What Happened In 1638 - Historical Events 1638

Historical Events for the Year 1638

28th February » The Scottish National Covenant is signed in Edinburgh.
22nd March » Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
29th March » Swedish colonists establish the first European settlement in Delaware, naming it New Sweden.
15th April » Tokugawa shogunate forces put down the Shimabara Rebellion when they retake Hara Castle from the rebels.

1st January » Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (d. 1685)
11th January » Nicolas Steno, Danish bishop and anatomist (d. 1686)
24th January » Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet (d. 1706)
14th March » Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (d. 1710)
15th March » Shunzhi Emperor of China (d. 1661)
28th March » Frederik Ruysch, Dutch botanist and anatomist (d. 1731)
13th May » Richard Simon (priest) known as Richard Simon, French priest (d. 1712)
10th July » David Teniers III, Flemish painter (d. 1685)
15th July » Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1693)
6th August » Nicolas Malebranche, French priest and philosopher (d. 1715)
5th September » Louis XIV of France (d. 1715)
10th September » Maria Theresa of Spain (d. 1683)
25th November » Catherine of Braganza (d. 1705)

21st January » Ignazio Donati, Italian composer (b. 1570)
27th January » Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses, Spanish author (b. 1585)
26th February » Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician and linguist (b. 1581)
7th April » Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese daimyo (b. 1576)
13th April » Henri, Duke of Rohan (b. 1579)
6th May » Cornelius Jansen, Dutch-French bishop (b. 1585)
25th June » Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Spanish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1602)
12th August » Johannes Althusius, German jurist and philosopher (b. 1557)
14th September » John Harvard (clergyman) known as John Harvard, English-American minister and philanthropist (b. 1607)
11th November » Cornelis van Haarlem, Dutch painter (b. 1562)
8th December » Ivan Gundulić, Croatian poet (b. 1589)