1638
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| Years: 1635 1636 1637 - 1638 - 1639 1640 1641 | |||
| Decades: 1600s 1610s 1620s - 1630s - 1640s 1650s 1660s | |||
| Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
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Events
- March 29 - Swedish arrive on the ships Kalmare Nyckel and Fågel Grip to America to establish first settlement in Delaware, called New Sweden.
- April 15 - Shogunate forces defeat the last rebels of Shimabara Rebellion in the fortress of Hara.
- May 11 - French admiral d'Estrees runs his whole fleet aground in Curaçao.
- Dutch settle in Ceylon.
- October 21 - Great thunderstorm in Widecombe-in-the-Moor, England
- 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.
- Willem Kieft, Dutch merchant, 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.
Births
- January 1 - Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (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
- 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, queen of Louis XIV of France (d. 1683)
- November 25 - Catherine of Braganza, queen of Charles II of England (d. 1705)
Deaths
- January 21 - Ignazio Donati, Italian composer
- January 27 - Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses, Spanish novelist
- 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)
- December 8 - Ivan Gundulić, Croatian poet (b. 1589)
- Johann Heinrich Alsted, German theologian (b. 1588)
- Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (b. 1564)
