Great Migration (first) begins.

From this year until 1640, some 75,000 men, women and children, many of them religious dissenters, emigrate from England to the Colonies, some 20,000 to New England, 13,000 to Massachusetts Bay, and 1,200 to Boston. The out-migration from England ends when the British economy improves and when William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, an ardent persecutor of religious dissent, is imprisoned in 1640.