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1635

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  • Guadeloupe and Martinique are colonized by France.
  • Dominica is claimed by France.
  • The Ottomans are expelled from Yemen.
  • In Edo period Japan, the Sakoku Edict of 1635 enforces isolationism. Japanese are forbidden to travel abroad and unauthorised Europeans forbidden to enter under penalty of death. Christianity (Catholicism) is absolutely prohibited. Foreign merchants – Chinese and those of the Dutch East India Company – are restricted to enclaves in Nagasaki and access by the Portuguese is completely forbidden: an imperial memorandum decrees, "Hereafter entry by the Portuguese galeota is forbidden. If they insist on coming, the ships must be destroyed and anyone aboard those ships must be beheaded."
  • In the Mughal Empire, Shah Jahan's Pearl Mosque at Lahore Fort is completed.
  • Nagyszombat University (predecessor of Budapest University) is established.
  • Willem and Joan Blaeu publish the first edition of their Atlas Novus, in Amsterdam.</onlyinclude>

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