Dashed left edge = started before November 1632 ·
Dashed right edge = ongoing beyond November 1632
Events in November 1632 5
1594 – 1632Gustav II AdolfThe Lion of the NorthRevolutionized modern warfare and led Sweden to victory in the Thirty Years War.
1611 – 1632Gustavus AdolphusLion of the NorthGustavus Adolphus transformed Sweden into a major European military power during the Thirty Years’ War.
1632 – 1677Baruch SpinozaRationalist philosopherBaruch (Benedictus) de Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin, born and lived in the Dutch Republic. One of the three great Continental rationalists alongside Descartes and Leibniz, he developed a monist metaphysics identifying God with Nature, and earned his living grinding optical lenses.
1632Baruch Spinoza born in Amsterdam24 November 1632Baruch Espinosa is born on 24 November 1632 in the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam, the third child of a Portuguese Sephardic merchant family that had fled the Iberian Inquisitions.
1632 – 1687Jean-Baptiste LullyFrench Baroque opera composerItalian-born French composer who dominated French music under Louis XIV, establishing the French opera tradition and the modern orchestra.