1629

1629 (MDCXXIX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1629th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 629th year of the 2nd millennium, the 29th year of the 17th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1620s decade. As of the start of 1629, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

1629 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1629 MDCXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2382
Armenian calendar	1078 ԹՎ ՌՀԸ
Assyrian calendar	6379
Balinese saka calendar	1550–1551
Bengali calendar	1036
Berber calendar	2579
English Regnal year	4 Cha. 1 – 5 Cha. 1
Buddhist calendar	2173
Burmese calendar	991
Byzantine calendar	7137–7138
Chinese calendar	戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 4325 or 4265     — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 4326 or 4266
Coptic calendar	1345–1346
Discordian calendar	2795
Ethiopian calendar	1621–1622
Hebrew calendar	5389–5390
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1685–1686
- Shaka Samvat	1550–1551
- Kali Yuga	4729–4730
Holocene calendar	11629
Igbo calendar	629–630
Iranian calendar	1007–1008
Islamic calendar	1038–1039
Japanese calendar	Kan'ei 6 (寛永６年)
Javanese calendar	1550–1551
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3962
Minguo calendar	283 before ROC 民前283年
Nanakshahi calendar	161
Thai solar calendar	2171–2172
Tibetan calendar	ས་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Dragon) 1755 or 1374 or 602     — to — ས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Earth-Snake) 1756 or 1375 or 603

Events

• February 11 – The Pilgrims leave England for North America to settle the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Births

• March 9 – Czar Alexis I of Russia (d. 1676)
• April 14 – Christiaan Huygens, Dutch scientist (d. 1695)