1634 - Definition and Overview

Events

• Moses Amyraut's Traite de la predestination is published
• Curaçao captured by the Dutch
• Treaty of Polianovska
• First meeting of the Académie française
• The witchcraft affair at Loudun
• Jean Nicolet lands at Green Bay, Wisconsin
• Opening of Covent Garden Market in London
• English establish a settlement at Cochin, now Kochi on Malabar coast
• First decennial performance of the Oberammergau Passion Plays
• 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.
• September 5 and September 6 - Battle of Nördlingen (1634) results in Catholic victory
• Oxford University Press receives its charter and becomes the second of the privileged presses

Births

• March 18 - Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette - French novelist (d.1693)
• March 20 - Balthasar Bekker - German theologian and philosopher (d. 1698)
• June 20 - Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy
• December 15 - Thomas Kingo - Danish poet (d.1703)
• Adam Krieger - German composer (d. 1666)
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier - French composer

Deaths

• Johann Aldringer - Austrian soldier.
• Adriano Banchieri, composer
• John Marston - English dramatist (b.1576)
• February 25 - Albrecht von Wallenstein - politician, assassinated (b.1583)
• May 12 - George Chapman - English author (b.1559)
• May 15 - Hendrick Avercamp - Dutch painter of winter scenes