1642

Years:
1639 1640 1641 - 1642 - 1643 1644 1645

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

Centuries:
16th century - 17th century - 18th century

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Events

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 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 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".

Births

January 2 - Mehmed IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1693)
February 18 - Marie Champmeslé, French actress (d. 1698)
April 15 - Suleiman II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1691)
June 20 - George Hickes, English minister and scholar (d. 1715)
August 14 - Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1723)
December 6 - Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (d. 1703)
December 25 (O.S.) - Isaac Newton, English mathematician and physicist (d. 1727)
December 30 - Vicenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (d. 1707)

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Deaths

January 8 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist (b. 1564)
February 7 - William Bedell, English clergyman (b. 1571)
April 30 - Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (b. 1578)
July 3 - Marie de' Medici, queen of Henry IV of France (b. 1573)
August 18 - Guido Reni, Italian painter (b. 1575)
September 12 - Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, French conspirator (b. 1620)
October 24 - Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey Fen drainage adventurer and soldier (b. 1583)
November 1 - Jean Nicolet, French explorer (b. 1598)
November 7 - Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, English politician
December 4 - Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (b. 1585)

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