1628 - All About All

1628

Events

• March 1 - writs were issued in February 1628 by Charles I of England that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date.
• August 10 - The Swedish 64 gun sailing ship Vasa sinks on her maiden voyage in the Stockholm harbor
• September 6 - Puritans settle Salem which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• October 28 – Siege of La Rochelle ends with the surrender of the Huguenots.

• Charles I reconvenes the English Parliament and accepts the Petition of Right as a concession to gain his subsidies.
• Island of Santorini explodes.
• John Felton assassinates George Villiers, duke of Buckingham.
• William Harvey publishes his findings about blood circulation.

Births

• January 8 - François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg, French general (d. 1695)
• January 10 - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d. 1687)
• January 12 - Charles Perrault, French folklorist (d. 1703)
• March 10 - Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician (d. 1694)
• March 17 - François Girardon, French sculptor (d. 1715)
• April 23 - Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (d. 1704)
• May 17 - Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria, regent of the Tyrol (d. 1662)
• July 11 - Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (d. 1701)
• August 29 - John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)
• November 28 - John Bunyan, English writer (d. 1688)
• December 25 - Noël Coypel, French painter (d. 1707)

Deaths

• March 12 - John Bull, English composer
• March 29 - Tobias Matthew, Archbishop of York (b. 1546)
• June 8 - Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (b. 1547)
• July 13 - Robert Shirley, English adventurer
• August 6 - Johannes Junius, Mayor of Bamberg (b. 1573)
• August 23 - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (b. 1592)
• September 30 - Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English writer (b. 1554)
• October 16 - François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555)
• November 15 - Roque Gonzales, Paraguayan missionary (b. 1576)
• November 16 - Paolo Quagliati, Italian composer
• Gregor Aichinger, German composer