1634

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[edit] Events

  • February 24-25 - Rebellious soldiers kill Albrecht von Wallenstein
  • March 1 - Battle at Smolensk, King Ladislaus IV of Poland defeats Russian army.
  • March 25 - The first settlers arrive in St. Mary's City, Maryland (led by Lord Baltimore), the fourth permanent settlement in British North America.
  • August 18 - Urbain Grandier, a priest accused of sorcery, burned alive in Loudun, France.
  • September 5 and September 6 - Battle of Nördlingen (1634) results in Catholic victory
  • Moses Amyraut's Traite de la predestination is published
  • Curaçao captured by the Dutch
  • Treaty of Polianovska
  • First meeting of the Académie française
  • Jean Nicolet lands at Green Bay, Wisconsin
  • Opening of Covent Garden Market in London
  • English establish a settlement at Cochin, now Kochi on Malabar coast
  • First decennial performance of the Oberammergau Passion Plays
  • Oxford University Press receives its charter and becomes the second of the privileged presses

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