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:''See also: 1632 (novel)''.
Year '1632' (MDCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1632

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1632

January - June

★ February 22 - Galileo's ''Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems'' is published.

★ March 29 - Treaty of Saint-Germain signed, returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.

★ April 15 - Battle of Rain: Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.

★ June 25 - Susenyos' son, Emperor Fasilides, declared the state religion of Ethiopia to again be Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, and expelled the Jesuit missionaries and other Europeans.

July - December

★ July 23 - 300 colonists for New France depart Dieppe.

★ November 6 - Battle of Lützen, death of king of Sweden Gustav II Adolf. Unbeknownst to everybody in Stockholm, his daughter Christina becomes queen after her father's death. When the news reaches Stockholm, she is made queen, while Axel Oxenstierna takes over as regent for her (until 1644) since she is under-age.

★ November 8 - Wladyslaw IV Waza elected king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth after Sigismund III Vasa's death.

Undated

★ Fasilides succeeds his father Susenyos as Emperor of Ethiopia.

★ 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.

★ Yakutsk in Russia founded.

★ King Ladislaus IV of Poland forbids Anti-Semitic books and printings.

Births

★ January 8 - Samuel von Pufendorf, German jurist (d. 1694)

★ January 29 - Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (d. 1703)

★ May 8 - Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming, German field marshal and Governor of Berlin (d. 1706)

★ June 10 - Esprit Fléchier, French writer and Bishop of Nîmes (d. 1710)

★ August 20 - Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (d. 1704)

★ August 29 - John Locke, English philosopher (d. 1704)

★ October 20 - Sir Christopher Wren, English architect, astronomer, and mathematician (d. 1723)

★ October 24 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (d. 1723)

★ October 31 - Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter (d. 1675)

★ November 23 - Jean Mabillon, French palaeographer and diplomat (d. 1707)

★ November 24 - Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (d. 1677)

★ November 28 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French composer (d. 1687)

★ December 17 - Anthony Wood, English antiquarian (d. 1695)
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Deaths

★ January 31 - Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (b. 1552)

★ April 19 - Sigismund III Vasa, King of Sweden and Poland (b. 1566)

★ April 30 - Johan Tzerclaes, Count of Tilly, Bavarian general (b. 1559)

★ May 25 - Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1572)

★ June 22 - James Whitelocke, English judge (b. 1570)

★ August 25 - Thomas Dekker, English dramatist (born c.1572)

★ September 13 - Leopold V of Austria, regent of Tyrol (b. 1586)

★ October 12 - Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1549)

★ October 30 - Henri II de Montmorency, French naval officer and Governor of Languedoc (b. 1595)

★ November 6 - King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (killed in battle) (b. 1594)

★ November 17 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (b. 1594)

★ November 27 - John Eliot, English statesman (b. 1592)

★ November 29 - Frederick V, Elector Palatine (b. 1596)

★ December 7 - Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia (b. 1607)

★ December 8 - Philippe van Lansberge, Flemish astronomer (b. 1561)

★ ''date unknown'' - Domhnall Spainnach MacMurrough-Kavanagh, last ''de facto'' King of Leinster
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