• In Japan, the Tokugawa shogunate further isolates itself from the world with the promulgation of the third sakoku edict and tightens its social control apparatus with the initiation of the sankin kotai system of hostage taking to ensure the loyalty of the great daimyo lords.
• Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident for speaking out against harsh punishments for religious offenses and the mistreatment of Native Americans. Williams would found his own colony, now known as Rhode Island.
• The Boston Latin School, the oldest public school in the Americas, is said to have been founded.

These people were born in 1635:

• English scientist Robert Hooke.

These people died in 1635:

• Samuel de Champlain, French explorer and founder of Quebec.
• Thomas Parr, and Englishman said to be aged 152 years.

1634 - 1635 - 1636

17th century

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