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Events
Moses Amyraut
's
Traite de la predestination
is published
Curaçao
captured by the Dutch
Treaty of Polianovska
First meeting of the
Académie française
The witchcraft affair at
Loudun
Jean Nicolet
lands at
Green Bay, Wisconsin
Opening of Covent Garden Market in London
English establish a settlement at Cochin, now
Kochi
on
Malabar
coast
First decennial performance of the
Oberammergau Passion Plays
March 1
- Battle at Smolensk, King
Ladislaus IV of Poland
defeats Russian army.
March 25
- The first settlers arrive in
St. Mary's City, Maryland
(led by
Lord Baltimore
), the fourth permanent settlement in British North America.
September 5
and
September 6
-
Battle of Nördlingen (1634)
results in Catholic victory
Oxford University Press
receives its charter and becomes the second of the
privileged presses
Births
March 18
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Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette
- French novelist (d.1693)
March 20
- Balthasar Bekker - German theologian and philosopher (d. 1698)
June 20
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Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy
December 15
- Thomas Kingo - Danish poet (d.1703)
Adam Krieger - German composer (d. 1666)
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
- French composer
Deaths
Johann Aldringer - Austrian soldier.
Adriano Banchieri
, composer
John Marston
- English dramatist (b.1576)
February 25
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Albrecht von Wallenstein
- politician, assassinated (b.1583)
May 12
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George Chapman
- English author (b.1559)
May 15
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Hendrick Avercamp
- Dutch painter of winter scenes
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