1635

This article is about the year 1635. For the novel by Eric Flint, see 1635: The Cannon Law.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1600s  1610s  1620s  – 1630s –  1640s  1650s  1660s
Years:	1632 1633 1634 – 1635 – 1636 1637 1638

1635 by topic:

Arts and Science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1635 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1635 MDCXXXV
Ab urbe condita	2388
Armenian calendar	1084 ԹՎ ՌՁԴ
Assyrian calendar	6385
Bengali calendar	1042
Berber calendar	2585
English Regnal year	10 Cha. 1 – 11 Cha. 1
Buddhist calendar	2179
Burmese calendar	997
Byzantine calendar	7143–7144
Chinese calendar	甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 4331 or 4271     — to — 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 4332 or 4272
Coptic calendar	1351–1352
Discordian calendar	2801
Ethiopian calendar	1627–1628
Hebrew calendar	5395–5396
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1691–1692
- Shaka Samvat	1557–1558
- Kali Yuga	4736–4737
Holocene calendar	11635
Igbo calendar	635–636
Iranian calendar	1013–1014
Islamic calendar	1044–1045
Japanese calendar	Kan'ei 12 (寛永１２年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3968
Minguo calendar	277 before ROC 民前277年
Thai solar calendar	2177–2178

1635 (MDCXXXV) was a common year starting on Monday (dominical letter G) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday (dominical letter D) of the Julian calendar, the 1635th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 635th year of the 2nd millennium, the 35th year of the 17th century, and the 6th year of the 1630s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1635 is 10 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

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 – Maronite 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 – 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 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 Jakob Spener, German theologian (d. 1705)
• January 25 – Daniel Casper von Lohenstein (d. 1683)
• February 1 – Marquard Gude, German archaeologist (d. 1689)
• February 2 – William Godolphin (diplomat), 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 (d. 1702)
• March 2 – Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons, Italian noble (d. 1673)
• March 4 – Emilia Butler, Countess of Ossory (d. 1688)
• March 15 – Sulaiman Shikoh, Mughal Empire emperor (d. 1662)
• March 31 – Patrick Gordon, Russian general and rear admiral (d. 1699)
• April 16 – Frans van Mieris the Elder, Dutch painter (d. 1681)
• April 17 – Edward Stillingfleet, British bishop (d. 1699)
• April 25 – William Harbord (politician), 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 20 – Patrick Chaworth, 3rd Viscount Chaworth, Irish politician (d. 1693)
• July 13 – Jacques Bruyas (d. 1712)
• July 18 – Robert Hooke, English scientist (d. 1703)
• July 19 – Francine Descartes (d. 1640)
• July 23 – Adam Dollard des Ormeaux (d. 1660)
• July 29 – Christian Louis, Count of Waldeck (d. 1706)
• August 9 – Philip Traherne, British book collector (d. 1686)
• August 24 – Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (d. 1699)
• 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 17 – Peter Colleton, English politician (d. 1694)
• September 18 – Joana, Princess of Beira, Portuguese prince (d. 1653)
• October 7 – Roger de Piles, French painter (d. 1709)
• October 7 – Christopher Comstock, American settler (d. 1702)
• October 28 – Constantin Ranst de Jonge, Dutch colonial governor (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, Member of Parliament of England (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, Philosopher, theologian (d. 1697)
• December 23 – Ottaviano Jannella, Italian artist (d. 1661)
• December 28 – Elizabeth Stuart, second daughter of King Charles I of England (d. 1650)
• December 31 – Robert Southwell (diplomat), English diplomat (d. 1702)

Deaths

• March – Thomas Randolph, poet
• March 27 – Robert Naunton, English politician (b. 1563)
• 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 27 – Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1562)
• September 6 – Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (b. 1571)
• November 15 – Thomas Parr, English alleged oldest living man (b. 1483)
• November 25 – John Hall, English physician, son-in-law of William Shakespeare
• December 25 – Samuel de Champlain, French explorer and founder of Quebec (b. c.1567)
• date unknown – Iravikkutti Pillai, Venad leader (b. 1603)
• probable – Anthony Shirley, English traveller (b. 1565)