1642

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[edit] Events of 1642

January 4 - Charles I attempts to arrest five leading members of the Long Parliament, but they escape. A precursor to English Civil War.
March 1 - Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine) becomes the first incorporated city in America
March 19 - the citizens of Galway seize an English naval ship, close the town gates and declare support for Confederate Ireland.
May 17 - Sieur de Maisonneuve founds the Ville Marie de Montréal.

July - Charles I besieges Hull in an attempt to gain control of its arsenal.
August 4 - Lord Forbes relieves Forthill and besieges Galway.
August 22 - King Charles I raised the royal battle standard over Nottingham Castle, so declaring war on his own Parliament.
September 2 - Parliament orders the theatres of London closed, effectively ending the era of English Renaissance theatre.
September 7 - Lord Forbes raises his unsuccessful siege of Galway.
September 8 - Thomas Granger executed by hanging at Plymouth, Massachusetts for confessing to numerous acts of bestiality.
October 23 - Battle of Edgehill the first pitched battle of the First English Civil War.
November 24 - Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).

The Dutch drive Spain from Taiwan.
Abel Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.
Blaise Pascal produces a mechanical adding machine (the "Pascaline").
First Battle of Lostwithiel.
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier brings the Hope diamond to Europe.
Puritans close all theaters in England.
Peter Stuyvesant becomes the governor of Curaçao
Bro/broo in Sweden is granted the city rights for the second time and takes the name Kristinehamn.
Rembrandt Harmenzoon van Rijn finishes his painting "The Night Watch".

**1642 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1642 MDCXLII
Ab urbe condita	2395
Armenian calendar	1091 ԹՎ ՌՂԱ
Bahá'í calendar	-202 – -201
Buddhist calendar	2186
Chinese calendar	4278/4338-12-1 (辛巳年十二月初一日) — to — 4279/4339-intercalary 11-10 (壬午年閏十一月初十日)
Ethiopian calendar	1634 – 1635
Hebrew calendar	5402 – 5403
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1697 – 1698
- Shaka Samvat	1564 – 1565
- Kali Yuga	4743 – 4744
Holocene calendar	11642
Iranian calendar	1020 – 1021
Islamic calendar	1051 – 1052
Japanese calendar	Kan'ei 19 (寛永19年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2302 (皇紀2302年)
- Jōmon Era	11642
Julian calendar	1687
Korean calendar	3975
Thai solar calendar	2185
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