1633

There is a novel by Eric Flint and David Weber called 1633 (a sequel to a book called 1632) about a town from West Virginia transported through a vortex to Germany during the Thirty Years' War. Sounds delightfully unrealistic!

But in the real world of actual history, what did happen in 1633?

At least, according to such reliable sources as Wikipedia and HistoryOrb...

It was the year of Galileo's trail before the Inquisition, and that he was forced by the Roman Catholic Church to recant his heliocentric view of the solar system.

A professorship in Arabic studies was founded at Cambridge University.

A Ming Dynasty fleet beat the Dutch East India Company at the island of Quemoy.

In Ethiopia the Emperor Fasilides expelled the Jesuit missionaries.

Shogun Tougawa Iemitsu outlawed Christianity in Japan and began a policy of extreme isolationism.

Events which appear to have happened in the general vicinity of what is now known as Germany:
  • Samuel de Champlain reclaimed his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu
  • Prince Frederik Henry appointed himself viceroy of Limburg
  • Sweden & Protestant German monarchy formed the Union of Heilbronn
  • Prince Frederik Henry conquerored fort Rhine at Cologne
It would be interesting to see if any or all of these events appear in the novel mentioned at the beginning of this post...

Finally, interesting deaths (or at least the deaths of interesting people):
  • Trijntje Keever, presumed to have been the tallest woman ever!
  • Meletius Smotrytsky, Ruthenian religious activist and author
  • Henry Cary, first Viscount Falkland
  • Archbishop George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Etienne Brule, French explorer
  • Jacopo Peri, Italian composer

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