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The 1630s: 1630–1639
1630–1639 · worldwide, all places
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Sweden's Gustavus Adolphus landed in Germany in 1630 and turned the Thirty Years' War Protestant before dying at Lutzen in 1632. In New England, Puritan towns fined, whipped and watched their neighbors for signs of the devil, and in Agra, Shah Jahan started building the Taj Mahal in 1632.
Lutzen in 1632 and the witch scares of Puritan villages belong to the same decade of fear. The film The Witch isolates one New England family in that fear, and Deborah Moggach's Tulip Fever spends 1630s Amsterdam in the grip of the bulb craze. Open the 1630s on the StoryTerra map and explore its stories by place.
9 famous stories set in the 1630s
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Browse 7 books and 3 movies set in the 1630s (1630–1639).
The Witch
In 1630 a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting each family member's faith loyalty and love are tested…
Code of the Samurai: A Modern Translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu of Taira Shigesuke
Learn the ways of the Japanese Bushido Code with this very readable, modern translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu.Code of the Samurai is a four-hundred-year-old explication of the rules and expectations embodied in…
The Showdown
In the 11th year of Kwang Hae-gun Jo-seon soldiers go to war with China after an invasion. In the middle of Manchu three people who have barely survived are being cornered by the Chinese forces and begin a bloody battle…
1634 The Baltic War
The Baltic War which began in the novel 1633 is still raging, and the time-lost Americans of Grantville - the West Virginia town hurled back into the seventeenth century by a mysterious cosmic accident - are caught in…
Maksym Osa: The Gold of Werewolf
Ukraine - 1636. Someone has attacked a battalion of cossacks that were transporting the gold of the Polish king. A cossack - Maksym Osa - tries to find the missing gold but soon becomes one of the main suspects.
Tulip Fever
A tale of art, beauty, lust, greed, deception and retribution -- set in a refined society ablaze with tulip fever.In 1630s Amsterdam, tulipomania has seized the populace. Everywhere men are seduced by the fantastic…
The Devils of Loudun
In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an entire convent of nuns in…
1636: The Saxon Uprising
The West Virginia town of Grantville, torn from the twentieth century and hurled back into seventeenth century Europe has allied with Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, in the United States of Europe. So, when Gustavus…
De amulet
Op het Domplein in Würzburg wachten honderden mensen opgewonden op de heks die zometeen op de brandstapel zal worden gezet. Ook de dertienjarige Nina kijkt toe. Ze rilt. Niet alleen van de kou; het hele tafereel vervult…
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