1633
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| Years: 1630 1631 1632 - 1633 - 1634 1635 1636 | ||||||||||
| Decades: 1600s 1610s 1620s - 1630s - 1640s 1650s 1660s | ||||||||||
| Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
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Events
- 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.
- June 22 - Catholic church forces Galileo Galilei to recant his heliocentric view of the solar system. Eppur si muove.
- Jews of Poznań are granted a privilege of forbidding Christians to enter into their city quarter.
- In Ethiopia, Negus Fasilidas expels foreign missionaries.
- Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu of Japan outlaws Christianity and begins a policy of extreme isolationism.
Births
- February 23 - Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist (d. 1703)
- April 20 - Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (d. 1654)
- 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)
- July 1 - Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (d. 1698)
- September 8 - Ferdinand IV of Germany (d. 1654)
- October 14 - King James II of England and Ireland/King James VII of Scotland (d. 1701)
- November 3 - Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (d. 1714)
- November 11 - George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, English writer and statesman (d. 1695)
- Willem Drost, Dutch painter and printmaker (d. 1659)
Deaths
- March 1 - George Herbert, English poet and orator (b. 1593)
- August 5 - Archbishop George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1562)
- August 10 - Anthony Munday, English writer (b. 1553)
- August 12 - Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (b. 1561)
- October 25 - Jean Titelouze, French organist
- October 26 - Horio Tadaharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1596)
- November 7 - Cornelius Drebbel, Dutch inventor (b. 1572)
- November 14 - William Ames, English philosopher (b. 1576)
- December 1 - Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain (b. 1566)
- Meletius Smotrytsky, Ruthenian religious activist and author (b. 1577)
1633 is also the title of an alternative history science fiction novel by David Weber and Eric Flint. The continued saga of the town of Grantiville, West Virginia, in the middle of the Thirty Years' War in Germany. Sequel to 1632.
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