1634

Years: 1631 1632 1633 - 1634 - 1635 1636 1637
Decades: 1600s 1610s 1620s - 1630s - 1640s 1650s 1660s
Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century

February 24-25 - Rebellious soldiers kill Albrecht von Wallenstein
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.
August 18 - Urbain Grandier, a priest accused of sorcery, burned alive in Loudun, France.
September 5 and September 6 - Battle of Nördlingen (1634) results in Catholic victory

Moses Amyraut's Traite de la predestination is published
Curaçao captured by the Dutch
Treaty of Polianovska
First meeting of the Académie française
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
Oxford University Press receives its charter and becomes the second of the privileged presses

February 25 - Albrecht von Wallenstein, Austrian general (assassinated) (b. 1583)
May 12 - George Chapman, English author
May 15 - Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (b. 1585)
June 22 - Johann Graf von Aldringen, Austrian soldier (b. 1588)
June 25 - John Marston, English dramatist (b. 1576)
August 9 - William Noy, English jurist (b. 1577)
August 18 - Urbain Grandier, French priest (b. 1590)
September 3 - Edward Coke, English colonial entrepreneur and jurist (b. 1552)
December 29 - John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (b. 1612)
Adriano Banchieri, Italian composer (b. 1568)

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