1638

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Years: 1635 1636 1637 - 1638 - 1639 1640 1641

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

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1638 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 1638 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 1638 MDCXXXVIII Ab urbe condita 2391 Armenian calendar 1087 ԹՎ ՌՁԷ Chinese calendar 4274/4334-11-17 (丁丑年十一月十七日) — to — 4275/4335-11-27 (戊寅年十一月廿七日) Ethiopian calendar 1630 – 1631 Hebrew calendar 5398 – 5399 Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat 1693 – 1694 - Shaka Samvat 1560 – 1561 - Kali Yuga 4739 – 4740 Iranian calendar 1016 – 1017 Islamic calendar 1048 – 1049 Japanese calendar Kan'ei 15 (寛永15年) - Imperial Year Kōki 2298 (皇紀2298年) - Jōmon Era 11638 Thai solar calendar 2181

1638 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

[edit] Events

• February 28 - signing of Scottish National Covenant in Edinburgh.
• March 29 - Swedish arrive on the ships Kalmare Nyckel and Fågel Grip to America to establish first settlement in Delaware, called New Sweden.
• April 15 - Shogunate forces defeat the last rebels of Shimabara Rebellion in the fortress of Hara.
• October 21 - Great thunderstorm in Widecombe-in-the-Moor, England
• Covenanters meet at Muchalls Castle to compose responses to the Bishops of Aberdeen.
• Dutch settle in Ceylon.
• Pedro Teixeira makes the first ascent of the Amazon River, from its mouth to Quito, Ecuador. The same trip had been made in the opposite direction in 1541.
• Willem Kieft, Dutch merchant, appointed Director of New Amsterdam by the Dutch West India Company.
• The Netherlands colonizes Mauritius.
• Shipwrecked sailors from England found the first known European settlement in Belize.
• The Finnish postal service, Suomen Posti, is founded.

[edit] Births

• January 1 - Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (died 1685)
• January 24 - Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (died 1706)
• March 14 - Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (died 1710)
• March 15 - Shunzhi Emperor of China (died c.1561)
• March 23 - Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (died 1731)
• May 6 - Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (died 1696)
• May 13 - Richard Simon, French Biblical critic (died 1712)
• July 10 - David Teniers III, Flemish painter (died 1685)
• August 6 - Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (died 1715)
• September 5 - King Louis XIV of France (died 1715)
• September 10 - Maria Theresa of Spain, wife of Louis XIV of France (died 1683)
• November 25 - Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II of England (died 1705)

See also Category:1638 births.

[edit] Deaths

• January 21 - Ignazio Donati, Italian composer (born c.1570)
• January 27 - Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses, Spanish novelist (born c.1585)
• February 26 - Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (born 1581)
• April 7 - Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese ruler of Satsuma (born 1576)
• April 13 - Henri, duc de Rohan, French Huguenot leader (born 1579)
• May 6 - Cornelius Jansen, French bishop and religious reformer (born 1585)
• June 25 - Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Spanish writer (born 1602)
• September 14 - John Harvard, American clergyman (born 1607)
• November 11 - Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem, Dutch painter (born 1562)
• December 8 - Ivan Gundulić, Croatian poet (born 1589)
• Johann Heinrich Alsted, German theologian (born 1588)
• Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (born 1564)

See also Category:1638 deaths.