What Happened in August 1632

Historical Events

Capture of Maastricht

Aug 22 Prince Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange occupies Maastricht

Aug 28 Henry Casimir I appointed viceroy of Drenthe

Events in 1632

Famous Birthdays

Aug 2 Kaspar von Stieler, German poet (Teutsche Wolredner), born in Erfurt, Germany (d. 1707)
Aug 20 Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher, born in Bourges, France (d. 1704)

John Locke (1632-1704)

Aug 29 English empiricist philosopher; influential Enlightenment thinker and "Father of Liberalism" (Two Treatises of Government), born in Wrington, England

Born in 1632

Famous Deaths

Aug 20 Valentin de Boulogne, French painter, buried at 38
Aug 25 Thomas Dekker, English pamphleteer and dramatist dies at about 60 [his life was poorly documented, exact birth and death dates are uncertain]