1634
Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th centuryDecades: 1580s 1590s 1600s 1610s 1620s - 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s 1680s
Years: 1629 1630 1631 1632 1633 - 1634 - 1635 1636 1637 1638 1639
Events
- Moses Amyraut's Traite de la predestination is published
- Curaçao captured by the Dutch
- Treaty of Polianovska
- First meeting of the Académie française
- The witchcraft affair at Loudun
- Jean Nicolet lands at Green Bay, Wisconsin
- Opening of Covent Garden Market in London
- English establish a settlement at Cochin, now Kochi on Malabar coast
- University of Utrecht founded
- First decennial performance of the Oberammergau Passion Plays
- March 1 - Battle at Smolensk, King Ladislaus IV of Poland defeats Russian army.
- March 25 - The first settlers arrive in Maryland (led by Lord Baltimore)
- September 5 and September 6 - Battle of Nördlingen (1634) results in Catholic victory
- March 18 - Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette - French novellist (d.1693)
- March 20 - Balthasar Bekker - German theologian and philosopher (d. 1698)
- June 20 - Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy
- December 15 - Thomas Kingo - Danish poet (d.1703)
- Adam Krieger - German composer (d. 1666)
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier - French composer
- Johann Aldringer - Austrian soldier.
- Adriano Banchieri, composer
- John Marston - English dramatist (b.1576)
- February 25 - Albrecht von Wallenstein - politician, assassinated (b.1583)
- May 12 - George Chapman - English author (b.1559)
- May 15 - Hendrick Avercamp - Dutch painter of winter scenes
