In the 1610s, colonist John Rolfe began to grow a sweeter variety of tobacco at Henricus, and it became a lucrative commodity in the tidewater region, driving further expansion.

The land was granted by charter to the London and Bristol Company in the 1610s and the vicinity became the location of a number of short-lived English colonies at Cuper's Cove, Bristol's Hope, and Renews and adjoined the colony of South Falkland.

Several times during the 1610s, the Gondi invited King Louis XIII to hunt in the large forests around Versailles.

The start of the price rises actually predated the large-scale influx of bullion from across the Atlantic, reflecting in part a quintupling of silver production in central Europe in 1460-1530: though this output fell by two-thirds by the 1610s, it was significant in fueling the early stages of inflation that undermined a price regime in place since the previous upsurge in silver production in 1170-1320.

In the 1610s, Middleton began his fruitful collaboration with the actor William Rowley, producing Wit at Several Weapons and A Fair Quarrel ; working alone he produced his comic masterpiece, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, in 1613.

Though Christianity was allowed to grow until the 1610s, Tokugawa Ieyasu soon began to see it as a growing threat to the stability of the Shogunate.

The first compact Georgian settlements appeared in Iran in the 1610s when Shah Abbas I relocated thousands from their historical homeland, eastern Georgian provinces of Kakheti and Kartli.

The name " Socinian " only started to be used in Holland and England as the Latin publications were circulated among early Arminians, Remonstrants, Dissenters, and early English Unitarians from the 1610s onward.

In the 1610s, Lanier was appointed as a lutenist to the King's band.

In the 1610s, the Virginia Company of London ended monopoly on land ownership.

The church, today called San Sebastiano fuori le mura, was rebuilt in the 1610s under the patronage of Scipione Borghese.

The genre was further developed by Thomas Campion ( 1567-1620 ) whose Books of Airs ( 1601 ) ( co-written with Philip Rosseter ) contains over 100 lute songs and was reprinted four times in the 1610s.

The first Dutch settlement was in the 1610s with the establishment of Fort Nassau, a trading post ( factorij ) south of modern-day Albany, with the purpose of exchanging European goods for beaver pelts.

The king wished to marry her, which was opposed by his mother, and the conflict, which lasted for several years during the 1610s, has been made famous in history.

Events from the 1610s in Canada.

The Province of New Jersey was originally settled in the 1610s as part of the colony of New Netherland.

* 1610s – Mohammadreza Isfahani builds Naghsh-i Jahan Square in Isfahan, Iran.

Exploration of the archipelago started in the 1610s as the whaling companies would send out small ships to find new areas to exploit.

Norrlands storregemente or Landsregementet i Norrland ( Norrland Grand Regiment, Regiment of the Land in Norrland ) was one of the nine grand regiments organized by Gustavus Adolphus in the late 1610s and split into smaller regiments in the 1620s.

After Valignano's death, negative reports from Japan were reflected in the policies of the headquarters of the Society of Jesus in Rome in 1610s, and the society heavily restricted admission and ordination of Japanese Catholics.

Upplands storregemente or Landsregementet i Uppland ( Uppland Grand Regiment, Regiment of the Land in Uppland ) was one of the nine grand regiments organized by Gustavus Adolphus in the late 1610s and split into smaller regiments in the 1620s.

Södermanlands storregemente or Landsregementet i Södermanland ( Södermanland Grand Regiment, Regiment of the Land in Södermanland ) was one of the nine grand regiments organized by Gustavus Adolphus in the late 1610s and split into smaller regiments in the 1620s.

Östergötlands storregemente or Landsregementet i Östergötland ( Östergötland Grand Regiment, Regiment of the Land in Östergötland ) was one of the nine grand regiments organized by Gustavus Adolphus in the late 1610s and split into smaller regiments in the 1620s.

Västergötlands storregemente or Landsregementet i Västergötland ( Västergötland Grand Regiment, Regiment of the Land in Västergötland ) was one of the nine grand regiments organized by Gustavus Adolphus in the late 1610s and split into smaller regiments in the 1620s.

Smålands storregemente or Landsregementet i Småland ( Småland Grand Regiment, Regiment of the Land in Småland ) was one of the nine grand regiments organized by Gustavus Adolphus in the late 1610s and split into smaller regiments in the 1620s.

