By 1638 he had formulated a proposal for a universal language.

It was quickly reconstructed between 1634 and 1638, and further between 1643 and 1644.

The Chaghatay original was last seen in the imperial library sometime between 1628 and 1638 during Shah Jahāngīr's reign.

The first known European gambling house, not called a casino although meeting the modern definition, was the Ridotto, established in Venice, Italy in 1638 to provide controlled gambling during the carnival season.

" In May 1638 the name was changed to Cambridge in honor of the university in Cambridge, England.

In 1638 New Sweden, a Swedish trading post and colony, was established at Fort Christina ( now in Wilmington ) by Peter Minuit at the head of a group of Swedes, Finns and Dutch.

James Gregory ( 1638 – 1675 ) observed the diffraction patterns caused by a bird feather, which was effectively the first diffraction grating to be discovered.

However, in colonial America a delusional Dorothy Talbye was hanged in 1638 for murdering her daughter, as at the time Massachusetts's common law made no distinction between insanity ( or mental illness ) and criminal behavior.

From 1615 to 1638, Jan Mayen was used as a whaling base by the Dutch Noordsche Compagnie, which had been given a monopoly on whaling in the Arctic regions by the States General in 1614.

* Mary was born about 1638.

Johann Heinrich Alsted ( March 1588 – November 9, 1638 ) was a German Calvinist minister and academic, known for his varied interests: in Ramism and Lullism, pedagogy and encyclopedias, theology and millennarianism.

In February 1638 he defeated the Weimar troops in an engagement at Rheinfelden, but shortly afterwards was made prisoner by Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar.

It is believed that the French explorer Jean Nicolet was the first non-Native American to reach Lake Michigan in 1634 or 1638.

The first edition of the Liber Memorialis was published in 1638 by Claudius Salmasius ( Saumaise ) from the Dijon manuscript, now lost, together with the Epitome of Florus.

The island was not permanently inhabited for the forty years after its ' discovery ' by the Dutch, but in 1638 Cornelius Gooyer established the first permanent Dutch settlement in Mauritius with a garrison of twenty-five.

In 1638, after conferring with Williams, Anne Hutchinson, William Coddington, John Clarke, Philip Sherman, and other religious dissidents settled on Aquidneck Island ( then known as Rhode Island ), which was purchased from the local natives, who called it Pocasset.

In 1638, Bachiler and others successfully petitioned to begin a new plantation at Winnacunnet, to which he gave the name Hampton when the town was incorporated in 1639.

The boundary with Iran was confirmed by the Kasr-i Sirin treaty in 1638.

The first clear diagram of a thermoscope was published in 1617 by Giuseppe Biancani: the first showing a scale and thus constituting a thermometer was by Robert Fludd in 1638.

His large library, consisting of unexpurgated volumes collected by his ancestors Thomas Bowdler ( 1638 – 1700 ) and Thomas Bowdler ( 1661 – 1738 ), was donated to the University of Wales, Lampeter.

The term " Unitarian " first appeared as unitaria religio in a document of the Diet of  Lécfalva, Transylvania on 25 October 1600, though it was not widely used in Transylvania until 1638, when the formal recepta Unitaria Religio was published.

It was not until the Edo period in 1638 when the rulers of Japan tried to regulate the types of swords and the social groups which were allowed to wear them that the lengths of katana and wakizashi were officially set.

Year 1638 ( MDCXXXVIII ) was a common year starting on Friday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

Around 1638, the king of the Miskito visited England and made an alliance with the English crown.

In Holland, the Dutch Republic ’ s 17th-century ( 1609 – 1672 ) mercantilist dominion was a first instance of global, commercial hegemony, made feasible with its technological development of wind power and its Four Great Fleets, for the efficient production and delivery of goods and services, which, in turn, made possible its Amsterdam stock market and concomitant dominance of world trade ; in France, King Louis XIV ( 1638 – 1715 ) and ( Emperor ) Napoleon I ( 1799 – 1815 ) established French hegemony via economic, cultural, and military domination of most of Continental Europe.

Although the Dutch and Swedes returned to resettle the Delaware River region as early as 1638, much of the Delaware Bay area south of what is today the city of Newcastle remained unsettled until 1662, when a grant of land at the Hoernkills ( the area around Cape Henlopen, near the current town of Lewes ) was made by the city of Amsterdam to a party of Mennonites.

In 1638 the English made arrangements to use Conanicut Island for grazing sheep.

His lectures and poems had now made him famous, and he was summoned to Munich where, in 1638, he became court chaplain to the elector Maximilian I.

It is thought to have been used for navigation since Roman times, and improvements were made in 1638 and in the early 1700s, when locks and staunches were built.

Two works in the series attributed to Jordaens are Apollo and Pan ( 1637 ), made after a sketch by Rubens, and Vertummus and Pomona ( 1638 ).

In 1638, notwithstanding his recent experiences, he was one of the chief leaders in his county of the resistance to ship money, though it would appear that he subsequently made submission.

Dom Pierre Pérignon, O. S. B., ( c. 1638 – 14 September 1715 ) was a French Benedictine monk who made important contributions to the production and quality of Champagne wine in an era when the region's wines were predominantly still and red.

In the 1638 Treaty of Hartford, Uncas made the Mohegan a tributary of the Connecticut River Colony.

In September 1638 Baron Franz von Mercy was made master-general of ordnance in the army of Bavaria, then the second largest army in the Holy Roman Empire.

In 1638, two of Northumberland's prominent supporters at court — Thomas Wentworth and Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud — used their influence at court to have Northumberland made Lord High Admiral of England, a position which had been vacant since the assassination of the 1st Duke of Buckingham in 1628.

In 1638 the English made arrangements to use Conanicut Island for grazing sheep.

The thin nature of the corporate colony's presence in the bay and along what was called the South River ( now the Delaware ) made it possible for Peter Minuit, the former governor of New Netherland, to establish a competing Swedish sponsored settlement, New Sweden in 1638.

It is made up of the original nine squares laid out in 1638 to form New Haven, including the New Haven Green, and the immediate surrounding central business district, as well as a significant portion of the Yale University campus.

A canal from the mouth of the River Exe to Exeter had been opened in 1566 ; and eight miles of the River Tone had been made navigable in 1638.

In 1638 he defended John Hampden on his refusal to pay Ship Money, on which occasion he made a notable speech.

He began his massive three-folio volume Historia Coelestis Britannica ( 1725 ) by printing five pages of their surviving letters and observations, made between 1638 and 1643.

In 1638 he was made a Count of the Empire.

On the re-establishment of Presbytery in 1638 he was made Professor of Divinity at St. Andrews.

In 1650 A. D., Kanthirava Narasaraja Wodeyar ( 1638 – 59 ) made a beginning by acquiring Hebbur in Tumkur taluk from immadi Kempe Gowda.