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1632 Calendar

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•  February 22, 1632 – Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
•  March 29, 1632 – Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.
•  April 15, 1632 – Battle of Rain; Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years’ War.
•  July 23, 1632 – Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.
•  November 6, 1632 – Thirty years war: Battle of Lützen is fought, the Swedes are victorious but the King of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus dies in the battle.

•  January 8, 1632 – Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist (d. 1694)
•  April 6, 1632 – Maria Leopoldine of Austria, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1649)
•  May 8, 1632 – Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming, German marshal (d. 1706)
•  August 29, 1632 – John Locke, English philosopher (d. 1704)
•  October 20, 1632 – Sir Christopher Wren, English architect (d. 1723)
•  October 24, 1632 – Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microbiologist (d. 1723)
•  October 31, 1632 – (baptism) Johannes Vermeer, Flemish painter (d. 1675)
•  November 24, 1632 – Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (d. 1677)
•  November 28, 1632 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, French composer (d. 1687)
•  December 17, 1632 – Anthony Wood, English antiquarian (d. 1695)