Today in History for Year 1633

Months in Year 1633: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 11 of 11

Feb 2nd - M Rossi's opera "Erminia sul Giordano," premieres in Rome
Feb 13th - Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun
Mar 1st - Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.
Mar 7th - Prince Frederik Henry appoints himself viceroy of Limburg
Apr 23rd - Sweden & Protestant German monarchy form Union of Heilbronn
Jun 2nd - Prince Frederik Henry conquerors fort Rhine at Cologne
Jun 20th - Charter for Maryland is given to Lord Cecil Baltimore
Jun 21st - Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to "abjure, curse, & detest" his Copernican heliocentric views
Jun 22nd - Galileo Galilei forced to recant Earth orbits Sun by Pope (on Oct 31, 1992, Vatican admits it was wrong)
Oct 8th - Massachusetts Bay Colony forms its 1st government
Oct 22nd - Ming dynasty fight with Dutch East India Company that Battle of southern Fujian sea (1633), Ming dynasty won great victory.

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 20 of 20

Jan 31st - Nathaniel Crew, English bishop (Durham)
Feb 1st - Gabriel Schutz, composer
Feb 20th - Jan de Baen, portrait painter/etcher
Feb 23rd - Samuel Pepys, London England, navy expert/composer (Diary, Memoirs)
Apr 10th - Werner Fabricius, composer
Apr 20th - Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (d. 1654)
May 21st - Joseph de La Barre, composer
Jun 1st - Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (d. 1687)
Jun 16th - Nathaniel Schnittelbach, composer
Jun 16th - Jean de Thévenot, French traveler and scientist (d. 1667)
Jun 19th - Philippus van Limborch, remonstrants theologist/vicar
Jul 1st - Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (d. 1698)
Sep 6th - Sebastian Knupfer, composer
Sep 8th - Ferdinand IV of Germany (d. 1654)
Oct 14th - James II Stuart, king of England/Scotland (James VII) (1685-88)
Nov 3rd - Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (d. 1714)
Nov 11th - George Savile, 1st marquis of Halifax/author (Character of a Trimmer)
Dec 18th - Adriaen Melar, Flemish engraver, baptised
Dec 18th - Willem van de Velde the Young, Dutch seascape painter, baptised
Dec 26th - Charles E Biset, Flemish painter, baptised

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 12 of 12

Mar 1st - George Herbert, English poet, dies at 39
Jul 12th - Simon Besler, composer, dies at 49
Jul 22nd - Trijntje Keever, presumed to have been the tallest woman ever (b.1616)
Aug 4th - George Abbott, English theologist/archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 60
Aug 12th - Jacopo Peri, Itallian opera composer, dies at 71
Sep 8th - Carlo Caraffa, Ital jesuit/religious order founder, dies at about 72
Oct 1st - Filaret, [Fjodor N Romanov], patriarch of Moscow, dies
Oct 26th - Horio Tadaharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1596)
Nov 7th - Cornelis Drebbel, physicist/chemist/inventor (submarine), dies
Nov 14th - William Ames, English philosopher (b. 1576)
Dec 1st - Isabella of Austria, infante of Spain/governess in Holland, dies at 67
Dec 18th - Theodoor Galle, Flemish engraver, buried at 62