1628

1628 (MDCXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1628th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 628th year of the 2nd millennium, the 28th year of the 17th century, and the 9th year of the 1620s decade. As of the start of 1628, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1590s  1600s  1610s  – 1620s –  1630s  1640s  1650s
Years:	1625 1626 1627 – 1628 – 1629 1630 1631

1628 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1628 MDCXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2381
Armenian calendar	1077 ԹՎ ՌՀԷ
Assyrian calendar	6378
Balinese saka calendar	1549–1550
Bengali calendar	1035
Berber calendar	2578
English Regnal year	3 Cha. 1 – 4 Cha. 1
Buddhist calendar	2172
Burmese calendar	990
Byzantine calendar	7136–7137
Chinese calendar	丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 4324 or 4264     — to — 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 4325 or 4265
Coptic calendar	1344–1345
Discordian calendar	2794
Ethiopian calendar	1620–1621
Hebrew calendar	5388–5389
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1684–1685
- Shaka Samvat	1549–1550
- Kali Yuga	4728–4729
Holocene calendar	11628
Igbo calendar	628–629
Iranian calendar	1006–1007
Islamic calendar	1037–1038
Japanese calendar	Kan'ei 5 (寛永５年)
Javanese calendar	1549–1550
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3961
Minguo calendar	284 before ROC 民前284年
Nanakshahi calendar	160
Thai solar calendar	2170–2171
Tibetan calendar	མེ་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Fire-Hare) 1754 or 1373 or 601     — to — ས་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Dragon) 1755 or 1374 or 602

Events

• March 1 – writs were issued in February 1628 by Charles I of England that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date.
• August 10 – The Swedish 64 gun sailing ship Vasa sinks on her maiden voyage in the Stockholm harbor
• September 6 – Puritans settle Salem which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• October 28–Siege of La Rochelle ends with the surrender of the Huguenots.
• Charles I reconvenes the English Parliament and accepts the Petition of Right as a concession to gain his subsidies.
• Island of Santorini explodes.
• John Felton assassinates George Villiers, duke of Buckingham.
• William Harvey publishes his findings about blood circulation.
• The Collegiate School, today the oldest educational institution in North America, is established.
• Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus, by William Harvey, is published.