1634 Calendar
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1634 Historical Event(s)
March 25, 1634
– The first settlers arrive in Maryland.
July 4, 1634
– The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France (Quebec, Canada)
August 18, 1634
– Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France.
September 6, 1634
– Thirty Years’ War: In the Battle of Nördlingen the Catholic Imperial army defeats Protestant armies of Sweden and Germany.
October 11, 1634
– The Burchardi flood – “the second Grote Mandrenke” killed around 15,000 men in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany.
November 11, 1634
– Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery.
Who Were Born On 1634?
January 16, 1634
– Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter, Norwegian poet (d. 1716)
January 25, 1634
– Gaspar Fagel, Dutch statesman (d. 1688)
March 18, 1634
– Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, French writer (d. 1693)
April 9, 1634
– Albertine Agnes of Nassau, Regent of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe (d. 1696)
June 20, 1634
– Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy (d. 1675)
July 14, 1634
– Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (d. 1719)
July 18, 1634
– Johannes Camphuys, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1695)
October 18, 1634
– Luca Giordano, Italian artist (d. 1705)
October 23, 1634
– Hedvig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden (d. 1715)