1632

Kan'ei 9 (寛永九年)

Timeline of 1632

• 1632/12 Post of Ômetsuke is established.

Other Events

• Siege of Shimabara
• Kumamoto castle is taken from the Katô clan and given to Hosokawa Tadaoki by the shogunate.
• Asano Mitsuakira succeeds Asano Nagaakira as daimyo of Hiroshima han.
• Kumejima tsumugi (pongee) cloth is first produced.
• Nihonmachi of Ayutthaya burned, many Japanese killed; many flee to Cambodia.

Births and Deaths

• Retired Shogun Tokugawa Hidetada dies (b. 1579).
• Asano Nagaakira, lord of Hiroshima, dies (b. 1586).
• Hideko, daughter of Oda Nobunaga, dies.
• Ikeda Nagayuki dies (b. 1587).
• Matsudaira Yasunaga dies (b. 1562).
• Nabeshima Mitsushige is born (d. 1700).
• Nanbu Toshinao, lord of Morioka, dies.
• Okabe Nagamori dies (b. 1568).
• Sanada Nobumasa dies (b. 1547).

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