History
1633
General
Population: 544 Million*
- Entertainment: Wirters include Abraham Cowley Poetical Blossoms, John Donne (posthumous poems), John Ford 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (tragedy),
Christopher Marlowe (tragedy), Philip Massinger (comedy), Edmund Spenser (books of Ireland posthumously), Descartes stops publishing in response to CHruch's attack on galileo
Art includes Jacques Callot "Les Grandes Miseres de la guerre", Rembrandt "Saskia", Jacob van Campen and Pieter Poet "Mauritshuls",
Van Dyck "Charles I"
- Science: Galileo forced by Inquisition to abjure the theories of Copernicus
- Deaths: Poet Georg Herbert, Diarist Samuel Pepys, Composer Jacopo Peri
Asia
- India: English trading post established at Bengal
- Japan: Rebuilding of Kiyomizuderi near Kyoto
Europe
- General: 30 Years' War - HRE leader Wallenstein invades Silesia – defeats Swedish army under Bernhard Duke of Saxe-Weimar at Steinau and goes into winter quarters in Bohemia
- England: Charles I revives forest eyre to raise money by fines
Firsts Baptist Church formed at Southwark London
Trial of the Lancashire witches
Reform of English postal service by Thomas Witherings
Wind sawmill erected near the Strand in London
- France: French army occupies Lorraine
- German States: Outbreak of plague in Bavaria leads to passion play vow in Oberammergau
Dresden Chapel closed
- Holy Roman Empire: Emperor Ferdinand II begins to suspect Wallenstrin of treachery
- Scotland: Charles I of England first visits Scotland and is crowned in Edinburgh
Royal Scots established as oldest regular regiment in British army
East
- Connecticut: Dutch start settlements - colony founded
- Maryland: Boats Ark and Dove sent to outer Maryland to trade with natives
- Massachusetts: Smallpox outbreak
Edward Winslow – governor of Plymouth army
John Cotton becomes religious leader in Boston