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Willem Blaeu's 1635 world map
Year 1635

Events

January–June

• February 22 – The Académie française in Paris is formally constituted, as the national academy for the preservation of the French language.
• April 13 – Druze warlord Fakhr-al-Din II is executed in Constantinople.
• May – France declares war on Spain.
• May 30 – Thirty Years' War – The Peace of Prague is signed, which ends the German civil war aspect of the conflict.

July–December

• July 31 – The Royal Mail service is made available to the public, by Charles I of England.
• August 25 – The Great Colonial Hurricane strikes Narragansett Bay as a possible Category 3 hurricane, killing over 46 people.
• September 12 – The Treaty of Sztumska Wieś is signed, between Sweden and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
• October 9 – Rhode Island founder Roger Williams is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident, after speaking out against punishments for religious offenses, and giving away Native American land.
• November 15 – Thomas Parr, dead at the alleged age of 152, is buried in Westminster Abbey.
• November 22 – The Dutch pacification campaign on Formosa, against Taiwanese aborigines, begins.

Date unknown

• Guadeloupe and Martinique are colonized by France.
• Dominica is claimed by France.
• The Ottomans are expelled from Yemen.
• In the Mughal Empire, Shah Jahan's Pearl Mosque at Lahore Fort is completed.
• Nagyszombat University (predecessor of Budapest University) is established.
• Boston Latin School, the oldest school in the United States of America, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.
• Japan forbids merchants to travel abroad, under penalty of death.
• A Japanese imperial memorandum decrees: "Hereafter entry by the Portuguese galeota is forbidden. If they insist on coming, the ships must be destroyed and anyone aboard those ships must be beheaded."
• Willem and Joan Blaeu publish the first edition of their Atlas Novus, in Amsterdam.

Births

January–March

• January 2 – Wilhelmus à Brakel, Dutch theologian (d. 1711)
• January 6 – Charles Fane, 3rd Earl of Westmorland, Member of Parliament and House of Lords (d. 1691)
• January 8 – Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish Archbishop of Toledo (d. 1709)
• January 10 – Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma, Italian military leader (d. 1689)
• January 13 – Philipp Spener, German Christian theologian known as the Father of Pietism (d. 1705)
• January 25 – Daniel Casper von Lohenstein, German writer, diplomat and lawyer (d. 1683)
• February 1 – Marquard Gude, German archaeologist and classical scholar (d. 1689)
• February 2 – William Godolphin, English politician (d. 1696)
• February 18 – Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (d. 1680)
• February 21 – Thomas Flatman, British artist (d. 1688)
• February 25 – Walrad, Prince of Nassau-Usingen, German prince and founder of the line of Nassau-Usingen (d. 1702)
• March 2 – Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons, Italian noble (d. 1673)
• March 4 – Emilia Butler, Countess of Ossory, English countess (d. 1688)
• March 10 – Jan van Buken, Flemish painter (d. 1690)
• March 15 – Sulaiman Shikoh, Mughal Empire emperor (d. 1662)
• March 31 – Patrick Gordon, Scottish-born Russian general, rear admiral (d. 1699)

April–June

• April 16 – Frans van Mieris the Elder, Dutch Golden Age genre and portrait painter (d. 1681)
• April 17 – Edward Stillingfleet, British theologian and scholar (d. 1699)
• April 25 – William Harbord, British politician (d. 1692)
• May 4 – Willem van Outhoorn, Dutch colonial governor (d. 1720)
• May 6 – Johann Joachim Becher, German chemist (d. 1682)
• May 9 – Augustus, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön-Norburg (d. 1699)
• May 26 – Sir Thomas Lee, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1691)
• June 3 – Philippe Quinault, French writer (d. 1688)
• June 10 – Federico Caccia, Cardinal Archbishop of Milan (d. 1699)
• June 15 – Theodor Undereyk, German theologian (d. 1693)
• June 20 – Patrick Chaworth, 3rd Viscount Chaworth, Irish politician (d. 1693)
• June 21 – Laurent d'Arvieux, French traveler (d. 1702)

