1643

Centuries:	16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades:	1610s 1620s 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s
Years:	1640 1641 1642 - 1643 - 1644 1645 1646

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

[edit] Events of 1643

July 5 - English Civil War: The Battle of Lansdowne is indecisive.
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.
September 20 - Royalists withdraw to end further bloodshed after the First Battle of Newbury.
October 28 - The Dutch corsairs end their occupation of Valdivia in what is now Chile.
November 14 - Empress Meishō abdicates and Emperor Go-Kōmyō accedes to the throne of Japan.
November 24 - The Battle of Tuttlingen results in the defeat of France by forces of the Holy Roman Empire.

An Calbhach mac Aodha O Conchobhair Donn inaugurated as the last king of Connacht.
Austro-Bavarian army defeats French at Duttlingen.
Evangelista Torricelli invents the mercury barometer.
New England Confederation is formed.
Baden-Baden pillaged by the French.
Jean Bolland published the first two volumes of the Acta Sanctorum (in Antwerp). This is the beginning of the Bollandists' work.
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.

**1643 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1643 MDCXLIII
Ab urbe condita	2396
Armenian calendar	1092 ԹՎ ՌՂԲ
Bahá'í calendar	-201 – -200
Berber calendar	2593
Buddhist calendar	2187
Burmese calendar	1005
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)
Coptic calendar	1359 – 1360
Ethiopian calendar	1635 – 1636
Hebrew calendar	5403 – 5404
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1698 – 1699
- Shaka Samvat	1565 – 1566
- Kali Yuga	4744 – 4745
Holocene calendar	11643
Iranian calendar	1021 – 1022
Islamic calendar	1052 – 1053
Japanese calendar	Kan'ei 20 (寛永20年)
Korean calendar	3976
Thai solar calendar	2186
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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 (died 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)

See also Category: 1643 births.

See also Category:1643 deaths.