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Birth
1628 Birth, Marriage, Death in the UK 1628- 1628
- 1628
- 1628
1628
| 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 topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works
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Year 1628 (MDCXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). It corresponds to 5388/5389 in the Hebrew Calendar.
Contents
- 1 Events of 1628
- 1.1 January - June
- 1.2 July - December
- 1.3 Undated
- 1.4 Ongoing
- 2 Births
- 3 Deaths
- 4 Art in 1628
- 5 1628 in Fiction
- 6 1628 in Film
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- March 1 - Writs are issued in February 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.
- August 23 - George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham, is assassinated by John Felton.
- September 6 - Puritans settle Salem, which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- October 28 - The 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.
- William Harvey publishes Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus, containing his findings about blood circulation.
- The Collegiate School, today the oldest educational institution in North America, is established.
- Shah Jahan becomes king of the Mughal Empire.
- Cardinal Richelieu becomes prime minister.
- War begins between France and Spain over Mantua.
- The Thirty Years' War (1618-1648).
1628 in other calendars
| Gregorian calendar |
1628
MDCXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita |
2381 |
| Armenian calendar |
1077
ԹՎ ՌՀԷ |
| Bahá'í calendar |
-216 – -215 |
| Berber calendar |
2578 |
| Buddhist calendar |
2172 |
| Burmese calendar |
990 |
| Byzantine calendar |
7136 – 7137 |
| Chinese calendar |
丁卯年十一月廿五日
(4264/4324-11-25)
— to —
戊辰年十二月初七日
(4265/4325-12-7) |
| Coptic calendar |
1344 – 1345 |
| Ethiopian calendar |
1620 – 1621 |
| Hebrew calendar |
5388 – 5389 |
| Hindu calendars |
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| - Vikram Samvat |
1683 – 1684 |
| - Shaka Samvat |
1550 – 1551 |
| - Kali Yuga |
4729 – 4730 |
| Holocene calendar |
11628 |
| Iranian calendar |
1006 – 1007 |
| Islamic calendar |
1037 – 1038 |
| Japanese calendar |
Kan'ei 5
(寛永5年) |
| Korean calendar |
3961 |
| Thai solar calendar |
2171 |
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- January 8 - François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg, French general (d. 1695)
- January 10 - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d. 1687)
- January 12 - Charles Perrault, French folklorist (d. 1703)
- March 10 - Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician (d. 1694)
- March 17 - François Girardon, French sculptor (d. 1715)
- April 23 - Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (d. 1704)
- May 17 - Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria, regent of the Tyrol (d. 1662)
- July 11 - Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (d. 1701)
- August 29 - John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)
- November 28 - John Bunyan, English writer (d. 1688)
- December 25 - Noël Coypel, French painter (d. 1707)
- probable - Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruysdael, celebrated Dutch landscape painter (d. 1682)
- See also Category:1628 births.
- March 12 - John Bull, English composer (b. c. 1562)
- March 29 - Tobias Matthew, Archbishop of York (b. 1546)
- June 8 - Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (b. 1547)
- July 13 - Robert Shirley, English adventurer (b. c. 1581)
- August 6 - Johannes Junius, Mayor of Bamberg (b. 1573)
- August 23 - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (b. 1592)
- September 30 - Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English writer (b. 1554)
- October 16 - François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555)
- November 15 - Roque Gonzales, Paraguayan missionary (b. 1576)
- November 16 - Paolo Quagliati, Italian composer (b. c. 1555)
- Gregor Aichinger, German composer (b. c. 1565)
Architecture
- Construction of the Taj Mahal begins in Agra in India. It will continue until 1650.
Painting
- Rembrandt, then 22 years of age, paints a cheerful self-portrait, which will be sold 380 years later, in 2008, for 4 and a half million dollars.
The classic novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père takes place in 1628. The story includes fictionalized versions of actual historical events of this year, such as the siege of La Rochelle and the assassination of the Duke of Buckingham (see above).
The Angel's Command, a children's adventure novel by British writer Brian Jacques, also takes place in this year.
- See also Category:1628 deaths.
Film adaptations of The Three Musketeers that are faithful to the novel (e.g. the 1974 version) also are faithful to the historical events of the year. However, some movie versions leave the realm of history and enter the realm of fantasy.
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