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Eric Flint , see ." Year 1635 (MDCXXXV) was acommon year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of theGregorian calendar (or acommon year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slowerJulian calendar ).Events of 1635
January – June
*February 10 — The "Académie française " inParis is expanded to become a national academy for the artistic elite.
*April 13 —Maronite warlord Fah-al-Din II is executed inConstantinople .
*May - France declares war onSpain .
*May 30 —Thirty Years' War - ThePeace of Prague (1635) is signed.July – December
*August 25 — TheGreat Colonial Hurricane of 1635 strikesNarragansett Bay as a possibleCategory 3 hurricane , killing over 46 people.
*September 12 - TheTreaty of Sztumska Wieś is signed betweenSweden and thePolish-Lithuanian Commonwealth .
*October 9 —Rhode Island founder Roger Williams is banished fromMassachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident, after speaking out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land.
*November 15 —Thomas Parr , dead at the alleged age of 152, is buried inWestminster Abbey .Undated
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Guadeloupe andMartinique are colonized byFrance .
*Dominica is claimed by France.
* The Ottomans are expelled fromYemen .
* Nagyszombat University (predecessor ofBudapest University ) is established.
*Boston Latin School , the oldest school in the United States of America, is founded inBoston, Massachusetts .
*Japan forbids merchants to travel abroad under penalty of death.
* A Japanese imperial memorandum decrees: "Hereafter entry by the Portuguese galeota is forbidden. If they insist on coming, the ships must be destroyed and anyone aboard those ships must be beheaded."Ongoing
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Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)Births
*January 8 —Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero , Spanish Archbishop of Toledo (d.1709 )
*January 13 —Philipp Jakob Spener , German theologian (d.1705 )
*February 1 —Marquard Gude , German archaeologist (d.1689 )
*February 18 —Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna , Swedish statesman (d.1680 )
*June 3 —Philippe Quinault , French writer (d.1688 )
*July 18 —Robert Hooke , English scientist (d.1703 )
*August 24 —Peder Griffenfeld , Danish statesman (d.1699 )
*November 22 —Francis Willughby , English biologist (d.1672 )
*November 27 —Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon , second wife ofLouis XIV of France (d.1719 )Deaths
*March — Thomas Randolph, poet
*March 27 —Robert Naunton , English politician (b.1563 )
*July 10 —Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo , novelist and dramatist (b. c. 1580)
*August 7 —Friedrich von Spee , German writer (b.1591 )
*August 27 —Lope de Vega , Spanish poet and playwright (b.1562 )
*September 6 —Metius , Dutch mathematician and astronomer (b.1571 )
*November 15 —Thomas Parr , alleged oldest living man (b.1483 )
*December 25 —Samuel de Champlain , French explorer and founder of Quebec (b. c.1567 )
*"date unknown"
** John Hall, son-in-law of William Shakespeare
**Iravikkutti Pillai , Venad leader (b.1603 )
*"probable" —Anthony Shirley , traveller (b.1565 )
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