1634

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 in the summer, dressed in traditional Chinese robes, since he thought that Lake Michigan was really the Pacific Ocean leading to the Ming Dynasty of China.
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.

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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)

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 von Aldringen, Austrian field marshal (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)
date unknown
- Adriano Banchieri, Italian composer (b. 1568)
- Johan Bara, painter and engraver (b. c. 1581)
- Wigund-Jeronym Trubecki, prince of Trubeck

See also Category:1634 deaths.

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