1642
1642 (
MDCXLII) was a
common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).
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January 4 -
Charles I attempts to arrest five leading members of the
Long Parliament, but they escape. A precursor to
English Civil War.
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March 1 - Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as
York, Maine) becomes the first incorporated city in America
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March 19 - the citizens of
Galway seize an English naval ship, close the town gates and declare support for
Confederate Ireland.
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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.
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August 4 -
Lord Forbes relieves
Forthill and besieges
Galway.
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August 22 - King Charles I raised the royal battle standard over
Nottingham Castle, so declaring war on his own
Parliament.
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September 7 - Lord Forbes raises his unsuccessful siege of
Galway.
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September 8 -
Thomas Granger executed by hanging at Plymouth, Massachusetts for confessing to numerous acts of bestiality.
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October 23 -
Battle of Edgehill the first
pitched battle of the
First English Civil War.
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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.
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Abel Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of
New Zealand.
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Blaise Pascal produces a mechanical adding machine (the "Pascaline").
* First
Battle of Lostwithiel.
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Jean-Baptiste Tavernier brings the
Hope diamond to Europe.
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Puritans close all theaters in .
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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.
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Rembrandt Harmenzoon van Rijn finishes his painting "The
Night Watch".
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January 2 -
Mehmed IV,
Ottoman Sultan (died
1693)
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February 18 -
Marie Champmeslé, French actress (died
1698)
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April 15 -
Suleiman II,
Ottoman Sultan (died
1691)
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June 20 -
George Hickes, English minister and scholar (died
1715)
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August 14 -
Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died
1723)
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December 6 -
Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (died
1703)
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December 25 -
Isaac Newton, mathematician and physicist (died
1727)
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December 30 -
Vicenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (died
1707)
See also :Category:1642 births.*
January 8 -
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist (born
1564)
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February 7 -
William Bedell, English clergyman (born
1571)
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April 30 -
Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (born
1578)
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July 3 -
Marie de' Medici, queen of
Henry IV of France (born
1573)
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August 18 -
Guido Reni, Italian painter (born
1575)
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September 12 -
Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, French conspirator (born
1620)
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October 24 -
Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey Fen drainage adventurer and soldier (born
1583)
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November 1 -
Jean Nicolet, French explorer (born
1598)
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November 7 -
Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, English politician (born c.
1563)
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December 4 -
Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (born
1585)
See also :Category:1642 deaths.
