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Everything about 1638 totally explainedYear 1638 ( MDCXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1638
January - June
July - December
October 21 - Great thunderstorm in Widecombe-in-the-Moor, England.
November - General Assembly of the Church of Scotland is summoned to Glasgow by King Charles I of England.
Undated
Covenanters meet at Muchalls Castle to compose responses to the Bishops of Aberdeen.
Dutch settle in Ceylon.
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.
Willem Kieft, Dutch merchant, appointed Director of New Amsterdam by the Dutch West India Company.
The Netherlands colonizes Mauritius.
Shipwrecked sailors from England found the first known European settlement in Belize.
The Finnish postal service, Suomen Posti, is founded.
New Haven, the first planned city in America, founded.
The Beijing Gazette made 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.
Sultan Merad IV captures Baghdad.
Births
January 1 - Emperor Go-Sai (died 1685)
January 24 - Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (died 1706)
March 14 - Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (died 1710)
March 15 - Shunzhi Emperor of China (died c.1661)
March 23 - Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (died 1731)
May 6 - Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (died 1696)
May 13 - Richard Simon, French Biblical critic (died 1712)
July 10 - David Teniers III, Flemish painter (died 1685)
August 6 - Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (died 1715)
September 5 - King Louis XIV of France (died 1715)
September 10 - Maria Theresa of Spain, wife of Louis XIV of France (died 1683)
November 25 - Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II of England (died 1705)
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Deaths
January 21 - Ignazio Donati, Italian composer (born c.1570)
January 27 - Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses, Spanish novelist (born c.1585)
February 26 - Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (born 1581)
April 7 - Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese ruler of Satsuma (born 1576)
April 13 - Henri, duc de Rohan, French Huguenot leader (born 1579)
May 6 - Cornelius Jansen, French bishop and religious reformer (born 1585)
June 25 - Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Spanish writer (born 1602)
September 14 - John Harvard, American clergyman (born 1607)
November 9 - Johann Heinrich Alsted, German theologian (born 1588)
November 11 - Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem, Dutch painter (born 1562)
December 8 - Ivan Gundulić, Croatian poet (born 1589)
date unknown - Pietro Paolo Floriani, architect (born 1585)
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