- For the novel co-authored by Eric Flint, see 1635: The Cannon Law.
Year 1635 (MDCXXXV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1635
January – June
July – December
Undated
- Guadeloupe and Martinique are colonized by France.
- Dominica is claimed by France.
- The Ottomans are expelled from Yemen.
- Nagyszombat University (predecessor of Budapest University) is established.
- Boston Latin School, the oldest school in the United States of America, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.
- Japan forbids merchants to travel abroad under penalty of death.
- A Japanese imperial memorandum decrees: "Hereafter entry by the Portuguese galeota is forbidden. If they insist on coming, the ships must be destroyed and anyone aboard those ships must be beheaded."
- Liu Tong of the late Ming Dynasty in China writes a book for new art connoisseurs; he tells his readers various ways to spot a fake and authentic pieces of art. He reveals that a Xuande era (1426–1435) bronzework can be authenticated if one knows how to judge its sheen; porcelain wares from the Yongle era (1402–1424) can be judged authentic by their thickness.
Ongoing
Births
- January 8 — Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish Archbishop of Toledo (d. 1709)
- January 13 — Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (d. 1705)
- February 1 — Marquard Gude, German archaeologist (d. 1689)
- February 18 — Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (d. 1680)
- June 3 — Philippe Quinault, French writer (d. 1688)
- July 18 — Robert Hooke, English scientist (d. 1703)
- August 24 — Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (d. 1699)
- November 22 — Francis Willughby, English biologist (d. 1672)
- November 27 — Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France (d. 1719)
Deaths
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