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The first General Court is held in Boston

Boston () is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It serves as a cultural and financial center of New England, a region of the Northeastern United States.

Boston () is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It serves as a cultural and financial center of New England, a region of the Northeastern United States. Boston has an area of 48.4 sq mi (125 km2) and a population of 675,647 as of the 2020 census, making it the third-most populous city in the Northeastern United States after New York City and Philadelphia. The larger Greater Boston metropolitan statistical area had a population of 4.9 million in 2023, making it the largest metropolitan area in New England and the eleventh-largest in the United States.

Boston was founded on Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by English Puritan settlers, who named the city after the market town of Boston, Lincolnshire in England.

Historical Significance

Boston () is the capital and most populous city of the U.

Events Before

  1. First game law is passed in the American colonies by Virginia

    First game law is passed in the American colonies by Virginia

  2. England and France sign Peace of Susa

    England and France sign Peace of Susa

  3. French huguenot leader Duke De Rohan signs accord with Spain

    French huguenot leader Duke De Rohan signs accord with Spain

  4. Dutch East India ship Batavia wrecks on Morning Reef off the Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia, with 200 survivors (on

    Dutch East India ship Batavia wrecks on Morning Reef off the Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia, with 200 survivors (only 70 survive after three months due to mutiny and murders) [1]

  5. Peace of Alès: Rights of French huguenots limited

    Peace of Alès: Rights of French huguenots limited

Events After

  1. Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spends more than 20 years building h

    Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spends more than 20 years building her tomb, the Taj Mahal

  2. France and Sweden sign the anti-German Treaty of Bärwalde

    The Treaty of Fontainebleau (German: Vertrag von Fontainebleau) was signed on 30 May 1631 during the Thirty Years' War, at the Palace of Fontainebleau.

  3. Earl Johann Tilly attacks Maagdenburg

    Earl Johann Tilly attacks Maagdenburg

  4. English colony Massachusetts Bay grants Puritan voting right

    The Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628–1691), more formally the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, was an English settlement on the east coast of North America around Massachusetts Bay, one of the several...

  5. Magdeburg in Germany seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire under earl Johann Tilly, most inhabitants massacred, one

    Magdeburg in Germany seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire under earl Johann Tilly, most inhabitants massacred, one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War

More from the 1630s

Italian composer Pier Cavalli marries rich widow Maria Sosomeno

Italian composer Pier Cavalli marries rich widow Maria Sosomeno

Dutch countess Louise of Solms marries earl John of Brederode

Dutch countess Louise of Solms marries earl John of Brederode

Galileo Galilei's book "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" is published comparing the Copernican and Ptole

Galileo Galilei's book "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" is published comparing the Copernican and Ptolemaic systems and whether the Earth orbits the sun

Mughal Prince and future Emperor Aurangzeb (18) marries his first wife and chief consort Persian princess Dilras Banu Be

Mughal Prince and future Emperor Aurangzeb (18) marries his first wife and chief consort Persian princess Dilras Banu Begum (15) at Agra, India

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