1633: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

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.

• 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

• March 1 - George Herbert, English poet and orator (b. 1593)
• August 5 - Archbishop George Abbot, archbishop of Canterbury
• August 12 - Jacopo Peri, Italian composer