Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades: 1580s 1590s 1600s 1610s 1620s - 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s 1680s
Years: 1628 1629 1630 1631 1632 - 1633 - 1634 1635 1636 1637 1638
Events
- February 13 - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
- Galileo Galilei is forced to recant his heliocentric views. Eppur si muove.
- Foreign missionaries are expelled from Ethiopia by Negus Fasilidas.
- February 23 - Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist.
- October 14 - Prince James Stuart, later King James II of England and Ireland and King James VII of Scotland.
- Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan
- August 5 - Archbishop George Abbot, archbishop of Canterbury
- August 12 - Jacopo Peri, Italian composer\n