1634

1634 (MDCXXXIV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1634th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 634th year of the 2nd millennium, the 34th year of the 17th century, and the 5th year of the 1630s decade. As of the start of 1634, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

1634 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1634 MDCXXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2387
Armenian calendar	1083 ԹՎ ՌՁԳ
Assyrian calendar	6384
Balinese saka calendar	1555–1556
Bengali calendar	1041
Berber calendar	2584
English Regnal year	9 Cha. 1 – 10 Cha. 1
Buddhist calendar	2178
Burmese calendar	996
Byzantine calendar	7142–7143
Chinese calendar	癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 4330 or 4270     — to — 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 4331 or 4271
Coptic calendar	1350–1351
Discordian calendar	2800
Ethiopian calendar	1626–1627
Hebrew calendar	5394–5395
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1690–1691
- Shaka Samvat	1555–1556
- Kali Yuga	4734–4735
Holocene calendar	11634
Igbo calendar	634–635
Iranian calendar	1012–1013
Islamic calendar	1043–1044
Japanese calendar	Kan'ei 11 (寛永１１年)
Javanese calendar	1555–1556
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3967
Minguo calendar	278 before ROC 民前278年
Nanakshahi calendar	166
Thai solar calendar	2176–2177
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Water-Bird) 1760 or 1379 or 607     — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Wood-Dog) 1761 or 1380 or 608

Events

• February 24-25 – Rebellious soldiers kill Albrecht von Wallenstein
• March 1 – Battle at Smolensk, King Ladislaus IV of Poland defeats Russian army.
• March 25 – The first settlers arrive in St. Mary's City, Maryland (led by Lord Baltimore), the fourth permanent settlement in British North America.
• August 18 – Urbain Grandier, a priest accused of sorcery, burned alive in Loudun, France.
• September 5 and September 6 – Battle of Nördlingen (1634) results in Catholic victory

• Moses Amyraut's Traite de la predestination is published
• Curaçao captured by the Dutch
• Treaty of Polianovska
• First meeting of the Académie française
• Jean Nicolet lands at Green Bay, Wisconsin
• Opening of Covent Garden Market in London
• English establish a settlement at Cochin, now Kochi on Malabar coast
• First decennial performance of the Oberammergau Passion Plays
• Oxford University Press receives its charter and becomes the second of the privileged presses

Deaths

• April 28– Urbain Grandier