1628

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
  • 1625
  • 1626
  • 1627
  • 1628
  • 1629
  • 1630
  • 1631
September 8: Dutch admiral Piet Hein captures the Spanish treasure fleet in the Battle in the Bay of Matanzas.
Henri Motte
from 1881.
1628 in various
Minguo calendar
284 before ROC
民前284年
Nanakshahi calendar160
Thai solar calendar2170–2171
Tibetan calendar阴火兔年
(female Fire-Rabbit)
1754 or 1373 or 601
    — to —
阳土龙年
(male Earth-Dragon)
1755 or 1374 or 602

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.

Events

January–March

  • January 19 – (26 Jumada al-Awwal 1037 A.H.) The reign of Salef-ud-din Muhammad Shahryar as the Mughal Emperor, Shahryar Mirza, comes to an end a little more than two months after the November 7 death of his father, Jahangir, as Sharyar's older brother, Shihab defeats him in battle. Prince Shihab-ud-Din Muhammad Khurram takes the name Shah Jahan and sentences Shahryar and other members of the court to death.
  • January 23 – After being incarcerated and blinded on orders of his brother, former Mughal Emperor Shahryar Mirza is put to death, along with his nephews, co-ruler Dawar Bakhsh, and Princes Garshasp, Tahmuras and Hoshang.
  • February 3 – In what is now the South American nation of Chile, the indigenous Mapuche lay siege to the Spanish colonial settlement of Nacimiento. The Spanish captain and a force of 40 men are able to hold out until reinforcements arrive two days later, but the attackers take muskets and two cannons.
  • February 5 – The Chongzhen Era begins in Ming dynasty China after the October 2 ascension of Zhu Youjian, the Chongzhen Emperor, on the first day of the Chinese New Year, and the Tianqi era formally ends.
  • February 10 – King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden issues an order bringing an end to the "foolishness and insanity" ("dårskap och galenskap") of religious visionary Margareta i Kumla, prohibiting Swedes from making pilgrimages to see her on pain of imprisonment, and threatening her with incarceration if she continues to preach about her visions from the angels.
  • February 14 – The coronation of Shah Jahan as ruler of the Mughal Empire takes place in Agra.
  • ship tax
    by this date.
  • March 17Oliver Cromwell makes his first appearance in the English Parliament, as Member for Huntingdon.

April–June

July–September

October–December

Date unknown

  • The
    Duke of Nevers
    , who is supported by France.
  • blood circulation
    .
  • Publication of Sir Edward Coke's Institutes of the Lawes of England begins with A Commentary upon Littleton. This will remain an influential legal text on both sides of the Atlantic for three centuries.
  • The Collegiate School, the oldest surviving educational institution in the United States, is established.
  • The first black slaves arrive in Dutch Manhattan.

Births

Claire-Clémence de Maillé-Brézé
Marcello Malpighi
Marek Sobieski
Úrsula Micaela Morata

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Probable

Deaths

George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

References

  1. ^ The Cambridge Modern History, Volume IV: The Thirty Years's War (The University Press, Cambridge, 1906) pp. 107-108
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