- For the novel co-authored by Eric Flint, see 1635: The Cannon Law.
Year 1635 (MDCXXXV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). [edit] Events of 1635 [edit] January–June [edit] July–December [edit] Undated - Guadeloupe and Martinique are colonized by France.
- Dominica is claimed by France.
- The Ottomans are expelled from Yemen.
- Nagyszombat University (predecessor of Budapest University) is established.
- Boston Latin School, the oldest school in the United States of America, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.
- Japan forbids merchants to travel abroad under penalty of death.
- A Japanese imperial memorandum decrees: "Hereafter entry by the Portuguese galeota is forbidden. If they insist on coming, the ships must be destroyed and anyone aboard those ships must be beheaded."
[edit] Ongoing [edit] Births - January 8—Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish Archbishop of Toledo (d. 1709)
- January 13—Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (d. 1705)
- February 1—Marquard Gude, German archaeologist (d. 1689)
- February 18—Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (d. 1680)
- June 3—Philippe Quinault, French writer (d. 1688)
- July 18—Robert Hooke, English scientist (d. 1703)
- August 24—Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (d. 1699)
- November 22—Francis Willughby, English biologist (d. 1672)
- November 27—Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France (d. 1719)
[edit] Deaths - March—Thomas Randolph, poet
- March 27—Robert Naunton, English politician (b. 1563)
- July 10—Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo, novelist and dramatist (b. c. 1580)
- August 7—Friedrich von Spee, German writer (b. 1591)
- August 27—Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1562)
- September 6—Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (b. 1571)
- November 15—Thomas Parr, alleged oldest living man (b. 1483)
- November 25—John Hall, son-in-law of William Shakespeare
- December 25—Samuel de Champlain, French explorer and founder of Quebec (b. c.1567)
- date unknown
- probable—Anthony Shirley, traveller (b. 1565)
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