Events January–March January 23 – 1635 Capture of Tortuga: The Spanish Navy captures the Caribbean island of Tortuga off of the coast of Haiti after a three-day battle against the English and French Navy. January 25 – King Thalun moves the capital of Burma from Pegu to Ava. February 22 – The Académie française in Paris is formally constituted, as the national academy for the preservation of the French language. March 22 – The Peacock Throne of India's Mughal Empire is inaugurated in a ceremony in Delhi to support the seventh anniversary of Shah Jahan's accession to the throne as Emperor. March 26 – Philipp Christoph von Sötern, the Archbishop-Elector of Trier, is taken prisoner in a surprise attack by Spanish Habsburg troops, leading to a declaration of war against Spain by France and the beginning of the Franco-Spanish War. April–June April 13 – Druze warlord Fakhr-al-Din II is executed in Constantinople. April 23 – Boston Latin School, the oldest school in the United States of America, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts. May 19 – France declares war on Spain. May 30 – Thirty Years' War – The Peace of Prague is signed, which ends the German civil war aspect of the conflict. June 28 – France's Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique begins its occupation of the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, with Charles Liénard de L'Olive as its first Governor. July–September July 31 – The Royal Mail service is made available to the public, by Charles I of England. August 3 – Cossack rebel leader Ivan Sulyma stages a surprise attack on Poland's newly constructed Kodak fortress, and his raiders kill most of the 200 mercenaries stationed there. Kulyma and his allies are captured by the army of Stanisław Koniecpolski, and Kulyma is executed on December 12. August 25 – The Great Colonial Hurricane strikes Narragansett Bay as a possible Category 3 hurricane, killing over 46 people. September 12 – The Treaty of Sztumska Wieś is signed, between Sweden and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. October–December October 9 – Rhode Island founder Roger Williams is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident, after speaking out against punishments for religious offenses, and giving away Native American land. November 15 – Thomas Parr, dead at the alleged age of 152, is buried in Westminster Abbey. November 22 – The Dutch pacification campaign on Formosa, against Taiwanese aborigines, begins. December 23 – Shah