* 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 – 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 )

* La Veuve ( 1631 )

* La Galerie du Palais ( 1631 – 32 )

* 1631: Charles de la Tour builds Fort La Tour ( also known as Fort Saint Marie ) at the mouth of the Saint John River.

At Brussels, in 1631, he published, his treatise " La construction, l ' usage, et les propriétés du quadrant nouveau de mathematiques ", and dedicated it to the Infanta.

Between 1631 and 1634 he invaded Lorraine, and took La Mothe after a siege of 141 days in which Turenne first distinguished himself and La Force's grandson Jacques was killed.

* La Silvanire, ou la Morte-vive, with an elaborate preface on the observance of the unities ( 1631 )

With the support of Richelieu, he established the first weekly newspaper in France, La Gazette, in 1631.

As a result, La Tour appealed to the King of France for assistance and was appointed lieutenant-general in Acadia in 1631.

** La Veuve ( comedy ) 1631

* La Gazette, a weekly magazine published in France from 1631 to 1915

The first houses were built in the spring of 1631.

The Dutch were the first Europeans to settle in present-day Delaware in the Middle region by establishing a trading post at Zwaanendael, near the site of Lewes in 1631.

The first attestation of the word to name the Asian ape is in Jacobus Bontius ' 1631 " Historiae naturalis et medicae Indiae orientalis "-he described that Malaysians had informed him that the ape was able to talk, but preferred not to " lest he be compelled to labour ".

It was first used to treat malaria in Rome in 1631.

And secondly, on 11 December 1605, to his first wife's sister, Constance of Austria ( 1588 – 1631 ).

The advantages of Brest's situation as a seaport town were first recognized by Cardinal Richelieu, who in 1631 constructed a harbor with wooden wharves.

The land that is currently Delaware was first colonized by the Dutch West India Company in 1631 as Zwaanendael.

The couple had five children: in 1628 their first son, Constantijn Jr., in 1629 Christiaan, in 1631 Lodewijk and in 1633 Philips.

The first European settlement in the state of Delaware was founded in 1631 near the present-day town of Lewes.

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 area known as Lynn was first settled in 1629 by Edmund Ingalls ( d. 1647 ), followed by John Tarbox of Lancashire in 1631, whose descendants still reside in New England.

After the failure of the tercio system in the first Battle of Breitenfeld in 1631, the professional Spanish troops deployed at Nördlingen proved the tercio system could still contend with the deployment improvements devised by Maurice of Orange and the late Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.

Recall first appeared in Colonial America in the laws of the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1631.

On 20 February 1631 Ferdinand III married his first wife Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria.

* Spiridon Sobol, Belarusian enlightener and printer, in 1631 he published the first ABC-book in Belarus

The church of St Paul's was the first building, begun in July 1631 on the western side of the square.

The church of St Paul's was the first building, and was begun in July 1631 on the western side of the square.

The first Bosnian dictionary, a rhymed Bosnian – Turkish glossary authored by Muhamed Hevaji Uskufi, was composed in 1631.

He was also an active observational scientist, publishing the first data on the transit of Mercury in 1631.

In 1631, Gassendi became the first person to observe the transit of a planet across the Sun, viewing the transit of Mercury that Kepler had predicted.

On her death, the Soissons countship passed first to her second son, Prince Joseph-Emmanuel of Savoy-Carignano ( 1631 – 1656 ), and then to her third son, Prince Eugène-Maurice of Savoy-Carignano.

He also completed a table of logarithmic sines and tangents for the hundredth part of every degree to fourteen decimal places, with a table of natural sines to fifteen places, and the tangents and secants for the same to ten places ; all of which were printed at Gouda in 1631 and published in 1633 under the title of Trigonometria Britannica ; this work was probably a successor to his 1617 Logarithmorum Chilias Prima (" The First Thousand Logarithms "), which gave a brief account of logarithms and a long table of the first 1000 integers calculated to the 14th decimal place.

By his first wife he had nine children ( three sons and six daughters ) one of whom, Richard ( 1631 – 1695 ) was chancellor of the exchequer in William III's reign ; from two of his daughters are descended the families of Trevor Hampden and Hobart-Hampden, the descent in the male line becoming apparently extinct in 1754 in the person of John Hampden.