1628

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1590s  1600s  1610s  – 1620s –  1630s  1640s  1650s
Years:	1625 1626 1627 – 1628 – 1629 1630 1631

1628 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1628 (MDCXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). It corresponds to 5388/5389 in the Hebrew Calendar.

Contents 1 Events of 1628 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 1.4 Ongoing 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Art in 1628 5 1628 in Fiction 6 1628 in Film

Events of 1628

January–June

• March 1 – Writs are issued in February by Charles I of England that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date.
• March 17 – Oliver Cromwell makes first appearance at Parliament as Member for Huntingdon.

July–December

• August 10 – The Swedish 64 gun sailing ship Vasa sinks on her maiden voyage in the Stockholm harbor.
• August 23 – George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham, is assassinated by John Felton.
• September 6 – Puritans settle Salem, which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• October 28 – The Siege of La Rochelle ends with the surrender of the Huguenots.

Undated

• Dutch East India Company vessel the Batavia (ship) is shipwrecked on its maiden voyage to the Indies. It became famous for the mutiny that occurred among survivors.
• Charles I reconvenes the English Parliament and accepts the Petition of Right as a concession to gain his subsidies.
• William Harvey publishes Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus, containing his findings about blood circulation.
• The Collegiate School, today the oldest educational institution in North America, is established.
• Shah Jahan becomes king of the Mughal Empire.
• Cardinal Richelieu becomes prime minister.
• War begins between France and Spain over Mantua.

Ongoing

• The Thirty Years' War (1618–1648).

Births

1628 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1628 MDCXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2381
Armenian calendar	1077 ԹՎ ՌՀԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-216 – -215
Bengali calendar	1035
Berber calendar	2578
Buddhist calendar	2172
Burmese calendar	990
Byzantine calendar	7136 – 7137
Chinese calendar	丁卯年十一月廿五日 (4264/4324-11-25) — to — 戊辰年十二月初七日 (4265/4325-12-7)
Coptic calendar	1344 – 1345
Ethiopian calendar	1620 – 1621
Hebrew calendar	5388 – 5389
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1684 – 1685
- Shaka Samvat	1550 – 1551
- Kali Yuga	4729 – 4730
Holocene calendar	11628
Iranian calendar	1006 – 1007
Islamic calendar	1037 – 1038
Japanese calendar	Kan'ei 5 (寛永5年)
Korean calendar	3961
Thai solar calendar	2171

• January 8 – François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg, French general (d. 1695)
• January 10 – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d. 1687)
• January 12 – Charles Perrault, French folklorist (d. 1703)
• March 10 – Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician (d. 1694)
• March 17 – François Girardon, French sculptor (d. 1715)
• April 23 – Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (d. 1704)
• May 17 – Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria, regent of the Tyrol (d. 1662)
• July 11 – Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (d. 1701)
• August 29 – John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)
• November 28 – John Bunyan, English writer (d. 1688)
• December 25 – Noël Coypel, French painter (d. 1707)
• probable – Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruysdael, celebrated Dutch landscape painter (d. 1682)

See also Category:1628 births.

Deaths

• March 12 – John Bull, English composer (b. c. 1562)
• March 29 – Tobias Matthew, Archbishop of York (b. 1546)
• June 8 – Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (b. 1547)
• July 13 – Robert Shirley, English adventurer (b. c. 1581)
• August 6 – Johannes Junius, Mayor of Bamberg (b. 1573)
• August 23 – George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (b. 1592)
• September 30 – Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English writer (b. 1554)
• October 16 – François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555)
• November 15 – Roque Gonzales, Paraguayan missionary (b. 1576)
• November 16 – Paolo Quagliati, Italian composer (b. c. 1555)
• Gregor Aichinger, German composer (b. c. 1565)

Art in 1628

Architecture

• Construction of the Taj Mahal begins in Agra in India. It will continue until 1650.

Painting

• Rembrandt, then 22 years of age, paints a cheerful self-portrait, which will be sold 380 years later, in 2008, for 4 and a half million dollars.

1628 in Fiction

The classic novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père takes place in 1628. The story includes fictionalized versions of actual historical events of this year, such as the siege of La Rochelle and the assassination of the Duke of Buckingham (see above).

The Angel's Command, a children's adventure novel by British writer Brian Jacques, also takes place in this year.

See also Category:1628 deaths.

1628 in Film

Film adaptations of The Three Musketeers that are faithful to the novel (e.g. the 1974 version) also are faithful to the historical events of the year. However, some movie versions leave the realm of history and enter the realm of fantasy.