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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.

Famous Birthdays in 1638

• 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)

Famous Deaths in History for 1638

• 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)

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