1643
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| Centuries: | 16th century - 17th century - 18th century |
| Decades: | 1610s 1620s 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s |
| Years: | 1640 1641 1642 - 1643 - 1644 1645 1646 |
| 1643 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
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).
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[edit] Events of 1643
[edit] January - June
- January 21 - Abel Tasman discovers the island of Tonga.
- February 6 - Abel Tasman discovers the Fiji islands.
- March 13 - First English Civil War - First Battle of Middlewich: The Roundheads rout the Cavaliers at Middlewich in Cheshire, England.
- May 14 - Louis XIV (of France) succeeds Louis XIII.
- May 19 - Battle of Rocroi: The French defeat the Spanish at Rocroi, France.
- June 30 - First English Civil War - Battle of Adwalton Moor: Cavaliers (supporters of Charles I) gain control of Yorkshire.
[edit] July - December
- July 5 - First English Civil War - Battle of Lansdowne: Royalists and Parliamentarians battle to a draw.
- July 13 - First 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 - First English Civil War - First Battle of Newbury: Royalists withdraw to end further bloodshed.
- 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 - Battle of Tuttlingen: France is defeated by forces of the Holy Roman Empire.
[edit] Undated
- An Calbhach mac Aodha O Conchobhair Donn is inaugurated as the last king of Connacht.
- Evangelista Torricelli invents the mercury barometer.
- The New England Confederation is formed.
- Baden-Baden is pillaged by the French.
- Jean Bolland publishes 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 5-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
[edit] Births
| 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 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7151 – 7152 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬午年閏十一月十一日 (4279/4339-intercalary 11-11) — to —
癸未年十一月廿一日(4280/4340-11-21) |
| 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 |
- January 4 (N.S.) - Sir Isaac Newton, mathematician and physicist (d. 1727)
- February 16 - John Sharp, English Archbishop of Yorkshire (d. 1714)
- February 25 - Ahmed II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1695)
- March 25 - Louis Moréri, French encylopedist (d. 1680)
- April 3 - Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine, general of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1690)
- May 7 - Stephanus Van Cortlandt, first native Mayor of New York (d. 1700)
- August 12 - King Afonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683)
- September 18 - Gilbert Burnet, Scottish Bishop of Salisbury (d. 1715)
- September 27 - Solomon Stoddard, American minister (d. 1729)
- October 14 - Bahadur Shah I, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1712)
- November 1 - John Strype, English historian and biographer (d. 1737)
- November 22 - René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French explorer (d. 1687)
- See also Category: 1643 births.
[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, at the Battle of Newbury:
- Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, English politician and writer
- Robert Dormer, 1st Earl of Carnarvon
- Henry Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland
- September 21 - Emperor Hong Taiji of China (b. 1592)
- 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)
- Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (b. 1567)
- December 8 - John Pym, English statesman (b. 1583)
- December 11 - Herman Wrangel, Swedish soldier and politician
- December 30 - Giovanni Baglione, Italian painter and historian of art (b. 1566)
- See also Category:1643 deaths.
