1634

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This article is about the year 1634. For the novels by Eric Flint, see 1632 series.
Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
  • 16th century
  • 17th century
  • 18th century
Decades:
Years:
  • 1631
  • 1632
  • 1633
  • 1634
  • 1635
  • 1636
  • 1637
1634 by topic
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  • Works
1634 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1634
MDCXXXIV
Ab urbe condita2387
Armenian calendar1083
ԹՎ ՌՁԳ
Assyrian calendar6384
Balinese saka calendar1555–1556
Bengali calendar1041
Berber calendar2584
English Regnal year9 Cha. 1 – 10 Cha. 1
Buddhist calendar2178
Burmese calendar996
Byzantine calendar7142–7143
Chinese calendar癸酉年 (Water Rooster)
4330 or 4270
    — to —
甲戌年 (Wood Dog)
4331 or 4271
Coptic calendar1350–1351
Discordian calendar2800
Ethiopian calendar1626–1627
Hebrew calendar5394–5395
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1690–1691
 - Shaka Samvat1555–1556
 - Kali Yuga4734–4735
Holocene calendar11634
Igbo calendar634–635
Iranian calendar1012–1013
Islamic calendar1043–1044
Japanese calendarKan'ei 11
(寛永１１年)
Javanese calendar1555–1556
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3967
Minguo calendar278 before ROC
民前278年
Nanakshahi calendar166
Thai solar calendar2176–2177
Tibetan calendar阴水鸡年
(female Water-Rooster)
1760 or 1379 or 607
    — to —
阳木狗年
(male Wood-Dog)
1761 or 1380 or 608
February 25: Assassination of Albrecht von Wallenstein
September 6: Battle of Nördlingen (1634)

1634 (MDCXXXIV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1634th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 634th year of the 2nd millennium, the 34th year of the 17th century, and the 5th year of the 1630s decade. As of the start of 1634, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events[]

January–June[]

  • February 24–25 – Rebel Scots and Irish soldiers kill Bohemian military leader Albrecht von Wallenstein at Cheb.
  • March – Belgian scientist Jan Baptist van Helmont is interrogated by the Spanish Inquisition and put on house arrest for his experiments into plant growth.
  • March 1 – The Russians vacate their camp, ending the Siege of Smolensk.[1]
  • March 25 – Leonard Calvert arrives in Maryland, with Jesuit missionaries Andrew White, John Altham Gravenor, and Thomas Gervase, establishing St. Mary's as the fourth permanent settlement in British North America. In this year they also establish an institution of higher learning there, which later becomes Georgetown University, North America's oldest university.
  • June 14 – The Treaty of Polyanovka is signed between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Tsardom of Russia, concluding the Smolensk War.

July–December[]

  • July 4 – The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France (the modern-day Canadian province of Quebec).
  • August (prob.) – Jean Nicolet becomes the first European to set foot in Wisconsin. He is in search of a water-route to the Pacific, when he lands at Green Bay (Lake Michigan).
  • August 18 – Urbain Grandier, accused of wizardry, is burned alive in Loudun, France.
  • September 5–6 – The Battle of Nördlingen results in a decisive victory for the Army of the Holy Roman Empire and Habsburg Spain.[2]
  • September 12 – A gunpowder factory explodes in Valletta, Malta, killing 22 people and damaging several buildings.
  • October 11–12 – The Burchardi flood (also known as the second Grote Mandrenke) strikes the North Sea coast of Germany and Denmark, causing 8,000–12,000 deaths.
  • November 11 – The Irish House of Commons passes an Act for the Punishment of the Vice of Buggery.

Date unknown[]

  • Curaçao is captured by the Dutch.
  • The English establish a settlement at Cochin (modern-day Kochi) on the Malabar Coast.
  • Suspecting that Patriarch Afonso Mendes played a part in the Portuguese assault on Mombasa, Emperor Fasilides expels him and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.
  • The Académie Française is formed by Cardinal Richelieu (it will be formally established in 1635).
  • The first performance of the Oberammergau Passion Play is held in Bavaria.
  • Moses Amyraut's Traité de la predestination is published.
  • The Paulaner Brewery is established in Munich, by Minim friars.

Births[]

George Bull
Countess Albertine Agnes of Nassau
Johannes Camphuys
Luca Giordano

January–March[]

April–June[]

July–September[]

October–December[]

Deaths[]

Albrecht von Wallenstein
Hendrick Avercamp

References[]

  1. ^ Black, Jeremy (2002). European warfare, 1494-1660. London New York: Routledge. p. 137. ISBN 9781134477098.
  2. ^ Asbach, Olaf (2016). The Ashgate research companion to the Thirty Years' War. London New York: Routledge. p. 291. ISBN 9781317041351.
  3. ^ Fayette, La (1999). The princesse de Clèves ; The princesse de Montpensier ; The comtesse de Tende. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. p. xxxvi. ISBN 9780192837264.
  4. ^ Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge. W. & R. Chambers. 1926. p. 505.
  5. ^ Bissell, R (2005). Masters of Italian Baroque painting : the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, in association with D Giles Ltd., London. p. 98. ISBN 9781904832058.
  6. ^ O. Classe (2000). Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. p. 261.
  7. ^ Luijten, Ger (1993). Dawn of the golden age : northern Netherlandish art, 1580-1620. Amsterdam Zwolle New Haven: Rijksmuseum Waanders Yale University Press distributor. p. 299. ISBN 9780300060164.
  8. ^ Fritze, Ronald (1996). Historical dictionary of Stuart England, 1603-1689. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 109. ISBN 9780313283918.
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