This article is about the year 1634 in the 1632 series .
Events[]
January[]
- Date unknown: Massacre on the English Channel
February[]
- Embassy from the United States of Europe arrives in Venice
- Thomas Wentworth and William Laud imprisoned in the Tower of London
- The United Equatorial Company's expedition arrives on the "Wild Coast" of South America, and establishes the colony of Gustavus.
Spring[]
- Raid on the Wietze oil fields
- Battle of Mecklenburg Bay/Battle of Luebeck Bay
- Escape from the Tower
- Japan takes Manila from the Spanish.
March[]
- Siege of Ingolstadt begins
May[]
- Battle of Ahrensbök.
- Battle of Copenhagen
- "First Fleet" carrying Japanese karishitan (Christians) to California leaves Japan.
June[]
July[]
- Assassination attempt by Michel Ducos against Pope Urban VIII at the Galileo trial. It ultimately fails.
- Pope Urban VIII pardons Galileo.
- Lawrence Mazzare named Cardinal-Protector of the United States of Europe.
August[]
- Russians retake Rzhev; possible first use of breech-loading cannons of any size.
September[]
- Siege of Ingolstadt ends. The city is taken by Johan Banér after being betrayed by Johann Philipp Cratz von Scharffenstein.
- Japanese "First Fleet" arrives in Monterey Bay, California.
- Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor lifts the Edict of Restitution on his deathbed and passes away shortly afterwards.
Date unknown[]
- Don Fernando declares himself "King in the Netherlands".
- Don Fernando marries Maria Anna of Austria
- By winter of this year the Committees of Correspondence had established a small number of groups operating within Russia.
Deaths[]
- Quentin Underwood
- Toby Snell
- Henrietta Maria, queen consort of England, Scotland and Ireland.
- Janusz Radziwiłł, Lithuanian noble and magnate
- Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor