Year 1628 (MDCXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). It corresponds to 5388/5389 in the Hebrew Calendar.
Events of 1628
January - June
July - December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
- January 8 - François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg, French general (d. 1695)
- January 10 - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d. 1687)
- January 12 - Charles Perrault, French folklorist (d. 1703)
- March 10 - Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician (d. 1694)
- March 17 - François Girardon, French sculptor (d. 1715)
- April 23 - Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (d. 1704)
- May 17 - Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria, regent of the Tyrol (d. 1662)
- July 11 - Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (d. 1701)
- August 29 - John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)
- November 28 - John Bunyan, English writer (d. 1688)
- December 25 - Noël Coypel, French painter (d. 1707)
- probable - Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruysdael, celebrated Dutch landscape painter (d. 1682)
- See also Category:1628 births.
Deaths
- March 12 - John Bull, English composer (b. c. 1562)
- March 29 - Tobias Matthew, Archbishop of York (b. 1546)
- June 8 - Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (b. 1547)
- July 13 - Robert Shirley, English adventurer (b. c. 1581)
- August 6 - Johannes Junius, Mayor of Bamberg (b. 1573)
- August 23 - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (b. 1592)
- September 30 - Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English writer (b. 1554)
- October 16 - François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555)
- November 15 - Roque Gonzales, Paraguayan missionary (b. 1576)
- November 16 - Paolo Quagliati, Italian composer (b. c. 1555)
- Gregor Aichinger, German composer (b. c. 1565)
Art in 1628
Architecture
Painting
- Rembrandt, then 22 years of age, paints a cheerful self-portrait, which will be sold 380 years later, in 2008, for 4 and a half million dollars.
1628 in Fiction
The classic novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père takes place in 1628. The story includes fictionalized versions of actual historical events of this year, such as the siege of La Rochelle and the assassination of the Duke of Buckingham (see above).
The Angel's Command, a children's adventure novel by British writer Brian Jacques, also takes place in this year.
- See also Category:1628 deaths.
1628 in Film
Film adaptations of The Three Musketeers that are faithful to the novel (e.g. the 1974 version) also are faithful to the historical events of the year. However, some movie versions leave the realm of history and enter the realm of fantasy.
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