1641

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
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  • 1639
  • 1640
  • 1641
  • 1642
  • 1643
  • 1644
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1641 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1641
MDCXLI
Ab urbe condita2394
Armenian calendar1090
ԹՎ ՌՂ
Assyrian calendar6391
Balinese saka calendar1562–1563
Bengali calendar1048
Berber calendar2591
English Regnal year16 Cha. 1 – 17 Cha. 1
Buddhist calendar2185
Burmese calendar1003
Byzantine calendar7149–7150
Chinese calendar庚辰年 (Metal Dragon)
4337 or 4277
    — to —
辛巳年 (Metal Snake)
4338 or 4278
Coptic calendar1357–1358
Discordian calendar2807
Ethiopian calendar1633–1634
Hebrew calendar5401–5402
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1697–1698
 - Shaka Samvat1562–1563
 - Kali Yuga4741–4742
Holocene calendar11641
Igbo calendar641–642
Iranian calendar1019–1020
Islamic calendar1050–1051
Japanese calendarKan'ei 18
(寛永１８年)
Javanese calendar1562–1563
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3974
Minguo calendar271 before ROC
民前271年
Nanakshahi calendar173
Thai solar calendar2183–2184
Tibetan calendar阳金龙年
(male Iron-Dragon)
1767 or 1386 or 614
    — to —
阴金蛇年
(female Iron-Snake)
1768 or 1387 or 615
November 4: Battle of Cape St. Vincent

1641 (MDCXLI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1641st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 641st year of the 2nd millennium, the 41st year of the 17th century, and the 2nd year of the 1640s decade. As of the start of 1641, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events[]

January–June[]

  • January 4 – The stratovolcano Mount Parker (Philippines) undergoes a major eruption.
  • January 18 – Pau Claris proclaims the Catalan Republic.
  • February 16 – King Charles I of England gives his assent to the Triennial Act, reluctantly committing himself to parliamentary sessions of at least fifty days, every three years.[1]

July–December[]

  • July 5
    • The Norwegian city of Kristiansand is founded by King Christian IV of Denmark-Norway.[citation needed]
    • In England, the Long Parliament abolishes the Court of Star Chamber.[2]
  • July 12 – Portugal and the Dutch Republic sign a Treaty of Offensive and Defensive Alliance at The Hague. The treaty is not respected by both parties, and as a consequence has no effect in the Portuguese colonies (Brazil and Angola) that are under Dutch rule.
  • August 10
  • October 23 – Irish Rebellion of 1641 breaks out: Irish Catholic gentry, chiefly in Ulster, revolt against the English administration and Scottish settlers in Ireland.
  • October 24 – The Irish rebel Sir Felim O'Neill of Kinard issues the Proclamation of Dungannon.
  • November 4 – Battle of Cape St Vincent: A Dutch fleet, with Michiel de Ruyter as third in command, beats back a Spanish-Dunkirker fleet off the coast of Portugal.
  • November 22 – The Long Parliament of England passes the Grand Remonstrance, part of a series of legislation designed to contain Charles I's absolutist tendencies.

Date unknown[]

  • The Dutch found a trading colony on Dejima, near Nagasaki, Japan.
  • Portugal is ousted from Malacca by the Dutch.
  • 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.
  • René Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy is originally published.
  • The town of Falun, Sweden is given city rights by Queen Kristina.
  • English law makes witchcraft a capital crime.
  • A massive epidemic breaks out in northern and central China, just three years before the fall of the Ming Dynasty. It races south down along the Grand Canal of China and the densely populated settlements there, from the northern terminus at Beijing, to the fertile Jiangnan region. In some local areas and towns it wipes out 90% of the local populace.


Births[]

Robert Sibbald
Regnier de Graaf
Henri Arnaud
Empress Xiaohuizhang

January–March[]

  • January 6 – Wolfgang Dietrich of Castell-Remlingen, German nobleman (d. 1709)
  • January 13 – Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of Marchmont, Scottish statesman (d. 1724)
  • January 18 – François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (d. 1691)
  • February 2 – Claude de la Colombière, French Jesuit priest and saint (d. 1682)
  • February 3 – Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp (1659–1695) (d. 1695)
  • February 4 – Jerolim Kavanjin, Croatian poet (d. 1714)
  • February 8
    • Richard Jones, 1st Earl of Ranelagh, Irish politician (d. 1712)
    • Robert Knox, English sea captain in the service of the British East India Company (d. 1720)
  • February 24 – Gabriel Tammelin, Lutheran clergyman (d. 1695)
  • March 14 – Hyeonjong of Joseon, 18th monarch of the Korean Joseon Dynasty (d. 1674)
  • March 19 – Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Muslim scholar (d. 1731)
  • March 29 – Johann Zahn, 17th-century German author of Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus Sive Telescopium (d. 1707)

April–June[]

  • April 4 – Sir James Oxenden, 2nd Baronet, English politician (d. 1708)
  • April 8
    • Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English politician and army officer (d. 1704)
    • (bapt.) – William Wycherley, English playwright (d. 1716)
  • April 15 – Robert Sibbald, Scottish physician and antiquarian (d. 1722)
  • May – Juan Núñez de la Peña, Spanish historian (d. 1721)
  • May 8 – Nicolaes Witsen, Mayor of Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1717)
  • May 16 – Dudley North, English economist, merchant and politician (d. 1691)
  • May 17 – Pierre Monier, French painter (d. 1703)
  • May 18 – Olimpia Giustiniani, Italian noblewoman (d. 1729)
  • May 28 – Johann Weikhard von Valvasor, Slovenian polymath (d. 1693)
  • May 31 – Patriarch Dositheos II of Jerusalem, Greek Orthodox Patriarch (d. 1707)
  • June 15 – Bernard de la Monnoye, French lawyer (d. 1728)
  • June 19 – Jan Claus, leading Quaker in Amsterdam (d. 1729)
  • June 28 – Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien, French-born Polish consort to King John III Sobieski (d. 1716)
  • June 29 – Pierre Cholonec, French Jesuit missionary and biographer in New France (d. 1723)
  • June 30 – Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, English general (d. 1719)

July–September[]

October–December[]

Deaths[]

Anthony van Dyck
Francis van Aarssens

Date unknown[]

  • Estêvão de Brito, Portuguese composer (b. c. 1570)
  • Arthur Johnston, Scottish physician and poet (b. c. 1579)
  • Mukai Shogen Tadakatsu, Japanese admiral (b. 1582)
  • Harjol, Chinese concubine of Hong Taiji (b. 1609)

References[]

  1. ^ Fritze, Ronald (1996). Historical dictionary of Stuart England, 1603-1689. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 311. ISBN 9780313283918.
  2. ^ BBC History, July 2011, p. 12.
  3. ^ "The Treaty of London, 1641". BCW Project. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
  4. ^ Eduardo, Leigh (2005). Mistresses : true stories of seduction, power and ambition. London: Michael O'Mara. p. 46. ISBN 9781843171416.
  5. ^ Sarra Copia Sulam (November 15, 2009). Jewish Poet and Intellectual in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Works of Sarra Copia Sulam in Verse and Prose. University of Chicago Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-226-77987-4.
  6. ^ "Anthony van Dyck". Netherlands Institute of Art. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
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