Earth seen from the surface of the Moon
In the year 1634, Belgian scientist Jan Baptist van Helmont is interrogated by the Spanish Inquisition and put on house arrest for his experiments into plant growth (Mar), Leonard Calvert arrives in Maryland, establishing St. Mary’s and an institution of higher learning which later becomes Georgetown University (May 25), Curaçao is captured by the Dutch, Johannes Kepler’s Somnium - fictional account of the view from the moon - is published posthumously by his son - and all these fine people were born:
1634-0101 Fleetwood Sheppard* courtier/ literary wit/poet - Oxfordshire, England (1698/64)
1634-0116 Dorothe Engelbretsdatter* author/feminist - Bergen, Norway (1716/82)
1634-0205 Maria Antonia Scalera Stellini* Italian poet/playwright - Acquaviva delle Fonti, (1704/70)
1634-0207 Robert Robartes* diplomat/politician - England (1682/58)
1634-0304 Kazimierz Łyszczyński* nobleman/philosopher executed for atheism - Łyszczyce, Poland (1689/55)
1634-0312 Cornelis Kick (B) painter - Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (1681/47)
1634-0320 Balthasar Bekker* Dutch minister/author/wrote against the witchcraft persecutions - Metslawier (1698/64)
1634-0326 Domenico Freschi* Roman Catholic priest/composer - Bassano del Grappa (1710/76)
1634-0403 Stanisław Jan Jabłonowski* nobleman/Grand Guardian of the Crown - Łucza, Kingdom of Poland (1702/68)
1634-0414 John Reresby* nobleman/ politician/diarist - Thrybergh, Yorkshire,England (1689/55)
1634-0425 Robert Montagu (B) nobleman/ courtier/politician - Westminster, England (1683/48)
1634-0504 Katherine Ferrers* gentlewoman/ heiress/highwaywoman? - Bayford, Hertfordshire, England (1660/26)
1634-0508 Alexander Stuart (B) nobleman/politician - Darnaway Castle, Scotland (1701/67)
1634-0601 Roeloff Swartwout* landowner/ early settler of New Netherland/founder of Kingston and Hurley - Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (1715/80)
1634-0614 Nathaniel Bond* lawyer - Creech Grange, in the Isle of Purbeck, England (1707/73)
1634-0627 Andreas Cleyer* German physician/botanist/Japanologist - Kassel (c.1698/63)
1634-0714 Pasquier Quesnel* Jansenist theologian - Paris, Kingdom of France (1719/85)
1634-0723 John Hoskyns* nobleman/ lawyer - Herefordshire, England (1705/71)
1634-0812 Adam Colonia* Dutch painter/active in London - Rotterdam (1685/51)
1634-0824 Mary Eastey* victim of the Salem witch trials - Great Yarmouth, England (1692/58)
1634-0831 Paul Amman* German physician/botanist - Breslau, Holy Roman Empire (1691/56)
1634-0904 Robert South* churchman known for his combative preaching - London, England (1716/81)
1634-0906 Thomas Tryon* sugar merchant/author of popular self-help books/animal rights and vegetarianism activist - Bibury, Gloucestershire, England (1703/68)
1634-1010 Jan van Neck* Dutch painter/ engraver/interior decorator - Naarden (1714/79)
1634-1018 Luca Giordano* Italian painter/printmaker - Naples, Kingdom of Naples (1705/70)
1634-1106 Giuseppe Ghezzi* Italian painter - Comunanza, Papal States (1721/86)
1634-1127 Roger Toothaker* physician/accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials/to America as infant - England (1692/57)
1634-1215 Thomas Kingo* bishop/ poet/hymn-writer - Slangerup, Denmark-Norway (1703/68)
1634-1223 Mariana of Austria* queen consort of her uncle Philip IV of Spain/regent - Wiener Neustadt, Archduchy of Austria (1696/61)
1634-1231 Hotta Masatoshi* 堀田 正俊 daimyō/top government official in the Tokugawa shogunate - Japan (1684/49)
Updated 22.11.2021
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