1632

See also: 1632 (novel)

Events

• February 22 - Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published
• July 23 - 300 colonists for New France depart Dieppe
• November 8 - Wladyslaw IV Waza elected king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth after Zygmunt III Waza death
• November 16 - Battle of Lützen
• Fasildos succeeds his father Sissinios as Emperor of Ethiopia
• Christina becomes queen of Sweden; five regents, headed by Axel Oxenstierna, govern country.
• Antigua and Barbuda is first colonized by England
• Portuguese driven out of Bengal.
• Charles I of England issues charter for the colony of Maryland (named in honor of Henrietta Maria), under control of Lord Baltimore.
• Sir Francis Windebank made chief Secretary of State in England.
• University of Tartu in Estonia founded
• Yakutsk in Russia founded

Births

• January 8 - Samuel von Pufendorf, German jurist (d. 1694)
• January 29 - Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (d. 1703)
• 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)
• 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)

Deaths

• April 19 - Sigismund III Vasa, King of Poland, ex-King of Sweden (b. 1566)
• September 13 - Leopold V of Austria, regent of Tyrol (b. 1586)
• November 16 - Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden (killed in battle) (b. 1594)
• November 29 - Frederick V, Elector Palatine (b. 1596)
• December 7 - Emperor Sissinios of Ethiopia (b. 1607)