1641
*The
Long Parliament passes a series of legislation designed to contain
Charles I's absolutist tendencies.
*
January 17 –
Pau Claris proclaims the
Catalan Republic.
*
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*The
Swedish city of
Falun was founded by
Queen Kristina*
January 18 -
François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (d.
1691)
*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 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)
*
October 5 -
Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, mistress of
Louis XIV of France (d.
1707)
*
November 23 -
Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (d.
1720)
*
Pierre Allix, French protestant clergyman (d.
1717)
See also :Category:1641 births.*
January 3 -
Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomer
*
January 11 -
Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (b.
1583)
*
March 8 -
Xu Xiake, Chinese adventurer (b.
1587)
*
April 13 -
Richard Montagu, English clergyman (b.
1577)
*
April 15 -
Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (b.
1581)
*
May 10 -
Johan Banér, Swedish soldier (b.
1596)
*
May 12 -
Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, English statesman (b.
1593)
*
November 9 -
Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, Governor of the Netherlands and Bishop of Toledo
*
December 9 - Sir
Anthony van Dyck, Dutch painter (b.
1599)
See also :Category:1641 deaths.
