1641
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- The Long Parliament passes a series of legislation designed to contain Charles I's absolutist tendencies.
- August 10 – Charles I of England flees London for the north
- Irish Rebellion of 1641 - revolt of the Gaelic Irish in Ulster against the English settlers
- 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.
- The Norwegian city of Kristiansand was founded by King Christian IV