July–September

• July 11 – Gottfried Wilhelm Sacer, German jurist (d. 1699)
• July 13 – Jacques Bruyas, French missionary (d. 1712)
• July 19 – Francine Descartes, daughter of French philosopher Rene Descartes (d. 1640)
• July 23 – Adam Dollard des Ormeaux, iconic figure in the history of New France (d. 1660)
• July 28 – Robert Hooke, English scientist (d. 1703)
• July 29 – Christian Louis, Count of Waldeck-Wildungen (1645–1692) and Count of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1692–1706) (d. 1706)
• August 9 – Philip Traherne, British book collector (d. 1686)
• August 24 – Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman and royal favourite (d. 1699)
• August 30 – Pieter Spierinckx, Flemish painter (d. 1711)
• September 1 – Armand de Camboust, duc de Coislin, French lieutenant général (d. 1702)
• September 5 – Joseph Mezger, Austrian Benedictine (d. 1683)
• September 7 – Paul I, Prince Esterházy, Hungarian prince (d. 1713)
• September 9 – Andrzej Stech, Polish painter (d. 1697)
• September 17 – Peter Colleton, English politician (d. 1694)
• September 18 – Joana, Princess of Beira, Portuguese infanta (princess) (d. 1653)

October–December

• October 7
  • Christopher Comstock, American settler (d. 1702)
  • Roger de Piles, French painter (d. 1709)
• October 28 – Constantin Ranst de Jonge, son of Hieronimus Rans(t) (1607–1660) (d. 1714)
• November 1 – Johann Michael Vansleb, German theologian (d. 1679)
• November 3 – Johann Sturm, German philosopher (d. 1703)
• November 6 – Sir John Carew, 3rd Baronet, English Member of Parliament (d. 1692)
• November 11 – Justus Danckerts, Dutch artist (d. 1701)
• November 15 – Princess Margaret Yolande of Savoy, duchess consort of Parma (d. 1663)
• November 19 – Mingju, Qing Dynasty statesman (d. 1708)
• November 22 – Francis Willughby, English biologist (d. 1672)
• November 27 – Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France (d. 1719)
• December 11 – Sir William Twysden, 3rd Baronet, English politician (d. 1697)
• December 15 – Valentin Alberti, Silesian philosopher, theologian (d. 1697)
• December 23 – Ottaviano Jannella, Italian sculptor (d. 1661)
• December 28 – Elizabeth Stuart, second daughter of King Charles I of England (d. 1650)
• December 31 – Sir Robert Southwell, English diplomat (d. 1702)

Date unknown

• Thomas Betterton, English actor (d. 1710)

Deaths

• February 19 – Franco Burgersdijk, Dutch logician (b. 1590)
• March – Thomas Randolph, English poet
• March 27 – Robert Naunton, English politician (b. 1563)
• March 28 – Patrick Forbes, bishop in the Church of Scotland (b. 1564)
• April 13 – Fakhr-al-Din II, Ottoman Emir of Chouf (b. 1572)
• April 21 – Maria Musch, Dutch shipowner
• April 23 – Elizabeth Carey, Lady Berkeley, English courtier (b. 1576)
• April 25
  • Alessandro Tassoni, Italian poet and writer (b. 1565)
  • Julius Frederick, Duke of Württemberg-Weiltingen (b. 1588)
• April 27
  • Antonio Zapata y Cisneros, Spanish Catholic cardinal (b. 1550)
  • Wolfgang Ratke, German educational reformer (b. 1571)
• July 10 – Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo, Spanish novelist and dramatist (b. c. 1580)
• August (bur.) – Richard Whitbourne, English colonist of Newfoundland (b. 1561)
• August 7 – Friedrich von Spee, German writer (b. 1591)
• August 9 – John II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (b. 1584)
• August 27 – Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1562)
• September 6 – Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (b. 1571)
• September 10 – Johann Faulhaber, German mathematician (b. 1580)
• October 10 – Johann Ulrich Steigleder, German composer (b. 1593)
• October 24 – Wilhelm Schickard, German inventor (b. 1592)
• October 31 – Maria Amalia of Nassau-Dillenburg, German noble (b. 1582)
• November 5 – Jobst Herman, Count of Schaumburg (b. 1593)
• November 15 – Thomas Parr, English alleged oldest living man (b. 1483)
• November 25 – John Hall, English physician, son-in-law of William Shakespeare
• December 1 – Melchior Teschner, German cantor, composer and theologian (b. 1584)
• December 9 – Sophie of Saxony, Duchess of Pomerania (b. 1587)
• December 19 – Albrecht of Hanau-Münzenberg, German nobleman (b. 1579)
• December 23 – Henry II, Count of Reuss-Gera (b. 1572)
• December 25 – Samuel de Champlain, French explorer and founder of Quebec (b. c.1567)
• date unknown
  • Iravikkutti Pillai, Venad leader in India (b. 1603)
  • Urszula Meyerin, politically influential Polish courtier (b. 1570)
• probable – Anthony Shirley, English traveller (b. 1565)

 

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