History
1632
General
Population: 544 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Philip Massinger (comedy), Second Shakespeare folio published, Antonio Bosio (report on excavation of Roman catacombs),
John Davies (Welsh Dictionary), John Selden (English soverignty of the sea), Johann Angelus Werdenhagen (comparative governments)
Art includes Rembrandt "The Anatomy Lesson of Sr. Nicolaas Tulp",
- Religion: Monteverdi takes holy orders
- Science: Galileo writes about terrestrial double motion in Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
- Deaths: Imperial General Johann Tzerclaes (Count Tilly), Sigismund III of Poland, Dramatist Thomas Dekker, Poet Giovanni Battista Basile - fairy tales, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden
Americas
- English settlers in Antigua and Montserrat
Asia
- India: Shah Jahan begins building Taj Mahal, starts Mughal conquest of Deccan
Portuguese driven out of Bengal
Europe
- General: 30 Years' War - Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden takes Nuremberg and defeats Tilly of the HRE at the Lech – Tilly mortally wounded –
Gustavus enters Munich and attacks Wallenstrin at Nuremberg – defeats Wallenstrin at battle of Lützen and is killed in action
- England: Sir Francis Windebank made chief Secretary of State
Van Dyck made court painter to Charles I
First coffee shop opens in London
- France: Plague outbreak
- Holland: Leiden U observatory founded
- Poland: Sigismund III dies and Vladislav IV rules
- Russia: Fur trade center established in Yakutsk Siberia
- Sweden: End of reign of Gustavus Adolphus as Queen Christina rules (age 6) - Five regents under Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna
East
- Maryland: Charles I issues charter – named after Queen Henrietta Maria – under control of Lord Baltimore Cecil Calvert