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1634 (MDCXXXIV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1634th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 634th year of the 2nd millennium, the 34th year of the 17th century, and the 5th year of the 1630s decade. As of the start of 1634, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

• February 24-25 – Rebellious soldiers kill Albrecht von Wallenstein
• March 1 – Battle at Smolensk, King Ladislaus IV of Poland defeats Russian army.
• March 25 – The first settlers arrive in St. Mary's City, Maryland (led by Lord Baltimore), the fourth permanent settlement in British North America.
• August 18 – Urbain Grandier, a priest accused of sorcery, burned alive in Loudun, France.
• September 5 and September 6 – Battle of Nördlingen (1634) results in Catholic victory

• Moses Amyraut's Traite de la predestination is published
• Curaçao captured by the Dutch
• Treaty of Polianovska
• First meeting of the Académie française
• Jean Nicolet lands at Green Bay, Wisconsin
• Opening of Covent Garden Market in London
• English establish a settlement at Cochin, now Kochi on Malabar coast
• First decennial performance of the Oberammergau Passion Plays
• Oxford University Press receives its charter and becomes the second of the privileged presses

• April 28– Urbain Grandier