1642
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Years: 1639 1640 1641 - 1642 - 1643 1644 1645 |
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Decades: 1610s 1620s 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s |
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Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
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1642 (MDCXLII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
[edit] 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 the 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".
[edit] Births
- January 2 - Mehmed IV, Ottoman Sultan (died 1693)
- February 18 - Marie Champmeslé, French actress (died 1698)
- April 15 - Suleiman II, Ottoman Sultan (died 1691)
- June 20 - George Hickes, English minister and scholar (died 1715)
- August 14 - Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1723)
- December 6 - Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (died 1703)
- December 25 (O.S.) - Isaac Newton, mathematician and physicist (died 1727)
- December 30 - Vicenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (died 1707)
See also Category:1642 births.
[edit] Deaths
- January 8 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist (born 1564)
- February 7 - William Bedell, English clergyman (born 1571)
- April 30 - Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (born 1578)
- July 3 - Marie de' Medici, queen of Henry IV of France (born 1573)
- August 18 - Guido Reni, Italian painter (born 1575)
- September 12 - Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, French conspirator (born 1620)
- October 24 - Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey Fen drainage adventurer and soldier (born 1583)
- November 1 - Jean Nicolet, French explorer (born 1598)
- November 7 - Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, English politician (born c. 1563)
- December 4 - Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (born 1585)
See also Category:1642 deaths.