1638
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| Centuries: | 16th century - 17th century - 18th century |
| Decades: | 1600s 1610s 1620s - 1630s - 1640s 1650s 1660s |
| Years: | 1635 1636 1637 - 1638 - 1639 1640 1641 |
| 1638 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 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).
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[edit] Events of 1638
[edit] January - June
- February 21 - The Scottish National Covenant is signed in Edinburgh.
- March 5 - Thirty Years' War - The Treaty of Hamburg is signed by France and Sweden.
- March 29 - The Swedish arrive on the ships Kalmare Nyckel and Fågel Grip to America, to establish the first settlement in Delaware, called New Sweden.
- April 15 - Shogunate forces defeat the last remnants of the Shimabara Rebellion in the fortress of Hara.
[edit] July - December
- October 21 - The Great Thunderstorm breaks out in Widecombe-in-the-Moor, England.
- November - The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland is summoned to Glasgow by King Charles I of England.
[edit] Undated
- Covenanters meet at Muchalls Castle to compose responses to the Bishops of Aberdeen.
- The 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.
- Dutch merchant Willem Kieft is 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, is founded.
- The Beijing Gazette makes 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.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1638 MDCXXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2391 |
| Armenian calendar | 1087 ԹՎ ՌՁԷ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -206 – -205 |
| Berber calendar | 2588 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2182 |
| Burmese calendar | 1000 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7146 – 7147 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁丑年十一月十七日 (4274/4334-11-17) — to —
戊寅年十一月廿七日(4275/4335-11-27) |
| Coptic calendar | 1354 – 1355 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1630 – 1631 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5398 – 5399 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1693 – 1694 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1560 – 1561 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4739 – 4740 |
| Holocene calendar | 11638 |
| Iranian calendar | 1016 – 1017 |
| Islamic calendar | 1047 – 1048 |
| Japanese calendar | Kan'ei 15 (寛永15年) |
| Korean calendar | 3971 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2181 |
- January 1 - Emperor Go-Sai (d. 1685)
- January 24 - Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (d. 1706)
- March 14 - Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (d. 1710)
- March 15 - Shunzhi Emperor of China (d. c.1661)
- March 23 - Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1731)
- May 6 - Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1696)
- May 13 - Richard Simon, French Biblical critic (d. 1712)
- July 10 - David Teniers III, Flemish painter (d. 1685)
- August 6 - Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (d. 1715)
- September 5 - King Louis XIV of France (d. 1715)
- September 10 - Maria Theresa of Spain, wife of Louis XIV of France (d. 1683)
- November 25 - Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II of England (d. 1705)
- See also Category:1638 births.
[edit] Deaths
- January 21 - Ignazio Donati, Italian composer (b. c.1570)
- January 27 - Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses, Spanish novelist (b. c.1585)
- February 26 - Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (b. 1581)
- April 7 - Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese ruler of Satsuma (b. 1576)
- April 13 - Henri, duc de Rohan, French Huguenot leader (b. 1579)
- May 6 - Cornelius Jansen, French bishop and religious reformer (b. 1585)
- June 25 - Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1602)
- September 14 - John Harvard, American clergyman (b. 1607)
- November 9 - Johann Heinrich Alsted, German theologian (b. 1588)
- November 11 - Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem, Dutch painter (b. 1562)
- December 8 - Ivan Gundulić, Croatian poet (b. 1589)
- date unknown - Pietro Paolo Floriani, architect (b. 1585)
- See also Category:1638 deaths.
