1633

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Year 1633 (MDCXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• February 13 – Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
• March 1 – Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.
• April 12 – Galileo Galilei convicted of heresy by the Roman Catholic Church ^[1]
• June 18 – Charles I is crowned King of Scots, at St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh
• June 22 – The Roman Catholic Church forces Galileo Galilei to recant his heliocentric view of the Solar System: Eppur si muove (Italian) (Which, in fact, he did not say).

July–December

• October 22 – Battle of Liaoluo Bay: A large Ming dynasty fleet under Zheng Zhilong defeats a Dutch East India Company fleet at the island of Quemoy.

Date unknown

• The Jews of Poznań are granted the privilege of forbidding Christians to enter into their city quarter.
• In Ethiopia, the Emperor Fasilides expels the Jesuit missionaries.
• Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu of Japan outlaws Christianity and begins a policy of extreme isolationism.
• Completion of St Columb's Cathedral, Derry, Ireland, the first post-Reformation Anglican cathedral built in the British Isles and the first Protestant cathedral built in Europe.^[2]
• Mission San Luis de Apalachee is built in the New World by two Spanish friars.
• A professorship in Arabic studies is founded at Cambridge University.

Births

• January 20 – Edmund Maine, British Member of Parliament (d. 1711)
• January 31 – Nathaniel Crew, 3rd Baron Crew (d. 1721)
• February 20 – Jan de Baen, Dutch portrait painter (d. 1702)
• February 23 – Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist (d. 1703)
• February 26 – Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (d. 1695)
• March 1 – Yi Seo-woo, Korean scholar (d. 1709)
• March 17 – Alessandro Marchetti, Italian mathematician (d. 1714)
• March 25 – Samuel Whiting, Jr., American clergyman (d. 1713)
• March 26 – Mary Beale, British artist (d. 1699)
• March 30
  • Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (d. 1708)
  • Miron Costin, Moldavian political figure and chronicler (d. 1691)
• April – Willem Drost, Dutch painter and printmaker (d. 1659)
• April 16 – Salomon Jansz van den Tempel, Dutch shipbuilder (d. 1673)
• April 19
  • Willem Drost, Dutch painter (d. 1659)
  • Abraham Hill (d. 1721)
• April 20 – Emperor Go-Kōmyō of Japan (d. 1654)
• April 24
  • Gilbert Holles, 3rd Earl of Clare, English politician (d. 1689)
  • Paolo Boccone, Italian Botanist (d. 1704)
• May 1 – Walter Chetwynd, antiquary, politician (d. 1693)
• May 15 – Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, French noble (d. 1707)
• May 21 – Joseph Chabanceau de La Barre, Composser (d. 1678)
• June 1 – Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (d. 1687)
• June 16 – Jean de Thévenot, French traveler and scientist (d. 1667)
• June 19 – Philipp van Limborch, Dutch Protestant theologian (d. 1712)
• June 27 – Auguste of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, princess (d. 1701)
• July 1 – Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (d. 1698)
• July 6 – Sir Henry Yelverton, 2nd Baronet, Member of Parliament of England (d. 1670)
• July 25 – Joseph Williamson (politician), English politician (d. 1701)
• September 6 – Sebastian Knüpfer, German composer (d. 1676)
• September 7 – Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg, Austrian poet (d. 1694)
• September 8 – Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans (d. 1654)
• September 15 – William Croone, English physician, Fellow of the Royal Society (d. 1684)
• October 4 – Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d. 1714)
• October 14 – King James II of England and Ireland, James VII of Scotland (d. 1701)
• October 15 – Giordano Vitale, Italian mathematician (d. 1711)
• October 19 – Benedetto Gennari II, Italian painter (d. 1715)
• October 20 – Antonio Magliabechi, Italian librarian (d. 1714)
• October 25 – Esaias Fleischer (priest), Danish priest (d. 1697)
• November 3 – Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (d. 1714)
• November 10 – Thomas Jermyn, 2nd Baron Jermyn, Governor of Jersey (d. 1703)
• November 11 – George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, English writer and statesman (d. 1695)
• November 20 – Étienne de Carheil, French Jesuit priest, missionary to the Iroquois and Huron Indians (d. 1726)
• November 26 – Johann Christoph Wagenseil, German Christian Hebraist (d. 1705)
• December 18 – Willem van de Velde the Younger, Dutch painter (d. 1707)
• December 27 – Jean de Lamberville (d. 1714)
• date unknown – Sir Edward Seymour, 4th Baronet, politician (d. 1708)

Deaths

• March 1 – George Herbert, English poet and orator (b. 1593)
• June – Étienne Brûlé, French explorer (b. c. 1592)
• July 22 – Trijntje Keever, presumed to have been the tallest woman ever (b. 1616)
• August 5 – George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1562)
• August 10 – Anthony Munday, English writer (b. 1553)
• August 12 – Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (b. 1561)
• September – Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland (b. c. 1575)
• October 25 – Jean Titelouze, French organist (b. c.1562)
• October 26 – Horio Tadaharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1596)
• November 7 – Cornelis Drebbel, Dutch inventor (b. 1572)
• November 14 – William Ames, English philosopher (b. 1576)
• December 1 – Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain (b. 1566)
• December 17 – Meletius Smotrytsky, Ruthenian religious activist and author (b. 1577)
• date unknown – Xu Guangqi, Chinese scientist and mathematician (b. 1562)

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