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Millennium: 2nd millennium
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September 8: Dutch admiral Piet Hein captures the Spanish treasure fleet in the Battle in the Bay of Matanzas.
October 28: Cardinal Richelieu at the siege of La Rochelle. Painting by Henri Motte from 1881.
1628 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1628
MDCXXVIII
Ab urbe condita2381
Armenian calendar1077
ԹՎ ՌՀԷ
Assyrian calendar6378
Balinese saka calendar1549–1550
Bengali calendar1035
Berber calendar2578
English Regnal yearCha. 1 – 4 Cha. 1
Buddhist calendar2172
Burmese calendar990
Byzantine calendar7136–7137
Chinese calendar丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit)
4325 or 4118
    — to —
戊辰年 (Earth Dragon)
4326 or 4119
Coptic calendar1344–1345
Discordian calendar2794
Ethiopian calendar1620–1621
Hebrew calendar5388–5389
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1684–1685
 - Shaka Samvat1549–1550
 - Kali Yuga4728–4729
Holocene calendar11628
Igbo calendar628–629
Iranian calendar1006–1007
Islamic calendar1037–1038
Japanese calendarKan'ei 5
(寛永5年)
Javanese calendar1549–1550
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3961
Minguo calendar284 before ROC
民前284年
Nanakshahi calendar160
Thai solar calendar2170–2171
Tibetan calendar阴火兔年
(female Fire-Rabbit)
1754 or 1373 or 601
    — to —
阳土龙年
(male Earth-Dragon)
1755 or 1374 or 602

1628 (MDCXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1628th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 628th year of the 2nd millennium, the 28th year of the 17th century, and the 9th year of the 1620s decade. As of the start of 1628, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

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January–March

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  • January 19 – (26 Jumada al-Awwal 1037 A.H.) The reign of Salef-ud-din Muhammad Shahryar as the Mughal Emperor, Shahryar Mirza, comes to an end a little more than two months after the November 7 death of his father, Jahangir, as Sharyar's older brother, Shihab defeats him in battle. Prince Shihab-ud-Din Muhammad Khurram takes the name Shah Jahan and sentences Shahryar and other members of the court to death.
  • January 23 – After being incarcerated and blinded on orders of his brother, former Mughal Emperor Shahryar Mirza is put to death, along with his nephews, co-ruler Dawar Bakhsh, and Princes Garshasp, Tahmuras and Hoshang.
  • February 3 – In what is now the South American nation of Chile, the indigenous Mapuche lay siege to the Spanish colonial settlement of Nacimiento. The Spanish captain and a force of 40 men are able to hold out until reinforcements arrive two days later, but the attackers take muskets and two cannons.
  • February 5 – The Chongzhen Era begins in Ming dynasty China after the October 2 ascension of Zhu Youjian, the Chongzhen Emperor, on the first day of the Chinese New Year, and the Tianqi era formally ends.
  • February 10 – King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden issues an order bringing an end to the "foolishness and insanity" ("dårskap och galenskap") of religious visionary Margareta i Kumla, prohibiting Swedes from making pilgrimages to see her on pain of imprisonment, and threatening her with incarceration if she continues to preach about her visions from the angels.
  • February 14 – The coronation of Shah Jahan as ruler of the Mughal Empire takes place in Agra.
  • March 1 – Writs issued in February, by King Charles I, require every county in England (not just seaport towns) to pay ship tax by this date.
  • March 17Oliver Cromwell makes his first appearance in the English Parliament, as Member for Huntingdon.

April–June

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July–September

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October–December

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Date unknown

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Births

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Claire-Clémence de Maillé-Brézé
Marcello Malpighi
Marek Sobieski
Úrsula Micaela Morata

January–March

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April–June

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July–September

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October–December

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Probable

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Deaths

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George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

References

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  1. ^ The Cambridge Modern History, Volume IV: The Thirty Years's War (The University Press, Cambridge, 1906) pp. 107-108
  2. ^ Mortimer Jerome Adler (1971). Webster's Guide to American History: A Chronological, Geographical, and Biographical Survey and Compendium. Merriam-Webster. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-87779-081-5.
  3. ^ Mack P. Holt (October 19, 1995). The French Wars of Religion, 1562-1629. Cambridge University Press. p. 186. ISBN 978-0-521-35873-6.
  4. ^ Jane Bingham (1988). Writers for Children: Critical Studies of Major Authors Since the Seventeenth Century. Scribner's. p. 431. ISBN 978-0-684-18165-3.
  5. ^ Edwin Clarke; Charles Donald O'Malley (1996). The Human Brain and Spinal Cord: A Historical Study Illustrated by Writings from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century. Norman Publishing. p. 416. ISBN 978-0-930405-25-0.
  6. ^ Samuel J. Rogal (1991). Calendar of Literary Facts: A Daily and Yearly Guide to Noteworthy Events in World Literature from 1450 to the Present. Gale Research. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-8103-2943-0.
  7. ^ Paul Chappell (1970). A Portrait of John Bull, C. 1563-1628. Hereford Cathedral. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-9501011-2-5.
  8. ^ Ronald H. Fritze; William B. Robison (1996). Historical Dictionary of Stuart England, 1603-1689. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 538. ISBN 978-0-313-28391-8.