1632

1632 (MDCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1632nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 632nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 32nd year of the 17th century, and the 3rd year of the 1630s decade. As of the start of 1632, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

This article is about the year 1632. For the novel by Eric Flint, see 1632 (novel).
Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
January 31: The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp is given and the event is later painted by Rembrandt.
April 15: Sweden'a Army, led by King Gustavus Adolphus, defeats the Holy Roman Empire and fatally wounds Count Tilly in the Battle of Rain, fought at Bavaria near the village of Rain.
November 16: King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden is killed in the Battle of Lützen.
1632 by topic
Arts and science
  • Architecture
  • Art
  • Literature
  • Music
  • Science
Leaders
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Works category
  • Works
1632 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1632
MDCXXXII
Ab urbe condita2385
Armenian calendar1081
ԹՎ ՌՁԱ
Assyrian calendar6382
Balinese saka calendar1553–1554
Bengali calendar1039
Berber calendar2582
English Regnal year7 Cha. 1 – 8 Cha. 1
Buddhist calendar2176
Burmese calendar994
Byzantine calendar7140–7141
Chinese calendar辛未年 (Metal Goat)
4329 or 4122
    — to —
壬申年 (Water Monkey)
4330 or 4123
Coptic calendar1348–1349
Discordian calendar2798
Ethiopian calendar1624–1625
Hebrew calendar5392–5393
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1688–1689
 - Shaka Samvat1553–1554
 - Kali Yuga4732–4733
Holocene calendar11632
Igbo calendar632–633
Iranian calendar1010–1011
Islamic calendar1041–1042
Japanese calendarKan'ei 9
(寛永９年)
Javanese calendar1553–1554
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3965
Minguo calendar280 before ROC
民前280年
Nanakshahi calendar164
Thai solar calendar2174–2175
Tibetan calendar阴金羊年
(female Iron-Goat)
1758 or 1377 or 605
    — to —
阳水猴年
(male Water-Monkey)
1759 or 1378 or 606

Events

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Date unknown
  • Antigua and Barbuda is first colonized by England.
  • The Portuguese are driven out of Bengal.
  • King Władysław IV Vasa of Poland forbids anti-Semitic books and printings.
  • The rural parish of Loppi was founded.[9]
  • Construction of the Taj Mahal begins.
  • Catharina Stopia succeeds her spouse as Sweden's ambassador to Russia, becoming perhaps the first female diplomat in Europe.[10]
  • Approximate date – Last inhabitants leave the original city of Reimerswaal in Zeeland.

Births
Adam Frans van der Meulen
Christopher Wren
Erik Benzelius the Elder
Abbas II of Persia
Baruch Spinoza

January–March
  • January 1 – Claude de Choiseul-Francières, Marshal of France (d. 1711)
  • January 3 – Sir John Duke, 2nd Baronet, Member of Parliament of England (d. 1705)
  • January 8 – Samuel von Pufendorf, German jurist (d. 1694)
  • January 11
  • January 14 – Gustavus Adolphus of the Palatinate, German noble (d. 1641)
  • January 26 – Marie Charlotte de la Trémoille, French noble (d. 1682)
  • January 29
    • Elsa Elisabeth Brahe, Swedish countess and duchess (d. 1689)
    • Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (d. 1703)
  • February 11 – Francisco de Aguiar y Seijas, Spanish cleric and bishop (d. 1698)
  • February 12 – Charles Aubert de La Chesnaye, French businessman active in Canada (d. 1702)
  • February 18 – Giovanni Battista Vitali, Italian composer (d. 1692)
  • February 20 – Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, English statesman (d. 1712)
  • February 24 – Antoine Benoist, French painter (d. 1717)
  • February 29 – Juriaen van Streeck, Dutch painter (d. 1687)
  • March 8 – Davide Cocco Palmieri, Italian Catholic bishop (d. 1711)
  • March 13 – John Houblon, first Governor of the Bank of England (1694-1697) (d. 1712)
  • March 21 – Sir John Hotham, 2nd Baronet, Member of the House of Commons of England (d. 1689)
  • March 25 – John Temple, Irish politician (d. 1705)
  • March 27 – Gustav Adolph, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken and general sergeant of the Holy Roman Empire at the Rhine (d. 1677)
  • March 30 – John Proctor, Massachusetts farmer, tavern keeper (d. 1692)

