1634

This article is about the year 1634. For the novel på Eric Flint, see 1634: The Galileo Affair.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1600s  1610s  1620s  – 1630s –  1640s  1650s  1660s
Years:	1631 1632 1633 – 1634 – 1635 1636 1637

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
Assyrian calendar	6384
Bahá'í calendar	-210–-209
Bengali calendar	1041
Berber calendar	2584
English Regnal year	9 Cha. 1 – 10 Cha. 1
Buddhist calendar	2178
Burmese calendar	996
Byzantine calendar	7142–7143
Chinese calendar	癸酉年十二月初二日 (4270/4330-12-2) — to — 甲戌年十一月十二日 (4271/4331-11-12)
Coptic calendar	1350–1351
Ethiopian calendar	1626–1627
Hebrew calendar	5394–5395
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1690–1691
- Shaka Samvat	1556–1557
- Kali Yuga	4735–4736
Holocene calendar	11634
Iranian calendar	1012–1013
Islamic calendar	1043–1044
Japanese calendar	Kan'ei 11 (寛永11年)
Korean calendar	3967
Minguo calendar	278 before ROC 民前278年
Thai solar calendar	2177

Year 1634 (MDCXXXIV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• February 24–February 25—Rebellious soldiers kill Albrecht von Wallenstein.
• March 1 – Battle of Smolensk: King Ladislaus IV of Poland defeats the 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.

July–December

• July 4 – The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France (later the Canadian province of Quebec).
• August 18 – Urbain Grandier, a priest accused of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France.
• September 5–September 6 – The Battle of Nördlingen results in a Catholic victory.
• October 11–October 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

• Moses Amyraut's Traite de la predestination is published.
• Curaçao is captured by the Dutch.
• The Treaty of Polianovska is defined.
• The first meeting of the Académie française occurs.
• 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, most likely in August 1634.
• Covent Garden Market opens in London.
• The German Brewery Paulaner is established.
• The English establish a settlement at Cochin (now Kochi) on the Malabar Coast.
• The first decennial performance of the Oberammergau Passion Plays is held.
• In England, Oxford University Press receives its charter and becomes the second of the privileged presses.
• In Maryland, the Jesuits Andrew White, John Altham Gravenor, and Thomas Gervase arrived with Lord Leonard Calvert on March 25, 1634, and in that year established an institution of higher learning at St. Mary's which later became known as Georgetown University, North America's oldest university.
• Suspecting that Patriarch Afonso Mendes played a part in the Portuguese assault on Mombasa, Emperor Fasilides expels him and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.

Births

• January 16 – Dorothe Engelbretsdotter, Norway's first professional female author (d. 1713)
• January 25 – Gaspar Fagel, Dutch statesman (d. 1688)
• March 18 – Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette, French novelist (d. 1693)
• April 9 – Albertine Agnes of Nassau, Regent of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe (d. 1696)
• 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)

Deaths

• February 25 – Albrecht von Wallenstein, general (assassinated) (b. 1583)
• May 12 – George Chapman, English author (b. c.1559)
• May 15 – Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (b. 1585)
• June 22 – Johann von Aldringen, Austrian field marshal (b. 1588)
• June 25 – John Marston, English dramatist (b. 1576)
• August 9 – William Noy, English jurist (b. 1577)
• August 11 – Frederick Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1591)
• August 18 – Urbain Grandier, French priest (b. 1590)
• September 3 – Edward Coke, English colonial entrepreneur and jurist (b. 1552)
• December 25 – Lettice Knollys, English noblewoman (b. 1540)
• December 29 – John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (b. 1612)
• date unknown
  • Adriano Banchieri, Italian composer (b. 1568)
  • Johan Bara, painter and engraver (b. c. 1581)
  • Wigund-Jeronym Trubecki, prince of Trubeck