1635

For the novel co-authored by Eric Flint, see 1635: The Cannon Law.

Year 1635 (MDCXXXV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1635

January – June

• February 10 — The Académie française in Paris is expanded to become a national academy for the artistic elite.
• April 13 — Maronite warlord Fah-al-Din II executed in Constantinople.
• May 30 — Peace of Prague (1635) (30 Years War).

July – December

• August 25 — The Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635 struck Narragansett Bay as a possible Category 3 hurricane: it killed 46+ people.
• October 9 — Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he spoke 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.

Undated

• Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
• Martinique is settled by France.
• Dominica is claimed by France.
• Franco-Swedish treaty of alliance signed by Cardinal Richelieu and Axel Oxenstierna.
• The Ottomans are expelled from Yemen.
• Colonization of Connecticut begins.
• Nagyszombat University (predecessor of Budapest University) is established.
• The speed limit for the Hackney carriage in London is set at 3 mph (5 km/h).
• Boston Latin School, the oldest school in the United States of America, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.
• Swedish intervention ends.
• France declares war on Spain.
• Japan forbids merchants to travel abroad under penalty of death.
• 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."
• Liu Tong of the late Ming Dynasty in China writes a book for new art connoisseurs; he tells his readers various ways to spot a fake and authentic pieces of art. He revealed that a Xuande era (1426–1435) bronzework could be authenticated if one knew how to judge its sheen; porcelain wares from the Yongle era (1402–1424) could be judged authentic by their thickness.

Births

• January 8 — Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish Archbishop of Toledo (d. 1709)
• January 13 — Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (d. 1705)
• February 1 — Marquard Gude, German archaeologist (d. 1689)
• February 18 — Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (d. 1680)
• June 3 — Philippe Quinault, French writer (d. 1688)
• July 18 — Robert Hooke, English scientist (d. 1703)
• August 24 — Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (d. 1699)
• 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)

See also Category:1635 births.

Deaths

• March — Thomas Randolph, poet
• March 27 — Robert Naunton, English politician (b. 1563)
• July 10 — Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo, novelist and dramatist (b. c. 1580)
• 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, Alleged oldest living man (b. 1483)
• December 25 — Samuel de Champlain, French explorer and founder of Quebec (born c.1567)
• date unknown
  • John Hall, son-in-law of William Shakespeare
  • Iravikkutti Pillai, Venad leader (born 1603)
• probable — Anthony Shirley, traveller (born 1565)

See also Category:1635 deaths.

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