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Year 1634 ( MDCXXXIV ) was a Common Year Starting On Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian Calendar ).

EVENTS OF 1634

January – June

February 24 – February 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.

July – December

August 18 — Urbain Grandier , a priest accused of sorcery, burned alive in Loudun , France.

September 5 and September 6 — Battle Of Nördlingen results in Catholic victory.

Undated

Moses Amyraut 's ''Traite de la predestination'' is published.

Curaçao is captured by the Dutch.

Treaty Of Polianovska is defined.

First meeting of the Académie Française occurs.

Jean Nicolet lands at Green Bay, Wisconsin .

Opening of Covent Garden Market in London occurs.

English establish a settlement at Cochin, now Kochi on Malabar coast.

First decennial performance of the Oberammergau Passion Play s is held.

In England , Oxford University Press receives its charter and becomes the second of the Privileged Presses .

BIRTHS

January 16 — Dorothe Engelbretsdotter , Norway's first female author (d. 1713 )

January 25 — Gaspar Fagel , Dutch statesman (d. 1688 )

March 18 — Marie-Madeleine De La Fayette , French novelist (d. 1693 )

April 9 — Albertine Agnes Of Nassau , Regent of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe (d. 1696 )

June 20 — Charles Emmanuel II Of Savoy (d. 1675 )

July 14 — Pasquier Quesnel , French Jansenist theologian (d. 1719 )

July 18 — Johannes Camphuys , Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1695 )

October 18 — Luca Giordano , Italian artist (d. 1705 )

December 15 — Thomas Kingo , Danish poet (d. 1703 )

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DEATHS

February 25 — Albrecht Von Wallenstein , Austrian general (assassinated) (b. 1583 )

May 12 — George Chapman , English author (born c. 1559 )

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 11 — Frederick Ulrich, Duke Of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1591 )

August 18 — Urbain Grandier , French priest (b. 1590 )

September 3 — Edward Coke , English colonial entrepreneur and jurist (b. 1552 )

December 25 — Lettice Knollys , English noblewoman (b. 1540 )

December 29 — John Albert Vasa , Polish bishop (b. 1612 )

''date unknown''

--- Adriano Banchieri , Italian composer (b. 1568 )

--- Johan Bara , painter and engraver (b. c. 1581)

--- Wigund-Jeronym Trubecki , prince of Trubeck

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