1640

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
  • 16th century
  • 17th century
  • 18th century
Decades:
Years:
  • 1637
  • 1638
  • 1639
  • 1640
  • 1641
  • 1642
  • 1643
1640 by topic
Arts and science
Leaders
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Works category
  • Works
1640 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1640
MDCXL
Ab urbe condita2393
Armenian calendar1089
ԹՎ ՌՁԹ
Assyrian calendar6390
Balinese saka calendar1561–1562
Bengali calendar1047
Berber calendar2590
English Regnal year15 Cha. 1 – 16 Cha. 1
Buddhist calendar2184
Burmese calendar1002
Byzantine calendar7148–7149
Chinese calendar己卯年 (Earth Rabbit)
4336 or 4276
    — to —
庚辰年 (Metal Dragon)
4337 or 4277
Coptic calendar1356–1357
Discordian calendar2806
Ethiopian calendar1632–1633
Hebrew calendar5400–5401
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1696–1697
 - Shaka Samvat1561–1562
 - Kali Yuga4740–4741
Holocene calendar11640
Igbo calendar640–641
Iranian calendar1018–1019
Islamic calendar1049–1050
Japanese calendarKan'ei 17
(寛永１７年)
Javanese calendar1561–1562
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3973
Minguo calendar272 before ROC
民前272年
Nanakshahi calendar172
Thai solar calendar2182–2183
Tibetan calendar阴土兔年
(female Earth-Rabbit)
1766 or 1385 or 613
    — to —
阳金龙年
(male Iron-Dragon)
1767 or 1386 or 614
August 28: Battle of Newburn

1640 (MDCXL) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1640th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 640th year of the 2nd millennium, the 40th year of the 17th century, and the 1st year of the 1640s decade. As of the start of 1640, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events[]

January–June[]

  • February 9 – Ibrahim I (1640–1648) succeeds Murad IV (1623–1640) as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
  • March 8–13 – Siege of Galle: Dutch troops take the strategic fortress at Galle, Sri Lanka from the Portuguese.[1]
  • April 13 – The Short Parliament assembles, as King Charles I of England attempts to fund the second of the Bishops' Wars.
  • May 5 – The Short Parliament is dissolved.
  • May 22 – The Catalan Revolt (Guerra dels Segadors) breaks out in Catalonia.

July–December[]

  • July 9 – John Punch, a servant of Virginia planter Hugh Gwyn, is sentenced to a life of servitude after attempting to escape, making him the "first official slave in the English colonies" [2]
  • July 15 – The first university of Finland, the Royal Academy of Turku, was inaugurated in Turku.[3][4]
  • August 9 – Forty-one Spanish delegates to Japan at Nagasaki are beheaded.
  • August 20 – Second Bishops' War: A Scottish Covenanter army invades Northumberland in England.[5]
  • August 28 – Second Bishops' War – Battle of Newburn: The Scottish Covenanter army led by Alexander Leslie defeats the English army near Newburn in England.[5]
  • September – Sebastien Manrique reaches Dhaka.
  • October 26 – The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between the Scottish Covenanters and Charles I of England.[5]
  • November 3 – The English Long Parliament is summoned;[5] it will not be dissolved for 20 years.
  • December 1
    • End of the Iberian Union: A revolution organized by the nobility and bourgeoisie causes John IV of Portugal to be acclaimed as king, thus ending 60 years of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain, and the rule of the House of Habsburg (also called the Philippine Dynasty). The Spanish Habsburgs do not recognize Portugal's new dynasty, the House of Braganza, until the end of the Portuguese Restoration War in 1668.
    • Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg begins to rule.

Date unknown[]

  • The first university in Finland, the Academy of Åbo, is founded in Turku.
  • The first book to be printed in North America (the Bay Psalm Book) is published.
  • The first known European coffeehouse opens in Venice.[6]


Births[]

Philippe de La Hire
Bernard Lamy
Pieter Cornelisz van Slingelandt
George Hooper

January–March[]

April–June[]

  • April 1
    • Sigismund Casimir, Crown Prince of Poland (d. 1647)
    • Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (d. 1697)
  • April 4 – Gaspar Sanz, Spanish composer, musician, priest (d. 1710)
  • April 6 – Thomas Lloyd, Quaker preacher of provincial Pennsylvania (d. 1694)
  • April 7 – Ludmilla Elisabeth of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German Countess and hymn poet (d. 1672)
  • April 18 – Étienne Chauvin, French Protestant divine (d. 1725)
  • April 22 – Mariana Alcoforado, Portuguese nun (d. 1723)
  • April 23 – Wolfgang William Romer, Dutch military engineer (d. 1713)
  • April 26 – Frederick, Count of Nassau-Weilburg, ruling Count of Nassau-Weilburg (1655-1675) (d. 1675)
  • April 30 – Nicolas Letourneux, French preacher, ascetical writer (d. 1686)
  • May 31 – Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki, King of Poland (d. 1673)
  • June 5 – Pu Songling, Qing Dynasty Chinese writer (d. 1715)
  • June 9 – Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1705)
  • June 15 – Bernard Lamy, French Oratorian mathematician and theologian (d. 1715)
  • June 16 – Jacques Ozanam, French mathematician (d. 1718)
  • June 19 – Thomas Widdrington, English politician (d. 1660)
  • June 21 – Abraham Mignon, Dutch golden age painter (d. 1679)
  • June 29 – Elizabeth Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield, second wife of Philip Stanhope (d. 1665)[7]

