1632 - Definition and Overview

See also: 1632 (novel)

Events

• February 22 - Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published
• July 23 - 300 colonists for New France depart Dieppe.
• November 16 - Battle of Lützen
• Christina becomes queen of Sweden; five regents, headed by Axel Oxenstierna, govern country.
• Antigua and Barbuda is first colonized by England
• Portuguese driven out of Bengal.
• Charles I of England issues charter for the colony of Maryland (named in honor of Henrietta Maria), under control of Lord Baltimore.
• Sir Francis Windebank made chief Secretary of State in England.
• University of Tartu in Estonia founded

Births

• August 29 - John Locke (philosopher).
• October 20 - Sir Christopher Wren (architect, astronomer, mathematician).
• November 24 - Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher
• November 28 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, French composer

Deaths

• April 19 - Sigismund III Vasa, king of Poland and former king of Sweden
• September 13 - Archduke Leopold V of Austria, Regent of Tyrol
• November 16 - Gustav II Adolph of Sweden, King of Sweden, killed in the Battle of Lützen