1638

1638 (MDCXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1638th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 638th year of the 2nd millennium, the 38th year of the 17th century, and the 9th year of the 1630s decade. As of the start of 1638, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1638 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1638
MDCXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita2391
Armenian calendar1087
ԹՎ ՌՁԷ
Assyrian calendar6388
Balinese saka calendar1559–1560
Bengali calendar1045
Berber calendar2588
English Regnal year13 Cha. 1  14 Cha. 1
Buddhist calendar2182
Burmese calendar1000
Byzantine calendar7146–7147
Chinese calendar丁丑年 (Fire Ox)
4334 or 4274
     to 
戊寅年 (Earth Tiger)
4335 or 4275
Coptic calendar1354–1355
Discordian calendar2804
Ethiopian calendar1630–1631
Hebrew calendar5398–5399
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1694–1695
 - Shaka Samvat1559–1560
 - Kali Yuga4738–4739
Holocene calendar11638
Igbo calendar638–639
Iranian calendar1016–1017
Islamic calendar1047–1048
Japanese calendarKan'ei 15
(寛永15年)
Javanese calendar1559–1560
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3971
Minguo calendar274 before ROC
民前274年
Nanakshahi calendar170
Thai solar calendar2180–2181
Tibetan calendar阴火牛年
(female Fire-Ox)
1764 or 1383 or 611
     to 
阳土虎年
(male Earth-Tiger)
1765 or 1384 or 612
June 20: Battle of Kallo

Events

January–June

July–December

  • September 21 The Treaty of Hartford is signed, ending the Pequot War between British American colonists and the Pequot.
  • September John Spofford arrives in Boston Harbor, on the ship John of London, and is one of the first people to establish Rowely, Essex County, Massachusetts.
  • October 21 The Great Thunderstorm breaks out in Widecombe-in-the-Moor, England, killing 4 and injuring about 60. This was attributed to all lightening striking a church.
  • November The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland is summoned to Glasgow, by King Charles I of England.
  • December 18 Cardinal Mazarin becomes the first adviser to French potentate Richelieu, on the death of Leclerc du Tremblay.
  • December 21 The full moon is in total eclipse from 1:12 to 2:47 UT, and the solstice occurs later in the day, at 16:05 UT.
  • December 25 Capture of Baghdad by the Ottomans under Sultan Murad IV.

Date unknown

  • Scottish Covenanters meet at Muchalls Castle, to compose responses to the Bishops of Aberdeen.
  • 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).
  • Dutch merchant Willem Kieft is appointed Director of New Amsterdam, by the Dutch East India Company.
  • The Netherlands colonizes Mauritius.
  • The Dutch settle in Ceylon.
  • The Finnish postal service, now called Suomen Posti, is founded.
  • New Haven, the first planned city in America, is founded.
  • Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan and his sons capture the city of Kandahar, from the Safavids.
  • Shipwrecked English buccaneer Peter Wallace, called Balis by the Spanish, settles near and perhaps gives his name to the Belize River, the first known European settlement in Belize.
  • The Peking Gazette makes 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).

Births

Elisabetta Sirani
Shunzhi Emperor
Frederik Ruysch
Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve

January–March

  • January 1
    • Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières, French writer (d. 1694)
    • Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (d. 1685)
    • Nicolas Steno, Danish pioneer in anatomy and geology, bishop (d. 1686)
  • January 7
    • Filippo Bonanni, Italian Jesuit scholar (d. 1723)
    • Marie Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, German noblewoman (d. 1687)
  • January 8 – Elisabetta Sirani, Italian painter (d. 1665)
  • January 12 – Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, Austrian field marshal (d. 1701)
  • January 20 – Sir William Glynne, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1690)
  • January 21
    • David Elias Heidenreich, German poet, dramatist, librettist and translator (d. 1688)
    • Beata Rosenhane, Swedish writer (d. 1674)
  • February 13 – Frederick, Duke of Mecklenburg-Grabow, German nobleman, titular Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1688)
  • February 18 – Ikeda Tsunamasa, Japanese daimyō, ruler of the Okayama Domain (d. 1714)
  • February 25 – Jørgen Iversen Dyppel, Governor of the Danish West Indies (d. 1683)
  • February 28 – John Carmichael, 1st Earl of Hyndford, Scottish nobleman (d. 1710)
  • March 6
    • Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Tewkesbury, First Lord’s of the British Admiralty (d. 1696)
    • Statz Friedrich von Fullen, German-born nobleman, Geheimrat of war for Poland (d. 1703)
  • March 10 – John Vesey, Irish archbishop (d. 1716)
  • March 14 – Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic and religious leader, critic of Lutheranism (d. 1710)
  • March 15 – Shunzhi Emperor of China (d. 1661)
  • March 16 – François Crépieul, Jesuit missionary in Canada (d. 1702)
  • March 28 – Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1731)

