1632

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 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1632
MDCXXXII
Ab urbe condita2385
Armenian calendar1081
ԹՎ ՌՁԱ
Assyrian calendar6382
Balinese saka calendar1553–1554
Bengali calendar1038–1039
Berber calendar2582
English Regnal yearCha. 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 calendarལྕགས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་
(female Iron-Sheep)
1758 or 1377 or 605
    — to —
ཆུ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་
(male Water-Monkey)
1759 or 1378 or 606

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.

Events

January–March

  • January 8 – University of Amsterdam is established at the site of the Athenaeum Illustre of Amsterdam.[1]
  • January 31 – The dissection of a body for the benefit of medical students is carried out by Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, the anatomist for the city of Amsterdam, and will be immortalized in Rembrandt's painting The Anatomy Lesson.[2]
  • February 22Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published in Florence.
  • March 9Thirty Years' War: Battle of Bamberg – Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, commander of the Catholic League, defeats the Swedish army under Gustav Horn, and recaptures the town of Bamberg.
  • March 21Thirty Years' War: King Gustavus Adolphus makes a triumphant entry into Nuremberg, where he is welcomed by the populace and pledges to protect the cause of Protestantism.[3]
  • March 29 – The Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye is signed, returning Quebec to French control, after the English had seized it in 1629.[4]
  • MarchThirty Years' War: Gustavus Adolphus invades Bavaria with his army.

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
    • Adam Frans van der Meulen, Flemish Baroque painter specialising in battle scenes (d. 1690)
    • John Platt, American settler (d. 1705)
  • 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
    • Maria Leopoldine of Austria, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1649)
    • Simon Philip, Count of Lippe-Detmold (1636–1650) (d. 1650)
  • 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

October–December

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

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