of Kandy leads more than 35,000 troops in killing most of an attack force led by Portuguese Ceylon governor Constantino de Sá de Noronha. September 4 – Thirty Years' War: the Treaty of Stettin is signed by Sweden and the Duchy of Pomerania, forming a close alliance between them, as well as giving Sweden full military control over Pomerania. September 7 – Governor John Winthrop passes a resolution declaring "that Trimontaine" on Shawmut peninsula shall be called Boston from now on. September 17 (September 7 Old Style) – The settlement of Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony is founded. September 24 – The first ship of de Sauce's emigrants arrive at Southampton Hundred, on the James River in Virginia. October–December October 13 – War of the Mantuan Succession: the Peace of Regensburg is signed. Charles Gonzaga is confirmed as Duke of Mantua. October 18 – Frendraught Castle in Scotland, the home of James Crichton of Frendraught, burns down. November 10 – Day of the Dupes: Marie de' Medici attempts to oust Cardinal Richelieu from the French Court, but fails after two days. December 3 – (28 Rabi II 1040 AH) Abd Allah ibn Hasan is selected as the new Emir of Mecca after the death from tuberculosis of Mas'ud ibn Idris. Date unknown Paramaribo (in modern-day Suriname) is first settled by the English. The Deccan Famine of 1630–32 in India begins; it will kill some two million. In the Mughal Empire, Shah Jahan's Pearl Mosque at Lahore Fort is consecrated (completed 1635). The central square of Covent Garden in London is laid out, and a market begins to develop there. Johann Heinrich Alsted's Encyclopaedia septem tomis distincta is published. Settlers leave Pannaway Plantation and begin to settle in Strawbery Banke which in 1653 is renamed Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Births January–March January 3 – Herbert Westfaling, English politician (d. 1705) January 5 – Manuel da Câmara III, Portuguese noble (d. 1673) January 10 – Edward Blaker, English politician (d. 1678) January 11 Charles Berkeley, 1st Earl of Falmouth, English noble, son of Charles Berkeley (d. 1665) John Rogers, English-born President of Harvard (d. 1684) January 13 – Ōta Suketsugu, Japanese daimyō (d. 1685) January 16 – Guru Har Rai, Sikh guru (d. 1661) January 18 – Andrew Balfour, Scottish doctor (d. 1694) January 20 – Philip Florinus of Sulzbach, Austrian field marshal (d. 1703) January 25 – Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1661–1678)