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1643
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1644 1645 1646
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Events
*
January 21 -
Abel Tasman discovers
Tonga
*
February 6 -
Abel Tasman discovers the
Fiji islands.
*
May 19 -
Battle of Rocroi:
France French victory over the
Spain Spanish at
Rocroi,
France.
*
July 13 -
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
Parliament Parliamentarian Sir
William Waller.
* An Calbhach mac Aodha O Conchobhair Donn inaugurated as the last king of
Connacht
*
Austro-Bavarian army defeats
France French at
Duttlingen.
*The
Cavaliers Royalist forces supporting
Charles I of England Charles I in the
English Civil War win the
Battle of Adwalton Moor and gain control of
Yorkshire.
*End of the reign of
Empress Meisho of Japan
*
Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan Emperor Go-Komyo ascends to the throne of
Japan
*
Evangelista Torricelli invents the
mercury barometer
*
New England Confederation is formed
*
Battle of Tüttlingen fought
*
Baden-Baden pillaged by the
France French
*
John Colgan published the first two volumes of the ''
Acta Sanctorum''
*
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
*
Hong Taiji, Emperor of the
Qing Dynasty of the
Manchu dies and is succeeded by his five year-old son, the later
Shunzhi Emperor of
China.
*
Roger Williams (theologian) Roger Williams, a co-founder of
Rhode Island, publishes ''A Key Into the Language of America''
Ongoing events
*
English Civil War (
1642-
1649)
*
30 Year's War (
1618-
1648)
Births
*
January 4 (N.S.) -
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)
*
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)
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 -
Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, English politician and writer
*
September 27 -
Solomon Stoddard, American minister
*
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)
*
November 29 -
Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (b.
1567)
*
December 8 -
John Pym, English statesman (b.
1583)
*
Giovanni Baglione, Italian painter and historian of art (b.
1566)
*
Herman Wrangel, Swedish soldier and politician
*Emperor
Hong Taiji of China (b.
1592)
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