1634

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Years: 1631 1632 1633 - 1634 - 1635 1636 1637

Decades: 1600s 1610s 1620s - 1630s - 1640s 1650s 1660s

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1634 by topic: Arts and Science Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science Lists of leaders Colonial governors - State leaders Birth and death categories Births - Deaths Establishments and disestablishments categories Establishments - Disestablishments Works category Works 1634 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 1634 MDCXXXIV Ab urbe condita 2387 Armenian calendar 1083 ԹՎ ՌՁԳ Chinese calendar 4270/4330-12-2 (癸酉年十二月初二日) — to — 4271/4331-11-12 (甲戌年十一月十二日) Ethiopian calendar 1626 – 1627 Hebrew calendar 5394 – 5395 Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat 1689 – 1690 - Shaka Samvat 1556 – 1557 - Kali Yuga 4735 – 4736 Iranian calendar 1012 – 1013 Islamic calendar 1044 – 1045 Japanese calendar Kan'ei 11 (寛永11年) - Imperial Year Kōki 2294 (皇紀2294年) - Jōmon Era 11634 Thai solar calendar 2177

1634 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

[edit] Events

• February 24-February 25 - Rebellious soldiers kill Albrecht von Wallenstein
• March 1 - Battle at Smolensk, King Ladislaus IV of Poland defeats Russian army.
• March 25 - The first settlers arrive in St. Mary's City, Maryland (led by Lord Baltimore), the fourth permanent settlement in British North America.
• August 18 - Urbain Grandier, a priest accused of sorcery, burned alive in Loudun, France.
• September 5 and September 6 - Battle of Nördlingen (1634) results in Catholic victory

• Moses Amyraut's Traite de la predestination is published
• Curaçao captured by the Dutch
• Treaty of Polianovska
• First meeting of the Académie française
• Jean Nicolet lands at Green Bay, Wisconsin
• Opening of Covent Garden Market in London
• English establish a settlement at Cochin, now Kochi on Malabar coast
• First decennial performance of the Oberammergau Passion Plays
• Oxford University Press receives its charter and becomes the second of the privileged presses

[edit] Births

• January 25 - Gaspar Fagel, Dutch statesman (d. 1688)
• March 18 - Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette, French novelist (d. 1693)
• June 20 - Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy (d. 1675)
• July 14 - Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (d. 1719)
• July 18 - Johannes Camphuys, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1695)
• October 18 - Luca Giordano, Italian artist (d. 1705)
• December 15 - Thomas Kingo, Danish poet (d. 1703)
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (d. 1704)

See also Category:1634 births.

[edit] Deaths

• February 25 - Albrecht von Wallenstein, Austrian general (assassinated) (b. 1583)
• May 12 - George Chapman, English author (born c.1559)
• May 15 - Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (b. 1585)
• June 22 - Johann Graf von Aldringen, Austrian soldier (b. 1588)
• June 25 - John Marston, English dramatist (b. 1576)
• August 9 - William Noy, English jurist (b. 1577)
• August 18 - Urbain Grandier, French priest (b. 1590)
• September 3 - Edward Coke, English colonial entrepreneur and jurist (b. 1552)
• December 29 - John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (b. 1612)
• Adriano Banchieri, Italian composer (b. 1568)

See also Category:1634 deaths.