Flag of the city of Wilmington, built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish settlement in North America
In the year 1638, settlers from Sweden arrive on the ships and establish the settlement of New Sweden in Delaware, thus beginning the Swedish colonization of the Americas (Mar 29), Spanish troops defeat the Dutch in the Battle of Kallo near Antwerp (Jun 20), the Dutch settle in Ceylon and colonize Mauritius, the Finnish postal service is founded, New Haven, the first planned city in America, is founded - and all these fine people were born:
1638-xxxx Anna Jaakontytär Hannuksela** (b Jouppila) mother of Juho Simunanpoika Västi - Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1717/74-83)
1638-xxxx Metacomet* a.k.a. adopted English name King Philip/chief of the Wampanoag people - Massachusetts Bay (1676/c.38)
1638-xxxx Yrjänä Mikinpoika Seppälä** (b Kirkon-Kokko) father of Juho Yrjänänpoika Hyövälti and Kerttu Yrjänäntytär Pietilä - Kirkon-Kokko, Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1721/78-87)
1638-0108 Elisabetta Sirani* pioneering female artist/printmaker - Bologna, Holy Roman Empire (1665/27)
1638-0121 Beata Rosenhane* Baroness/writer - Norrköping, Sweden (1674/36)
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1638-0218 Ikeda Tsunamasa* 池田 綱政 daimyō of the Edo period - Japan (1714/76)
1638-0225 Jørgen Iversen Dyppel* governor of the Danish West Indies - Helsingør, Denmark-Norway (1683/45)
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1638-0310 John Vesey* Church of Ireland clergyman/archbishop of Tuam - Coleraine (1716/78)
1638-0314 Johann Georg Gichtel* mystic/religious leader - Regensburg, Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire (1710/71)
1638-0402 Henry Beaumont* politician - Stoughton Grange, Leicestershire, England (1689/50)
1638-0402 John Covel* clergyman/scientist - Horningsheath, Suffolk, England (1722/84)
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1638-0509 Gregorio Vásquez* painter - Santa Fe de Bogotá, New Kingdom of Granada (1711/73)
1638-0608 Pierre Magnol* botanist - Montpellier, France (1715/76)
1638-0629 Heinrich Meibom* physician/scholar - Lübeck, Holy Roman Empire(1700/61)
1638-0710 David Teniers III (B) painter/tapestry designer - Antwerp, Spanish Netherlands (1685/47)
1638-0806 Nicolas Malebranche* priest/philosopher - Paris, Kingdom of France (1715/77)
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1638-0822 Georg Christoph Eimmart* German draughtsman/engraver - Ratisbon (1705/66)
1638-0905 Louis XIV of France* “the Sun King” - Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Kingdom of France (1715/76)
1638-1006 Lasse Lucidor* (b Johansson) teacher/poet/ songwriter - Stockholm, Sweden (1674/35)
1638-1031 Meindert Hobbema (B) landscape painter - Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (1709/71)
1638-1122 Christoph Cellarius* German scholar - Schmalkalden, Thuringia, Holy Roman Empire (1707/68)
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1638-1225 Michel Bégon* ancien regime official - Blois, Kingdom of France (1710/71)
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Updated 18.4.2023-3
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