1641
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Centuries: | 16th century - 17th century - 18th century |
Decades: | 1610s 1620s 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s |
Years: | 1638 1639 1640 - 1641 - 1642 1643 1644 |
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Year 1641 (MDCXLI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1641
[edit] January - June
- January 18 - Pau Claris proclaims the Catalan Republic.
[edit] July - December
- July 12 - Portugal and the Dutch Republic sign a Treaty of Offensive and Defensive Alliance. The treaty is not respected by both parties and as a consequence it has no effect in the Portuguese colonies (Brazil and Angola) that are under Dutch rule.
- August 10 - Charles I of England flees London for the north.
- October - Irish Rebellion of 1641: The Gaelic Irish in Ulster revolt against the English settlers.
- November 4 - A Dutch fleet, with Michiel de Ruyter as third in command, beats back a Spanish-Dunkirker fleet in an action at Cape St Vincent.
- November 22 - The Long Parliament passes the Grand Remonstrance, part of a series of legislation designed to contain Charles I's absolutist tendencies.
[edit] Undated
- The English House of Commons pass the Triennial Act, which compels the king to summon Parliament every three years in England.
- The Dutch found a trading colony on Dejima, near Nagasaki, Japan.
- Portugal is ousted from Malacca by the Dutch.
- Claudio Monteverdi's opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria is first performed.
- Moses Amyraut's De l'elevation de la foy et de l'abaissement de la raison en la creance des mysteres de la religion is published.
- René Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy is originally published.
- The Norwegian city of Kristiansand is founded by King Christian IV.
- The Swedish town of Falun is given city rights by Queen Kristina.
- English law makes witchcraft a capital crime.
- A massive epidemic breaks out in northern and central China, just 3 years before the fall of the Ming Dynasty. It races south down along the Grand Canal of China and the densely-populated settlements there, from the northern terminus at Beijing, to the fertile Jiangnan region. In some local areas and towns it wipes out 90% of the local populace.
[edit] Births
Gregorian calendar | 1641 MDCXLI |
Ab urbe condita | 2394 |
Armenian calendar | 1090 ԹՎ ՌՂ |
Bahá'í calendar | -203 – -202 |
Berber calendar | 2591 |
Buddhist calendar | 2185 |
Burmese calendar | 1003 |
Byzantine calendar | 7149 – 7150 |
Chinese calendar | 庚辰年十一月二十日 (4277/4337-11-20) — to —
辛巳年十一月廿九日(4278/4338-11-29) |
Coptic calendar | 1357 – 1358 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1633 – 1634 |
Hebrew calendar | 5401 – 5402 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1696 – 1697 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1563 – 1564 |
- Kali Yuga | 4742 – 4743 |
Holocene calendar | 11641 |
Iranian calendar | 1019 – 1020 |
Islamic calendar | 1050 – 1051 |
Japanese calendar | Kan'ei 18 (寛永18年) |
Korean calendar | 3974 |
Thai solar calendar | 2184 |
- January 13 - Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of Marchmont, Scottish statesman (d. 1724)
- January 18 - François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (d. 1691)
- February 2 - Claude de la Colombière, French Catholic priest (d. 1682)
- March - Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester (d. 1711)
- April 8 - Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English statesman (d. 1704)
- April 15 - Robert Sibbald, Scottish physician and antiquarian (d. 1722)
- May - Juan Núñez de la Peña, Spanish historian (d. 1721)
- May 10 - Dudley North, English economist (d. 1691)
- May 28 - Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian polymath (d. 1693)
- June 30 - Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Irish general (d. 1719)
- July 30 - Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1673)
- August 5 - John Hathorne, American magistrate (d. 1717)
- September - Nehemiah Grew, biologist (d. 1712)
- September 7 - Tokugawa Ietsuna, Japanese shogun (d. 1680)
- October 5 - Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, mistress of Louis XIV of France (d. 1707)
- November 23 - Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (d. 1720)
- date unknown
- Pierre Allix, French Protestant clergyman (d. 1717)
- Diego Ladrón de Guevara, viceroy of Peru (d. 1718)
- Dodo von Knyphausen, German nobleman (d. 1698)
- Empress XiaoHui, consort of the Shunzhi Emperor of China (d. 1717)
[edit] Deaths
- January 3 - Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomer (b. c. 1618)
- January 11 - Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (b. 1583)
- March 8 - Xu Xiake, Chinese adventurer and geographer (b. 1587)
- April 13 - Richard Montagu, English clergyman (b. 1577)
- April 15 - Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (b. 1581)
- April 27 - Wilhelm von Rath, German soldier and scholar (b. 1585)
- May 10 - Johan Banér, Swedish soldier (b. 1596)
- May 12 - Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, English statesman (b. 1593)
- August 9 - Augustine Baker, Welsh Benedictine mystic (b. 1575)
- September 10 - Ambrose Barlow, English Catholic martyr (b. 1585) (executed)
- October 31 - Cornelis Jol, Dutch naval commander and privateer (b. 1597)
- November 9
- Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, Governor of the Netherlands and Bishop of Toledo (b. c.1609)
- Maren Spliid, Danish alleged witch (b. c. 1600) (executed)
- December 9 - Sir Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (b. 1599)
- date unknown
- Estêvão de Brito, Portuguese composer (b. c. 1570)
- Mukai Shogen Tadakatsu, Japanese admiral (b. 1582)