1628

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Year '1628' (MDCXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1628

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1628

January - June

★ March 1 - writs were issued in February 1628 by Charles I of England that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date.

July - December

★ August 10 - The Swedish 64 gun sailing ship Vasa sinks on her maiden voyage in the Stockholm harbor

★ September 6 - Puritans settle Salem which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.

★ October 28 – Siege of La Rochelle ends with the surrender of the Huguenots.

Undated

★ Charles I reconvenes the English Parliament and accepts the Petition of Right as a concession to gain his subsidies.

★ John Felton assassinates George Villiers, duke of Buckingham.

★ William Harvey publishes his findings about blood circulation.

★ The Collegiate School, today the oldest educational institution in North America, is established.

★ ''Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus'', by William Harvey, is published.

★ Shah Jahan becomes king of the Mughal Empire

Births

★ January 8 - François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg, French general (d. 1695)

★ January 10 - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d. 1687)

★ January 12 - Charles Perrault, French folklorist (d. 1703)

★ March 10 - Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician (d. 1694)

★ March 17 - François Girardon, French sculptor (d. 1715)

★ April 23 - Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (d. 1704)

★ May 17 - Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria, regent of the Tyrol (d. 1662)

★ July 11 - Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (d. 1701)

★ August 29 - John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)

★ November 28 - John Bunyan, English writer (d. 1688)

★ December 25 - Noël Coypel, French painter (d. 1707)

★ ''probable'' - Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruysdael, celebrated Dutch landscape painter (d. 1682)
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Deaths

★ March 12 - John Bull, English composer (born c1562)

★ March 29 - Tobias Matthew, Archbishop of York (b. 1546)

★ June 8 - Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (b. 1547)

★ July 13 - Robert Shirley, English adventurer (born c1581)

★ August 6 - Johannes Junius, Mayor of Bamberg (b. 1573)

★ August 23 - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (b. 1592)

★ September 30 - Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English writer (b. 1554)

★ October 16 - François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555)

★ November 15 - Roque Gonzales, Paraguayan missionary (b. 1576)

★ November 16 - Paolo Quagliati, Italian composer (born c1555)

★ Gregor Aichinger, German composer (born c1565)
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