1638
Events March 29 - Swedish colonists establish first settlement in Delaware, called New Sweden. April 15 - Shogunate forces defeat the last rebels of Shimabara Rebellion in the fortress of Hara. May 11 - French admiral d'Estrees runs his whole fleet aground in Curacao. Dutch settle in Ceylon. Pedro Teixeira makes the first ascent of the Amazon River, from its mouth to Quito, Ecuador. The same trip had been made in the opposite direction in 1541. Willem Kieft, Dutch merchant, appointed Director of New Amsterdam by the Dutch West India Company. The Netherlands colonizes Mauritius. Shipwrecked sailors from England found the first known European settlement in Belize. Swedish settlers arrive on the ships Kalmare Nyckel and Fågel Grip to the American colony New Sweden (Delaware).
Births March 15 - Shunzhi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty of China. September 5 - King Louis XIV of France (d. 1715) November 25 - Catherine of Braganza, Queen-Consort of King Charles II of England
Deaths April 7 - Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese daimyo Johann Heinrich Alsted, German theologian
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