Major Events
- Jan 3 Dutch Premier Van Joost speaks of "Hostage rights of Aemstel"
- Jan 3 Schouwburg Theater, the 1st in Amsterdam, opens
- Jan 5 Petition in Recife Brazil leads to closing of their 2 synagogues
- Feb 28 Scottish Presbyterians sign National Convent, Greyfriars, Edinburgh
- Mar 3 Duke Bernard of Saxe-Weimar occupies Rheinfelden
- Mar 22 Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Mar 29 1st permanent white settlement in Delaware (Swedish Lutherans)
- May 7 Cornelis S Goyer takes possession of Mauritius (uninhabited)
- May 12 Emperor Shah Jahan commissions construction of the Red Fort at Shahjahanabad, Mughal Empire (now Dehli, India)
- May 13 Construction of the Red Fort begins at Shahjahanabad, Mughal Empire (now Dehli, India)
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Who Died in 1638
- Jan 21 Ignazio Donati, Italian composer (c. 1570)
- Jan 27 Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses, Spanish novelist
- Feb 28 Claude Gaspard Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician and poet, dies at 56
- Feb 28 Henri duc de Rohan, French soldier and Huguenot leader, dies
- Mar 8 Jacob C van Neck, admiral/mayor of Amsterdam, dies at about 73
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Rembrandt van Rijn
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