
{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1640 1641 1642 - 1643 - 1644 1645 1646 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1610s 1620s 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
16th century - 17th century - 18th century
|} ==Events== *January 21 - Abel Tasman discovers Tonga *February 6 - Abel Tasman discovers the Fiji islands. * May 14 - Four year-old Louis XIV of France becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII of France. * May 19 - Battle of Rocroi: France victory over the Spain at Rocroi, France. * July 13 - English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down - In England, Lord Henry Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, wins a crushing victory over the Parliament Sir William Waller. * Austro-Bavarian army defeats France at Duttlingen. *The Royalist forces supporting Charles I of England in the English Civil War win the Battle of Adwalton Moor and gain control of Yorkshire. *End of the reign of Empress Meisho of Japan *Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan ascends to the throne of Japan *Evangelista Torricelli invents the mercury barometer *New England Confederation is formed *Battle of Tüttlingen fought *Baden-Baden pillaged by the France *John Colgan published the first two volumes of the ''Acta Sanctorum'' *Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve places the first cross atop Mount Royal *Åmål is granted its city charter *Miyamoto Musashi dictates ''The Book of Five Rings'' (''Go Rin No Sho'') to his student, completing it in 1654 just before his death * Hong Taiji, Emperor of the Qing Dynasty of the Manchu dies and is succeeded by his five year-old son, the later Shunzhi Emperor of China. ==Ongoing events== *English Civil War (1642-1649) ==Births== *August 21 - King Alphonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683) *Ahmed II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1695) ==Deaths== * March 1 - Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer (b. 1583) * May 14 - Louis XIII of France (b. 1601) * November 29, Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (b. 1567) * Herman Wrangel, Swedish soldier and politician * Emperor Hong Taiji of China (b. 1592) 1643 la:1643 os:1643 sq:1643
1640s
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1643
{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1640 1641 1642 - 1643 - 1644 1645 1646 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1610s 1620s 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
16th century - 17th century - 18th century
|} ==Events== *January 21 - Abel Tasman discovers Tonga *February 6 - Abel Tasman discovers the Fiji islands. * May 14 - Four year-old Louis XIV of France becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII of France. * May 19 - Battle of Rocroi: France victory over the Spain at Rocroi, France. * July 13 - English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down - In England, Lord Henry Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, wins a crushing victory over the Parliament Sir William Waller. * Austro-Bavarian army defeats France at Duttlingen. *The Royalist forces supporting Charles I of England in the English Civil War win the Battle of Adwalton Moor and gain control of Yorkshire. *End of the reign of Empress Meisho of Japan *Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan ascends to the throne of Japan *Evangelista Torricelli invents the mercury barometer *New England Confederation is formed *Battle of Tüttlingen fought *Baden-Baden pillaged by the France *John Colgan published the first two volumes of the ''Acta Sanctorum'' *Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve places the first cross atop Mount Royal *Åmål is granted its city charter *Miyamoto Musashi dictates ''The Book of Five Rings'' (''Go Rin No Sho'') to his student, completing it in 1654 just before his death * Hong Taiji, Emperor of the Qing Dynasty of the Manchu dies and is succeeded by his five year-old son, the later Shunzhi Emperor of China. ==Ongoing events== *English Civil War (1642-1649) ==Births== *August 21 - King Alphonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683) *Ahmed II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1695) ==Deaths== * March 1 - Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer (b. 1583) * May 14 - Louis XIII of France (b. 1601) * November 29, Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (b. 1567) * Herman Wrangel, Swedish soldier and politician * Emperor Hong Taiji of China (b. 1592) 1643 la:1643 os:1643 sq:1643
1643
1640s
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