1633 Explained

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

Events of 1633

• 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 - The Roman Catholic church forces Galileo Galilei to recant his heliocentric view of the solar system: Eppur si muove (Italian).
• October 22 - Ming dynasty fight with Dutch East India Company sea battle of gulf Kinmen, Zheng Zhilong won great victory.

Undated

• 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.
• 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

• February 20 – Jan de Baen, Dutch portrait painter (d. 1702)
• February 23 - Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist (d. 1703)
• April - Willem Drost, Dutch painter and printmaker (d. 1659)
• 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)
• date unknown - Sir Edward Seymour, 4th Baronet, politician (d. 1708)

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Deaths

• March 1 - George Herbert, English poet and orator (b. 1593)
• July 22 - Trijntje Keever, presumed to have been the tallest woman ever (b. 1616)
• 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)
• 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 - Cornelius 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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Other uses

• The numeral 1633 (novel) is also the title of an alternative history science fiction novel by David Weber and Eric Flint.
• 1633 (album) is an album by the Japanese artist Merzbow