- 1634
: "For the "1634" novels co-authored by
Eric Flint , see1632 series ." Year 1634 (MDCXXXIV) was acommon year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of theGregorian calendar (or acommon year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slowerJulian calendar ).Events of 1634
January – June
*February 24 –February 25 — Rebellious soldiers killAlbrecht von Wallenstein .
*March 1 — Battle of Smolensk: KingLadislaus IV of Poland defeats the Russian army.
*March 25 — The first settlers arrive inSt. Mary's City, Maryland (led byLord Baltimore ), the fourth permanent settlement in British North America.July – December
*July 4 — The city ofTrois-Rivières is founded inNew France (later the Canadian province ofQuebec ).
*August 18 —Urbain Grandier , a priest accused of sorcery, is burned alive inLoudun , France.
*September 5 andSeptember 6 — The Battle of Nördlingen results in a Catholic victory.
*October 11 –12 — TheBurchardi flood (also known as the second Grote Mandrenke) strikes the North Sea coast of Germany and Denmark, causing 8–12,000 deaths.Undated
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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 lands atGreen Bay, Wisconsin in the summer, dressed in traditional Chinese robes, since he thinks thatLake Michigan is really thePacific Ocean , leading to theMing Dynasty ofChina .
*Covent Garden Market opens in London.
* The English establish a settlement at Cochin (now Kochi) on theMalabar coast.
* The first decennial performance of theOberammergau Passion Play s is held.
* InEngland ,Oxford University Press receives its charter and becomes the second of theprivileged presses .
* InMaryland , theJesuit s 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 atSt. Mary's which later became known asGeorgetown University ,North America 's oldest university.Births
*January 16 —Dorothe Engelbretsdotter , Norway's first 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 )"See also ."
Deaths
*February 25 —Albrecht von Wallenstein , Austrian 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: "See also ."
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