1633

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1633 (MDCXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (dominical letter B) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter F) of the Julian calendar, the 1633rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 633rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 33rd year of the 17th century, and the 4th year of the 1630s decade. As of the start of 1633, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1918.

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.
• March 25 – The Thorn of Andria, said to be taken from Christ's Crown of Thorns, bleeds for the first time, on Good Friday.^[1]
• April 12 – Galileo Galilei convicted of heresy by the Roman Catholic Church ^[2]
• 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

• July 7 – The Dutch East India Company fleet led by Hans Putmans attacks by surprise its ally Zheng Zhilong's base near Xiamen.
• 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 begins issuing the Sakoku Edicts outlawing Christianity, beginning a policy of extreme isolationism until 1853.
• 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.^[3]
• 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

Alessandro Marchetti (mathematician) born 17 March

Emperor Go-Kōmyō born 20 April

Paolo Boccone born 24 April

Gesina ter Borch born 15 November

January–March

• 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
  • Charles Patin, French physician (d. 1693)
  • Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist (d. 1703)
• February 26 – Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow and last Administrator of Ratzeburg (d. 1695)
• March 1 – Yi Seo-woo, Korean scholar (d. 1709)
• March 7 – Giovanni Battista Volpati, Italian painter (d. 1706)
• March 12 – Sir John Evelyn, 1st Baronet, of Godstone, English noble (d. 1671)
• 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
  • Miron Costin, Moldavian (Romanian) political figure and chronicler (d. 1691)
  • Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, German general, Landgraf of Hesse-Homburg (d. 1708)

April–June

• April 16 – Salomon Jansz van den Tempel, Dutch shipbuilder (d. 1673)
• April 19
  • Willem Drost, Dutch painter (d. 1659)
  • Abraham Hill, British merchant (d. 1721)
• April 20 – Emperor Go-Kōmyō, of Japan (d. 1654)
• April 24
  • Paolo Boccone, Italian botanist from Sicily (d. 1704)
  • Gilbert Holles, 3rd Earl of Clare, English politician and Erl (d. 1689)
• May 1 – Walter Chetwynd, antiquary, politician (d. 1691)
• 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, German noble (d. 1701)

July–September

• 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, English politician (d. 1701)
• September 6 – Sebastian Knüpfer, German composer (d. 1676)
• September 7 – Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg, Austrian writer and noble (d. 1695)
• September 8 – Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans (d. 1654)
• September 15 – William Croone, English physician and one of the original Fellows of the Royal Society (d. 1684)

October–December

• October 4 – Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d. 1714)
• October 14 – King James II of England (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, Danish priest (d. 1697)
• November 2 – George Gordon, 15th Earl of Sutherland, Scottish noble (d. 1703)
• 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 15 – Gesina ter Borch, Dutch Golden Age painter (d. 1690)
• 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, French missionary (d. 1714)
• December 29
  • Jean Le Pelletier, French polygraph and alchemist (d. 1711)
  • Johannes Zollikofer, Swiss vicar (d. 1692)
• 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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