1638

Centuries:	16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades:	1600s 1610s 1620s - 1630s - 1640s 1650s 1660s
Years:	1635 1636 1637 - 1638 - 1639 1640 1641

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[edit] Events of 1638

February 28 - signing of Scottish National Covenant in Edinburgh.
March 5 - The Treaty of Hamburg is signed by France and Sweden.
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.

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.
New Haven, the first planned city in America, founded.
The Beijing Gazette made an official switch in its production process of newspapers, from woodblock printing to movable type printing; private newspapers in Ming Dynasty China were first mentioned in 1582.
Sultan Merad IV captures Baghdad.

See also Category:1638 births.

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 9 - Johann Heinrich Alsted, German theologian (born 1588)
November 11 - Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem, Dutch painter (born 1562)
December 8 - Ivan Gundulić, Croatian poet (born 1589)
date unknown - Pietro Paolo Floriani, architect (born 1585)