1633
Events February 13 - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition. March 1 - Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.Galileo Galilei is forced to recant his heliocentric views. Eppur si muove.Foreign missionaries are expelled from Ethiopia by Negus Fasilidas.
BirthsFebruary 23 - Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist. April 20 - Emperor Go-Komyo of JapanOctober 14 - Prince James Stuart, later King James II of England and Ireland and King James VII of Scotland. Willem Drost, Baroque painter and printmaker (d. 1659)
DeathsMarch 1 - George Herbert, English poet and orator (b. 1593)August 5 - Archbishop George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1562)August 12 - Jacopo Peri, Italian composer
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