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    1638 (MDCXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1638th...
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    with James VI and his son Charles I over church structure and doctrine. In 1638, thousands of Scots signed the National Covenant, pledging to resist changes...
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    or fall of 1638, thought to be first living in the town of Watertown, Massachusetts. Shortly thereafter he was a founder of Sudbury in 1638, and later...
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    Catherine of Sweden (Swedish: Katarina; 10 November 1584 – 13 December 1638) was a Swedish princess and a Countess Palatine of Zweibrücken as the consort...
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    John Tradescant the Elder ( /trəˈdɛskənt/; c. 1570s – 15–16 April 1638), father of John Tradescant the Younger, was an English naturalist, gardener, collector...
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  • 1630s BC (redirect from 1638 BC)
    16th century BC Decades 1650s BC 1640s BC 1630s BC 1620s BC 1610s BC Years 1639 BC 1638 BC 1637 BC 1636 BC 1635 BC 1634 BC 1633 BC 1632 BC 1631 BC 1630 BC Categories...
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    less than half the size, and has three putti rather than one. Painted in 1638 or 1639, this version is now in the Prado in Madrid and was completed shortly...
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    oil on canvas by Rubens measuring 109.5 cm by 85 cm and dating to between 1638 and 1639. It is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. It is a courtly...
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    grant to William Penn, son of the state's namesake. Prior to that, between 1638 and 1655, a southeast portion of the state was part of New Sweden, a Swedish...
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    Kentucky Route 1638 is a state highway in Kentucky. The entire route is in Meade County. KY 1638 starts in Brandenburg Station at a junction with KY 448...
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    Kepler-1638 is a G-type main-sequence star located about 5,000 light years away in the constellation of Cygnus. One known exoplanet has been found orbiting...
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    The siege of Salvador was a siege that took place between April and May 1638, during the Dutch–Portuguese War and Eighty Years' War. The governor of the...
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    of French territory actually controlled. KG: Knight of the Garter, 21 May 1638 Charles's coat of arms as Prince of Wales was the royal arms (which he later...
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    by adding secondary or tertiary sources. Find sources: "Siege of Daman" 1638–1639 – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2024) (Learn...
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    his life under house arrest. During this time, he wrote Two New Sciences (1638), primarily concerning kinematics and the strength of materials, summarizing...
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    established by John Davenport, Theophilus Eaton, and others at New Haven in March 1638. The New Haven Colony had its own constitution called "The Fundamental Agreement...
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    (Turkish: serdar) to retake the city following 1624, were fruitless. In 1638 Ottoman Sultan Murad IV (Suleyman I's Great-Great-Great Grandson) decided...
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    scenes representing the sacraments of the Catholic Church, painted between 1638 and 1640 by the French artist Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665). Commissioned in...
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  • 1623 1624 1625 1626 1627 1628 1629 1630 1631 1632 1633 1634 1635 1636 1637 1638 1639 1640 … In science 1627 1628 1629 1630 1631 1632 1633 Art Archaeology...
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    India Company fleets attempting to blockade and conquer the city of Goa. In 1638, forces commanded by the Viceroy of Portuguese India, D. Pedro da Silva and...
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  • August 15, 2022. 1638: The Sovereign States (publisher's page). Simon & Schuster. 5 September 2023. ISBN 978-1-9821-9287-7. "1638: The Sovereign States...
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  • 1637 – Almshouses at Moretonhampstead, England, built in surviving form. 1638 May 13 – Construction begins on the Red Fort in Delhi for Mughal Emperor...
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    Three Kingdoms, 1638–1660. Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0-316-86125-0. Royle, Trevor (2005). Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1638–1660. Abacus....
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    India Company, known as the "VOC" in its Dutch acronym. She was launched in 1638. There are no contemporary detailed descriptions of Heemskerck. Tasman's...
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    George Croke supported Hampden, seven judges found in favour of the King in 1638. The fines imposed on people who refused to pay ship money and standing out...
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    Louis XIV (category 1638 births)
    Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi Soleil), was King...
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    Michel Bégon (25 December 1638 – 14 March 1710) was a French colonial official and naturalist. He was intendant de la marine at the port of Rochefort and...
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  • In the history of Baghdad, the period from 1638 to 1704 began with the Fall of Baghdad after the Ottoman Empire occupied the city from the Safavid. It...
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    1600 to 1621; in Crosby House, Bishopsgate from 1621 to 1638; and in Leadenhall Street from 1638 to 1648, the company moved into Craven House, an Elizabethan...
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  • Corcuera's occupation was the first prolonged Spanish occupation of Jolo from 1638 to 1645. The new Governor-General of the Philippines at the time, Governor...
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