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: ''For the "1634" novels co-authored by Eric Flint, see 1632 series.''
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).

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Events of 1634

January – June

July – December

Undated

Births

Deaths

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 Plays 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)

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★ Adriano Banchieri, Italian composer (b. 1568)

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

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★ Wigund-Jeronym Trubecki, prince of Trubeck
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