possession of the churches of Bohemia's capital city.

Von Guericke was personally distrustful of the city's enthusiasm for the cause of Gustavus Adolphus but was nonetheless a victim of the fall of Magdeburg to von Tilly's troops in May 1631.

* Roman Catholic troops of Imperial Field Marschal Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly committed the Sack of Magdeburg in 1631.

* 1631 Sack of Magdeburg

In 1631, during the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 1648 ) Magdeburg was raided, and only a small group of 4000 citizens survived the murdering, raping, and looting ( known as the sack of Magdeburg ) by seeking refuge in the cathedral.

Magdeburg 1631

Magdeburg 1631

* Prince-Archbishopric of Magdeburg, Lutheran administrators between 1566 and 1631 and again since 1638, secularised as hereditary Duchy of Magdeburg in 1680