An example from France was a flattering anagram for Cardinal Richelieu, comparing him to Hercules or at least one of his hands ( Hercules being a kingly symbol ), where " Armand de Richelieu " became " Ardue main d ' Hercule ".

Over time it became clear these privileges would be open to abuse and when in 1620 the Huguenots proclaimed a constitution for the ' Republic of the Reformed Churches of France ', the Prime Minister Cardinal Richelieu ( 1585 – 1642 ) invoked the entire powers of the state.

René Nicolas de Maupeou was appointed Chancellor of France and Minister of Justice, Joseph Marie Terray became Minister of Finance, and Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu, duc d ' Aiguillon, Minister for Foreign Affairs.

According to an account by Claude Hémeré, a friend and librarian of Cardinal Richelieu whose evidence dates as late as 1633, and who used the records of the collegiate church of Saint-Quentin, Josquin became a choirboy at Saint-Quentin, probably around 1460, and was in charge of its music.

In 1632, Isaac de Razilly became involved, at the request of Cardinal Richelieu, in the colonization of Acadia, by taking possession of the Habitation at Port-Royal ( now Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia ) and developing it into a French colony.

Under the influence of the duchesse de Chevreuse, the queen let herself be drawn into political opposition to Richelieu and became embroiled in several intrigues against his policies.

Thus, it became necessary that the younger Richelieu join the clergy.

At about this time, Richelieu became a friend of François Leclerc du Tremblay ( better known as " Père Joseph " or " Father Joseph "), a Capuchin friar, who would later become a close confidant.

He is depicted as cruel and scheming, the true power behind the throne, and also as wheelchair-bound, although at the time of the events depicted, Richelieu was not bed-ridden, as he later became.

Under Louis XIII's minister Richelieu, the independent Académie française came under state supervision and became an official organ of control over the French language and seventeenth-century literature.

Their only son, Armand de La Chapelle ( born in Paris on 21 December 1875 ), became the 8th and last Duke of Richelieu and of Fronsac and Marquis of Jumilhac on the death of his father on June 28, 1880.

It became a centre for Protestantism and its unsuccessful revolt against the crown led Cardinal Richelieu in 1632 to order that the castle and its walls should be demolished.

* In the 18th century, cantharides became fashionable, known as pastilles Richelieu in France.

Born in Paris, Desmarets was introduced to Cardinal Richelieu, and became one of the band of writers who carried out the cardinal's literary ideas when he was about thirty years old.

In this capacity he showed great independence with regard to the royal authority ; but when in 1633 he became keeper of the seals under Richelieu, he proceeded to bully and humiliate the parlement in his turn.

The dashing Maréchal de Richelieu became one of her recurring customers.

After the French government raided Jannon ’ s printing office, Cardinal Richelieu named Jannon ’ s type Caractère de l ’ Université, and it became the house style of Royal Printing Office.

Following a series of regime changes in France, it became the Imperial National Library and in 1868 was moved to newly constructed buildings on the Rue de Richelieu designed by Henri Labrouste.

Villèle resigned within a year, but on the fall of Richelieu at the end of 1821 he became the real chief of the new cabinet, in which he was minister of finance.

The personal influence of Henry IV had deterred Bassompierre from a marriage with Charlotte de Montmorency, daughter of the constable Montmorency, afterwards princesse de Condé, and between 1614 and 1630 he was secretly married to Louise Marguerite, widow of François, prince de Conti, and through her became implicated in the plot to overthrow Richelieu on the " Day of the Dupes " ( 1630 ).

During the 19th century, the Richelieu became an important economic thoroughfare.

Her early years were clouded by the execution of Henri of Montmorency, her mother's only brother, for intriguing against Richelieu in 1632, and that of her mother's cousin the Count François de Montmorency-Boutteville for duelling in 1635 ; but her parents made their peace with Richelieu, and being introduced into society in 1635 she soon became one of the stars of the Hôtel de Rambouillet, at that time the center of all that was learned, witty, and gay in France.

He became a Patriote leader in the region of the Richelieu River valley, and supported the use of arms at the Assemblée des Six-Comtés in 1837.