1641

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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 1641 by topic: Arts and Science Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science Lists of leaders Colonial governors - State leaders Birth and death categories Births - Deaths Establishments and disestablishments categories Establishments - Disestablishments Works category Works 1641 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 1641 MDCXLI Ab urbe condita 2394 Armenian calendar 1090 ԹՎ ՌՂ Chinese calendar 4277/4337-11-20 (庚辰年十一月二十日) — to — 4278/4338-11-29 (辛巳年十一月廿九日) Ethiopian calendar 1633 – 1634 Hebrew calendar 5401 – 5402 Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat 1696 – 1697 - Shaka Samvat 1563 – 1564 - Kali Yuga 4742 – 4743 Iranian calendar 1019 – 1020 Islamic calendar 1051 – 1052 Japanese calendar Kan'ei 18 (寛永18年) - Imperial Year Kōki 2301 (皇紀2301年) - Jōmon Era 11641 Thai solar calendar 2184

1641 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

[edit] Events

• The Long Parliament passes a series of legislation designed to contain Charles I's absolutist tendencies.
• January 17 – Pau Claris proclaims the Catalan Republic.
• 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.
• René Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy was originally published.
• The Norwegian city of Kristiansand was founded by King Christian IV
• The Swedish town of Falun was given city rights by Queen Kristina

[edit] Births

• January 18 - François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (d. 1691)
• March - Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester (d. 1711)
• April 8 - Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English statesman (d. 1704)
• April 15 - Robert Sibbald, Scottish physician and antiquarian (d. 1722)
• May 10 - Dudley North, English economist (d. 1691)
• May 28 - Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian polymath (d. 1693)
• June 30 - Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Irish general (d. 1719)
• July 30 - Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1673)
• August 5 - John Hathorne, American magistrate (d. 1717)
• October 5 - Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, mistress of Louis XIV of France (d. 1707)
• November 23 - Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (d. 1720)
• Pierre Allix, French Protestant clergyman (d. 1717)

See also Category:1641 births.

[edit] Deaths

• January 3 - Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomer (born c. 1618)
• January 11 - Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (born 1583)
• March 8 - Xu Xiake, Chinese adventurer (born 1587)
• April 13 - Richard Montagu, English clergyman (born 1577)
• April 15 - Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (born 1581)
• May 10 - Johan Banér, Swedish soldier (born 1596)
• May 12 - Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, English statesman (born 1593)
• October 31 - Cornelis Jol, Dutch naval commander and privateer (born 1597)
• November 9 - Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, Governor of the Netherlands and Bishop of Toledo (born c.1609)
• December 9 - Sir Anthony van Dyck, Dutch painter (born 1599)

See also Category:1641 deaths.