WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO AUGUST 1631
Find out what all happened February to August 1631

Roger Williams emigrates to Boston. (5. February 1631)

Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, will spend the next 17 years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal. (17. June 1631)

Publication of La Gazette, the first French newspaper. (30. May 1631)

In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts. (18. May 1631)

François de Bassompierre, a French courtier, is arrested on Richelieu's orders. (25. February 1631)

The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates. (20. June 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. (20. May 1631)

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