1632
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 16th century – 17th century – 18th century |
| Decades: | 1600s 1610s 1620s – 1630s – 1640s 1650s 1660s |
| Years: | 1629 1630 1631 – 1632 – 1633 1634 1635 |
| 1632 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – |
| Art – Literature – Music – Science |
| Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Births – Deaths – Works |
- For the novel, see 1632 (novel).
Year 1632 (MDCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
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Events of 1632
January–June
- February 22 – Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
- March 29 – The Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed, returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.
- April 15 – Thirty Years' War – Battle of Rain: The Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire.
- June 25 – Susenyos' son, Emperor Fasilides, declares the state religion of Ethiopia to again be Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, and expels the Jesuit missionaries and other Europeans.
July–December
- July 23 – Three hundred colonists for New France depart Dieppe.
- November 6 (O.S.) – Thirty Years' War – Battle of Lützen – King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden is killed. Unbeknownst to everybody in Stockholm, his daughter Christina becomes queen after her father's death. When the news reaches Stockholm, she is made queen, while five regents, headed by Axel Oxenstierna, govern the country since she is underage.
- November 8 – Wladyslaw IV Waza is elected king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth after Sigismund III Vasa's death.
Undated
Fasilides' castle in Gondar, Amhara Region.
- Fasilides succeeds his father Susenyos as Emperor of Ethiopia.
- Antigua and Barbuda is first colonized by England.
- The Portuguese driven out of Bengal.
- Charles I of England issues a charter for the colony of Maryland (named in honor of Henrietta Maria), under the control of Lord Baltimore.
- Sir Francis Windebank is made the chief Secretary of State in England.
- The University of Tartu is founded in Estonia.
- Yakutsk, Russia is founded.
- King Władysław IV Vasa of Poland forbids antisemitic books and printings.
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1632 MDCXXXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2385 |
| Armenian calendar | 1081 ԹՎ ՌՁԱ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -212 – -211 |
| Bengali calendar | 1039 |
| Berber calendar | 2582 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2176 |
| Burmese calendar | 994 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7140 – 7141 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛未年閏十一月初十日 (4268/4328-intercalary 11-10) — to —
壬申年十一月二十日(4269/4329-11-20) |
| Coptic calendar | 1348 – 1349 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1624 – 1625 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5392 – 5393 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 1688 – 1689 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1554 – 1555 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4733 – 4734 |
| Holocene calendar | 11632 |
| Iranian calendar | 1010 – 1011 |
| Islamic calendar | 1041 – 1042 |
| Japanese calendar | Kan'ei 9 (寛永9年) |
| Korean calendar | 3965 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2175 |
- January 8 – Samuel von Pufendorf, German jurist (d. 1694)
- January 29 – Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (d. 1703)
- March 27 – Gustav Adolf, Regent of Nassau-Saarbrücken (d. 1677)
- May 8 – Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming, German field marshal and Governor of Berlin (d. 1706)
- June 10 – Esprit Fléchier, French writer and Bishop of Nîmes (d. 1710)
- August 20 – Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (d. 1704)
- August 29 – John Locke, English philosopher (d. 1704)
- October 20 – Sir Christopher Wren, English architect, astronomer, and mathematician (d. 1723)
- October 24 – Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (d. 1723)
- October 31 – Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter (d. 1675)
- November 23 – Jean Mabillon, French palaeographer and diplomat (d. 1707)
- November 24 – Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (d. 1677)
- November 28 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French composer (d. 1687)
- December 17 – Anthony Wood, English antiquarian (d. 1695)
- See also Category:1632 births.
Deaths
- January 31 – Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (b. 1552)
- April 19 – Sigismund III Vasa, King of Sweden (1592–1599) and Poland (1587–1632) (b. 1566)
- April 30 – Johan Tzerclaes, Count of Tilly, Bavarian general (b. 1559)
- May 24 – Robert Hues, English mathematician and geographer (b. 1553)
- May 25 – Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1572)
- June 22 – James Whitelocke, English judge (b. 1570)
- August 25 – Thomas Dekker, English dramatist (b. c.1572)
- September 13 – Leopold V of Austria, regent of Tyrol (b. 1586)
- October 12 – Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1549)
- October 30 – Henri II de Montmorency, French naval officer and Governor of Languedoc (b. 1595)
- November 16 – King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (in battle) (b. 1594)
- November 17 – Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (b. 1594)
- November 27 – John Eliot, English statesman (b. 1592)
- November 29 – Frederick V, Elector Palatine (b. 1596)
- December 7 – Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia (b. 1607)
- December 8 – Philippe van Lansberge, Flemish astronomer (b. 1561)
- date unknown – Domhnall Spainnach MacMurrough-Kavanagh, last de facto King of Leinster
- See also Category:1632 deaths.