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 Montreal.
May 30 - All honours granted by Charles I from this date onward are retrospectively annulled by Parliament.

July - Charles I besieges Hull in an attempt to gain control of its arsenal.
August 4 - Lord Forbes relieves Forthill and besieges Galway.
August 21 - First Battle of Lostwithiel.
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.
September 29 - Rene Goupil the first of the Canadian Martyrs died in 1642 .
October 23 - Battle of Edgehill the first pitched battle of the First English Civil War.
November 13 - At the Battle of Turnham Green of the First English Civil War the Royalist forces withdrew in face of the Parliamentarian army and failed to take London.
November 24 - Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).
December 13 - Abel Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.

The Dutch drive Spain from Taiwan.
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".
The Manchu under their leader Huang Taiji raid the Ming Chinese province of Shandong from their base in Manchuria. Two years later Beijing would fall to rebels, the Chongzhen Emperor would commit suicide, and the Shunzhi Emperor would become the first Qing Emperor to rule over China proper.
A juvenile is executed for the first time in America, for the crime of bestiality with a cow and a horse.^[1]
The Kaifeng flood of 1642 - some 300,000 people die when the Ming Dynasty army in China intentionally breaks the dams and dykes of the Yellow River to drown the large rebel force of Li Zicheng.
Isaac Aboab da Fonseca is appointed rabbi in Pernambuco, Brazil, thus becoming the first rabbi of the Americas.

**1642 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1642 MDCXLII
Ab urbe condita	2395
Armenian calendar	1091 ԹՎ ՌՂԱ
Bahá'í calendar	-202 – -201
Berber calendar	2592
Buddhist calendar	2186
Burmese calendar	1004
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)
Coptic calendar	1358 – 1359
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)
Korean calendar	3975
Thai solar calendar	2185
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