July–September[]

October–December[]

Date unknown[]

Deaths[]

Philip Massinger
Peter Paul Rubens
  • January 1 – Johann Wilhelm Baur, German artist (b. 1607)
  • January 14 – Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, English lawyer and judge (b. 1578)
  • January 25 – Robert Burton, English scholar (b. 1577)
  • January 26 – Jindřich Matyáš Thurn, Swedish general (b. 1567)
  • February 2 – Jeanne de Lestonnac, French saint (b. 1556)
  • February 9 – Murad IV, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1612)
  • March 13 – Isaac Manasses de Pas, Marquis de Feuquieres, French soldier (b. 1590)
  • March 17 – Philip Massinger, English dramatist (b. 1583)[8]
  • March 20 – Michael Reyniersz Pauw, Dutch businessman (b. 1590)
  • April – Uriel da Costa, Portuguese philosopher (suicide) (b. 1585)
  • April 2 – Paul Fleming, German physician and poet (b. 1609)
  • April 5 – Petrus Kirstenius, German physician and orientalist (b. 1577)
  • April 7 – Wilhelm Kettler, Duke of Courland (b. 1574)
  • April 10 – Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer (b. 1578)
  • April 16 – Countess Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau (b. 1579)
  • May 29 – Elisabet Juliana Banér, Swedish noble (b. 1600)
  • May 30 – Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (b. 1577)
  • May 31 – Zeynab Begum, Safavid princess (date of birth unknown)[9]
  • June 3 - Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (b. 1584)
  • July 13 – Henry Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz, Stadtholder of Groningen, Friesland and Drenthe (b. 1612)
  • July 25 – Fabio Colonna, Italian scientist (b. 1567)
  • August 30 – Thomas Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Haddington, Scottish noble (b. 1600)
  • September 10 – Anthony Abdy, English merchant (b. 1579)
  • September 25 – Philippe-Charles, 3rd Count of Arenberg (b. 1587)
  • September 30
    • Charles, Duke of Guise (b. 1571)
    • Jacopo da Empoli, Italian painter (b. 1551)
  • October 1 – Claudio Achillini, Italian philosopher, theologian, mathematician, poet, jurist (b. 1574)
  • October 6
  • October 7 – Lord William Howard, English nobleman (b. 1563)
  • October 19 – Aubert Miraeus, Belgian historian (b. 1573)
  • October 20 – John Ball, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1585)
  • November 5 – Anne of England, daughter of King Charles I (b. 1637)
  • November 19 – Krzysztof Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (b. 1585)
  • November 22 – Mario Minniti, Italian artist (b. 1577)
  • November 27 – Gabriel Gustafsson Oxenstierna, Swedish statesman (b. 1587)
  • December 1
    • Pieter van den Broecke, Dutch merchant (b. 1585)
    • George William, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1595)
    • Miguel de Vasconcelos, portuguese prime minister (b. 1590)
  • December 3 – Christopher Wandesford, English administrator and politician (b. 1592)
  • December 15 – Willem Baudartius, Dutch theologian (b. 1565)
  • December 22 – Claude de Bullion, French Minister of Finance (b. 1569)
  • December 30 – John Francis Regis, French saint (b. 1597)
  • December 31 – Ernest Christopher, Count of Rietberg (1625–1640) (b. 1606)
  • date unknown
    • Bombogor, Evenk chief
    • Adriana Basile, Italian composer (b. 1580)
  • possible – John Ford, English dramatist (b. 1586)

References[]

  1. ^ The Cambridge History of India. Cambridge University Press. 1963. p. 44.
  2. ^ Coates (2003). "Law and the Cultural Production of Race and Racialized Systems of Oppression" (PDF). American Behavioral Scientist. 47 (3): 329–351. doi:10.1177/0002764203256190. S2CID 146357699.
  3. ^ Simo Tuomola, Simo: Abo – Suomen metropoli: 1600-luku Turussa, p. 46. (in Finnish)
  4. ^ Kuninkaallinen Turun akatemia Archived November 10, 2020, at the Wayback Machine – Arppeanum (in Finnish)
  5. ^ a b c d "British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate 1638-60". Archived from the original on April 19, 2012. Retrieved August 28, 2013.
  6. ^ Elliott Horowitz (1989). "Coffee, Coffeehouses, and the Nocturnal Rituals of Early Modern Jewry". AJS Review. Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Association for Jewish Studies. 14 (1): 38. JSTOR 1486283.
  7. ^ MacLeod, Catharine (2001). Painted ladies : women at the court of Charles II. London: National Portrait Gallery. ISBN 9781855143210.
  8. ^ John William Robertson Scott (1949). The Countryman's Breakfast Poser and Townsman's Rural Remembrancer. Oxford University Press. p. 51.
  9. ^ Ghereghlou, Kioumars (2016). "ZAYNAB BEGUM". Encyclopaedia Iranica.
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