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1633

Years: 1630 1631 1632 - 1633 - 1634 1635 1636

Decades: 1600s 1610s 1620s - 1630s - 1640s 1650s 1660s

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1633 in literature 1633 in science

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

• February 13 - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
• Galileo Galilei is forced to recant his heliocentric views. Eppur si muove.
• Foreign missionaries are expelled from Ethiopia by Negus Fasilidas.

Births

• February 23 - Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist.
• October 14 - Prince James Stuart, later King James II of England and Ireland and King James VII of Scotland.
• Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan

Deaths

• August 5 - Archbishop George Abbot, archbishop of Canterbury
• August 12 - Jacopo Peri, Italian composer

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