1643

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Years: 1640 1641 1642 - 1643 - 1644 1645 1646

Decades: 1610s 1620s 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1643 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 1643 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 1643 MDCXLIII Ab urbe condita 2396 Armenian calendar 1092 ԹՎ ՌՂԲ Chinese calendar 4279/4339-intercalary 11-11 (壬午年閏十一月十一日) — to — 4280/4340-11-21 (癸未年十一月廿一日) Ethiopian calendar 1635 – 1636 Hebrew calendar 5403 – 5404 Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat 1698 – 1699 - Shaka Samvat 1565 – 1566 - Kali Yuga 4744 – 4745 Iranian calendar 1021 – 1022 Islamic calendar 1053 – 1054 Japanese calendar Kan'ei 20 (寛永20年) - Imperial Year Kōki 2303 (皇紀2303年) - Jōmon Era 11643 Thai solar calendar 2186

1643 (MDCXLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events 2 Ongoing events 3 Births 4 Deaths

[edit] Events

• January 21 - Abel Tasman discovers Tonga
• February 6 - Abel Tasman discovers the Fiji islands
• March 13 - First Battle of Middlewich in the English Civil War. During this battle the Roundheads routed the Cavaliers at Middlewich in Cheshire, England
• May 14 - Louis XIV (of France) succeeds Louis XIII
• May 19 - Battle of Rocroi: French victory over the Spanish at Rocroi, France
• June 30 - Cavaliers (supporters of Charles I in the English Civil War) win the Battle of Adwalton Moor and gain control of Yorkshire
• 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 Parliamentarian Sir William Waller
• October 28 - The Dutch corsairs end their ocupation of Valdivia.

• An Calbhach mac Aodha O Conchobhair Donn inaugurated as the last king of Connacht
• Austro-Bavarian army defeats French at Duttlingen
• End of the reign of Empress Meisho of Japan
• Emperor Go-Komyo 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 French
• 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
• Claudio Monteverdi's opera l'Incoronazione di Poppea is first performed
• 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
• Roger Williams, a co-founder of Rhode Island, publishes A Key Into the Language of America

[edit] Ongoing events

• English Civil War (1642-1649)
• 30 Year's War (1618-1648)

[edit] Births

• January 4 (N.S.) - Sir Isaac Newton, mathematician and physicist (died 1727)
• February 16 - John Sharp, English Archbishop of Yorkshire (died 1714)
• February 25 - Ahmed II, Ottoman Sultan (died 1695)
• March 25 - Louis Moréri, French encylopedist (ddied 1680)
• April 3 - Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine, general of the Holy Roman Empire (died 1690)
• May 7 - Stephanus Van Cortlandt, first native Mayor of New York (died 1700)
• August 12 - King Afonso VI of Portugal (died 1683)
• September 18 - Gilbert Burnet, Scottish Bishop of Salisbury (died 1715)
• September 27 - Solomon Stoddard, American minister (died 1729)
• October 14 - Bahadur Shah I, Mughal Emperor of India (died 1712)
• November 1 - John Strype, English historian and biographer (died 1737)
• November 22 - René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French explorer (died 1687)

[edit] Deaths

• February 25 - Marco da Gagliano, Italian composer (b. 1582)
• March 1 - Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer (b. 1583)
• April 4 - Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (b. 1583)
• April 20 - Christoph Demantius, German composer (b. 1567)
• May 14 - King Louis XIII of France (b. 1601)
• July 25 - Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, English statesman (b. 1584)
• August 20 - Anne Hutchinson, English Puritan preacher (b. 1591)
• September 15 - Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician (b. 1566)
• September 20 - Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, English politician and writer

• November 3 - John Bainbridge, English astronomer (b. 1583)
• November 3 - Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (b. 1577)
• November 16 - Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, Marshal of France (b. 1602)
• November 29 - William Cartwright, English dramatist (b. 1611)
• November 29 - Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (b. 1567)
• December 8 - John Pym, English statesman (b. 1583)
• Giovanni Baglione, Italian painter and historian of art (b. 1566)
• Herman Wrangel, Swedish soldier and politician
• Emperor Hong Taiji of China (b. 1592)

See also Category:1643 deaths.