April–June
  • April 2 – Georg Caspar Wecker, German composer (d. 1695)
  • April 6
  • April 12 – Henry Chauncy, British antiquarian (d. 1719)
  • April 19 – Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis, Member of Parliament (d. 1673)
  • April 21 – Sir Hugh Smith, 1st Baronet, English Member of Parliament (d. 1680)
  • May 1 – Friedrich Spanheim the Younger, Calvinist theologian (d. 1701)
  • May 3 – Catherine of St. Augustine, French nun, nurse of New France (d. 1668)
  • May 8 – Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming, German field marshal, Governor of Berlin (d. 1706)
  • May 13 – Nicolas Pitau, Flemish-born French engraver (d. 1671)
  • May 15 – Adolf William, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (d. 1668)
  • May 16 – Jeremias van Rensselaer, Dutch colonial governor (d. 1674)
  • May 17 – John Hall, English politician (d. 1711)
  • May 21 – Feodosia Morozova, Russian religious dissident martyr (d. 1675)
  • June 10 – Esprit Fléchier, French writer and Bishop of Nîmes (d. 1710)
  • June 14 – Jean Gallois, French scholar and abbé (d. 1707)
  • June 25 – Girolamo Corner, Venetian statesman and military commander (d. 1690)[11]

July–September
  • July 3 – Tylman van Gameren, Dutch architect (d. 1706)
  • July 15 – Thomas Seamer, founding settler of Norwalk, Connecticut (d. 1712)
  • July 21 – Sir Hugh Cholmeley, 4th Baronet, English politician (d. 1689)
  • August 2 – Kaspar von Stieler, German soldier-poet (d. 1707)
  • August 13 – François-Séraphin Régnier-Desmarais, French diplomat and writer (d. 1713)
  • August 15 – Valentine Hollingsworth, English colonist of Delaware (d. 1710)
  • August 20 – Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit and preacher (d. 1704)[12]
  • August 27 – Johannetta of Sayn-Wittgenstein, German noblewoman member of the House of Sponheim (d. 1701)
  • August 29 – John Locke, English philosopher (d. 1704)[13]
  • September 3 – John Tregonwell, English Member of Parliament (d. 1682)
  • September 14 – Francis Hyacinth, Duke of Savoy (d. 1638)
  • September 15 – François Adhémar de Monteil, Comte de Grignan, French aristocrat (d. 1714)
  • September 23 – Agatha Christine of Hanau-Lichtenberg, German noblewoman (d. 1681)
  • September 29 – George III, Landgrave of Hesse-Itter (1661–1676) (d. 1676)

October–December
  • October 1 – George Durant, attorney in the Province of Carolina (d. 1692)
  • October 18 – Thomas Proby, English politician (d. 1689)
  • October 20
    • Pedro Antonio Fernández de Castro, 10th Count of Lemos, Viceroy of Peru (d. 1672)
    • Edward Hungerford, English politician (d. 1711)
    • Sir Christopher Wren, English architect, astronomer and mathematician (d. 1723)[14]
  • October 21 – William Hedges, first governor of the East India Company (d. 1701)
  • October 24 – Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (d. 1723)[15]
  • October 25
    • Charles Dormer, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon, English noble (d. 1709)
    • Francis Mezger, Austrian Benedictine academic and writer (d. 1701)
  • October 28 – Antoine Massoulié, French Dominican theologian (d. 1706)
  • October 29 – Enno Louis, Prince of East Frisia, Frisian prince (d. 1660)
  • October 31 (bapt.) – Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter (d. 1675)[16]
  • November 16 – Sir Anthony Cope, 4th Baronet, English Member of Parliament (d. 1675)
  • November 23 – Jean Mabillon, French Benedictine monk and scholar of the Congregation of Saint Maur (d. 1707)
  • November 24 – Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (d. 1677)[17]
  • November 26 – Philipp Ludwig III, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (1638–1641) (d. 1641)
  • November 28 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French composer (d. 1687)[18]
  • December 9 – William Clayton, acting Governor of the Pennsylvania Colony (1684–1685) (d. 1689)
  • December 16 – Erik Benzelius the Elder, Swedish theologian (d. 1709)
  • December 17 – Anthony Wood, English antiquarian (d. 1695)
  • December 24
    • Matthias Petersen, sea captain and whaler from the North Frisian island of Föhr (d. 1706)
    • Ōkubo Tadatomo, Japanese daimyō (d. 1712)
  • December 31 – Abbas II of Persia, Shah of Iran (d. 1666)

