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Year '1633' (MDCXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1633

Undated

Births

Deaths

Fiction about 1633

Events of 1633

★ February 13 - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.

★ March 1 - Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.

★ June 22 - The Roman Catholic church forces Galileo Galilei to recant his heliocentric view of the solar system: ''Eppur si muove'' (Latin).

Undated

★ Jews of Poznań are granted a privilege of forbidding Christians to enter into their city quarter.

★ In Ethiopia, Negus Fasilides expels foreign missionaries.

★ Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu of Japan outlaws Christianity and begins a policy of extreme isolationism.

★ Mission San Luis de Apalachee was built in the new world by two Spanish friers.

Births

★ February 23 - Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist (d. 1703)

★ April - Willem Drost, Dutch painter and printmaker (d. 1659)

★ April 20 - Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (d. 1654)

★ June 1 - Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (d. 1687)

★ June 16 - Jean de Thévenot, French traveler and scientist (d. 1667)

★ June 19 - Philipp van Limborch, Dutch Protestant theologian (d. 1712)

★ July 1 - Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (d. 1698)

★ September 8 - Ferdinand IV of Germany (d. 1654)

★ October 14 - King James II of England and Ireland/King James VII of Scotland (d. 1701)

★ November 3 - Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (d. 1714)

★ November 11 - George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, English writer and statesman (d. 1695)

★ ''date unknown'' - Sir Edward Seymour, 4th Baronet, politician (d. 1708)
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Deaths

★ March 1 - George Herbert, English poet and orator (b. 1593)

★ August 5 - Archbishop George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1562)

★ August 10 - Anthony Munday, English writer (b. 1553)

★ August 12 - Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (b. 1561)

★ September - Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland (b. c. 1575)

★ October 25 - Jean Titelouze, French organist (born c.1562)

★ October 26 - Horio Tadaharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1596)

★ November 7 - Cornelius Drebbel, Dutch inventor (b. 1572)

★ November 14 - William Ames, English philosopher (b. 1576)

★ December 1 - Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain (b. 1566)

★ December 17 - Meletius Smotrytsky, Ruthenian religious activist and author (b. 1577)

★ ''date unknown'' - Xu Guangqi, Chinese scientist and mathematician (b. 1562)
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Fiction about 1633

The numeral ''1633 (novel)'' is also the title of an alternative history science fiction novel by David Weber and Eric Flint.