April–June

  • April 2
    • Sir Henry Beaumont, 2nd Baronet, English politician (d. 1689)
    • John Covel, English clergyman and scientist, Master of Christ's College (d. 1722)
  • May 9 – Gregorio Vasquez de Arce y Ceballos, Colombian painter (d. 1711)
  • May 11 – Guy-Crescent Fagon, French physician and botanist (d. 1718)
  • May 12 – Pedro Atanasio Bocanegra, Spanish artist (d. 1688)
  • May 13 – Richard Simon, French Biblical critic (d. 1712)
  • May 29 – John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland, English nobleman and politician (d. 1711)
  • June 2 – Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon, English nobleman (d. 1709)
  • June 3 – Thomas Smith, English scholar (d. 1710)
  • June 8 – Pierre Magnol, French botanist (d. 1715)
  • June 21 – Sir William Roberts, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1688)
  • June 23 – Princess Christine Elisabeth of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg, German noblewoman (d. 1679)
  • June 27 – Samuel Frisching, Bernese soldier and politician (d. 1721)
  • June 28 – Louise Marie de La Grange d'Arquien, French noblewoman (d. 1728)
  • June 29 – Heinrich Meibom, German physicist and scholar (d. 1700)

July–September

October–December

Date unknown

  • Hannah Allen, British writer (d. 1668)

Deaths

Cornelis van Haarlem
Barbara Longhi
  • January 21 – Ignazio Donati, Italian composer (b. c. 1570)
  • January 27 – Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses, Spanish novelist (b. c. 1585)
  • February 26 – Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (b. 1581)
  • March 2 – William Spring of Pakenham, Member of Parliament (b. 1588)
  • March 22 – Johann, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (b. 1578)
  • April 1 – Henry Ley, 2nd Earl of Marlborough, English politician (b. 1595)
  • April 7 – Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese ruler of Satsuma (b. 1576)
  • April 13 – Henri, Duke of Rohan, French Huguenot leader (b. 1579)
  • April 19 – Jeremias Drexel, Jesuit writer and professor of rhetoric (b. 1581)
  • April 26 – Margareta Brahe, Swedish political activist (b. 1564)
  • May 6
    • Cornelius Jansen, French bishop and religious reformer (b. 1585)[6]
    • Gaj Singh of Marwar, Raja of Marwar Kingdom (r (b. 1595)
  • May 9 – Frederick I, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (b. 1585)
  • May 27 – Pietro Paolo Floriani, Italian architect (b. 1585)
  • June 25 – Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1602)
  • July 27 – John VIII, Count of Nassau-Siegen (b. 1583)
  • July 31 – Sibylla Schwarz, German poet (b. 1621)
  • August 3 – Philipp Moritz, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg, German noble (b. 1605)
  • August 10 – Anton Henry, Count of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (1586–1638) (b. 1571)
  • August 12 – Baltasar Marradas, Spanish count (b. 1560)
  • August 13 – Carolus Mulerius, Dutch Hispanist (b. 1601)
  • August 27 – John Hoskins, English poet (b. 1566)
  • September – Christoph Besold, German jurist (b. 1577)
  • September 5 – Dorothea of Hanau-Münzenberg, German noblewoman (b. 1556)
  • September 14 – John Harvard, American clergyman (b. 1607)
  • September 24 – Georg Friedrich, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1604–1622) (b. 1573)
  • October 6 – Jacob Dircksz de Graeff, Dutch mayor (b. 1579)
  • October 4 – Francis Hyacinth, Duke of Savoy (b. 1632)
  • October 8 – Raja Wodeyar II, King of Mysore (b. 1612)
  • October 14 – Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (b. 1552)
  • October 23 – John Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, German duke (b. 1566)
  • October 28 – Robert Petre, 3rd Baron Petre, English baron (b. 1599)
  • November 9 – Johann Heinrich Alsted, German theologian (b. 1588)
  • November 11 – Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem, Dutch painter (b. 1562)
  • November 16 – Edward Cecil, 1st Viscount Wimbledon (b. 1572)
  • November 19 – Lelio Biscia, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1575)
  • November 27
    • Redemptus of the Cross, Portuguese Carmelite lay brother and martyr (b. 1598)
    • Denis of the Nativity, French sailor and cartographer (b. 1600)
  • December 8Ivan Gundulić, Croatian poet (b. 1589)
  • December 13 – Catherine of Sweden, Countess Palatine of Kleeburg (b. 1584)
  • December 17 – François Leclerc du Tremblay (b. 1577)
  • December 23 – Barbara Longhi, Italian painter (b. 1552)

References

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  2. Parrott, David (2001). Richelieu's army : war, government, and society in France, 1624-1642. Cambridge, U.K. New York, N.Y: Cambridge University Press. p. 205. ISBN 9780521792097.
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  4. "BBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715)". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved June 9, 2022.
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  6. Carey, Patrick (2000). Biographical dictionary of Christian theologians. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. p. 273. ISBN 9780313296499.

Historical Events in 1638

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