1633

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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 (Latin).

Undated

• Jews of Poznań are granted a privilege of forbidding Christians to enter into their city quarter.
• In Ethiopia, Negus Fasilides expels foreign missionaries.
• Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu of Japan outlaws Christianity and begins a policy of extreme isolationism.
• Mission San Luis de Apalachee was built in the new world by two Spanish friers.
• A professorship in Arabic studies is founded at Cambridge University.

Births

• 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)

See also 1633 births.

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)
• September - Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland (b. c. 1575)
• October 25 - Jean Titelouze, French organist (born 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)

See also 1633 deaths.

Fiction about 1633

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

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