Date unknown
  • Bárbara Coronel, Spanish actress (d. 1691)
  • Anne de La Grange-Trianon, French courtier (d. 1707)
  • Louise Boyer, French duchess and courtier (d. 1697)

Deaths
Tokugawa Hidetada
King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden

References
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  2. Rachlin, Harvey (2007). Scandals, Vandals and Da Vincis. Chrysalis Books. pp. 55–61. ISBN 978-1-86105-878-2.
  3. Harriet Earhart Monroe, History of the Life of Gustavus Adolphus II: The Hero-General of the Reformation (Lutheran Publication Society, 1910) pp. 93-95
  4. William Leo Lucey (1957). The Catholic Church in Maine. M. Jones Company. p. 6.
  5. Seppo Zetterberg (2007). Viron Historia (in Finnish). Helsinki: Tammi. ISBN 978-9517465205.
  6. David Eggenberger (January 1, 1985). An Encyclopedia of Battles: Accounts of Over 1,560 Battles from 1479 B.C. to the Present. Courier Corporation. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-486-24913-1.
  7. Franklin D. Margiotta (1994). Brassey's Encyclopedia of Military History and Biography. Brassey's. p. 418. ISBN 978-0-02-881096-6.
  8. Daniel, Clifton (1989). Chronicle of America. Chronicle publication. p. 59. ISBN 0-13-133745-9.
  9. Loppi-info Archived September 2, 2021, at the Wayback Machine (in Finnish)
  10. Liljedahl, Otto Ragnar (1935). Sveriges första kvinnliga diplomat.: Egenten Johan Möllers maka Catharina Stopia. ut: Personhistorisk tidskrift 1934. Stockholm. Libris 2776256.
  11. Derosas, Renzo (1983). "CORNER, Girolamo". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 29: Cordier–Corvo (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
  12. "Louis Bourdaloue | French priest | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved March 10, 2022.
  13. J. D. Mabbott (June 18, 1973). John Locke. Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-349-00229-0.
  14. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (April 23, 2007). Christopher Wren. Oxford University Press, UK. p. 1641. ISBN 978-0-19-164752-9.
  15. Tech Engineering News. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1956. p. 22.
  16. Norbert Schneider; Johannes Vermeer (1994). Jan Vermeer, 1632-1675: Veiled Emotions. Benedikt Taschen. p. 7. ISBN 978-3-8228-9046-2.
  17. Baruch de Spinoza; Benedictus de Spinoza (February 27, 1994). A Spinoza Reader: The Ethics and Other Works. Princeton University Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-691-00067-1.
  18. BBC Music Magazine. BBC Magazines. 1996. p. 36.
  19. The New Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica. 1998. p. 795. ISBN 978-0-85229-663-9.
  20. Thomas Dekker (September 11, 1999). The Shoemaker's Holiday: Thomas Dekker. Manchester University Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-7190-3099-4.
  21. Franz Daxecker (2004). The Physicist and Astronomer Christopher Scheiner: Biography, Letters, Works. Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck. p. 15. ISBN 978-3-901249-69-3.
  22. The American-Scandinavian review. 1932. p. 79.
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