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| Years: 1638 1639 1640 - 1641 - 1642 1643 1644 | |
| Decades: 1610s 1620s 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s | |
| Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century | |
Events
- The Long Parliament passes a series of legislation designed to contain Charles I's absolutist tendencies.
- August 10 – Charles I of England flees London for the north
- Irish Rebellion of 1641 - revolt of the Gaelic Irish in Ulster against the English settlers
- The Dutch found a trading colony on Dejima, near Nagasaki, Japan.
- Portugal is ousted from Malacca by the Dutch.
- Claudio Monteverdi's opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria is first performed.
- Moses Amyraut's De l'elevation de la foy et de l'abaissement de la raison en la creance des mysteres de la religion is published.
- The Norwegian city of Kristiansand was founded by King Christian IV
Births
- March - Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester
- August 5 - John Hathorne, magistrate († 1717)
- October 5 - Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, mistress of *Louis XIV of France
- Pierre Allix, French Protestant clergyman
- Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian nobleman and polymath
Deaths
- January 3 - Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomer (* c.1619)
- May 12 - Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford
- December 9 - Sir Anthony van Dyck, painter
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