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| Centuries: | 16th century - 17th century - 18th century |
| Decades: | 1610s 1620s 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s
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| Years: | 1639 1640 1641 - 1642 - 1643 1644 1645 |
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| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1642 (MDCXLII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1642
[edit] January - June
- January 4 - Charles I attempts to arrest five leading members of the Long Parliament, but they escape. A precursor to English Civil War.
- March 1 - Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine) becomes the first incorporated city in America
- March 19 - the citizens of Galway seize an English naval ship, close the town gates and declare support for Confederate Ireland.
- May 17 - Sieur de Maisonneuve founds the Ville Marie de Montréal.
[edit] July - December
- July - Charles I besieges Hull in an attempt to gain control of its arsenal.
- August 4 - Lord Forbes relieves Forthill and besieges Galway.
- August 22 - King Charles I raised the royal battle standard over Nottingham Castle, so declaring war on his own Parliament.
- September 2 - Parliament orders the theatres of London closed, effectively ending the era of English Renaissance theatre.
- September 7 - Lord Forbes raises his unsuccessful siege of Galway.
- September 8 - Thomas Granger executed by hanging at Plymouth, Massachusetts for confessing to numerous acts of bestiality.
- September 29 - Rene Goupil the first of the Canadian Martyrs died in 1642 .
- October 23 - Battle of Edgehill the first pitched battle of the First English Civil War.
- November 13 - At the Battle of Turnham Green of the First English Civil War the Royalist forces withdrew in face of the Parliamentarian army and failed to take London.
- November 24 - Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).
- December 13 - Abel Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.
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- The Dutch drive Spain from Taiwan.
- First Battle of Lostwithiel.
- Jean-Baptiste Tavernier brings the Hope diamond to Europe.
- 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.
- Rembrandt Harmenzoon van Rijn finishes his painting "The Night Watch".
- The Manchu under their leader Huang Taiji raid the Ming Chinese province of Shandong from their base in Manchuria. Two years later Beijing would fall to rebels, the Chongzhen Emperor would commit suicide, and the Shunzhi Emperor would become the first Qing Emperor to rule over China proper.
- The first juvenile in America is put to death under the crime of bestiality with a cow and a horse.[1]
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1642 MDCXLII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2395 |
| Armenian calendar | 1091 ԹՎ ՌՂԱ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -202 – -201 |
| Berber calendar | 2592 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2186 |
| Burmese calendar | 1004 |
| Chinese calendar | 4278/4338-12-1 (辛巳年十二月初一日) — to — 4279/4339-intercalary 11-10(壬午年閏十一月初十日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1358 – 1359 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1634 – 1635 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5402 – 5403 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1697 – 1698 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1564 – 1565 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4743 – 4744 |
| Holocene calendar | 11642 |
| Iranian calendar | 1020 – 1021 |
| Islamic calendar | 1051 – 1052 |
| Japanese calendar | Kan'ei 19 (寛永19年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2302 (皇紀2302年) |
| Julian calendar | 1687 |
| Korean calendar | 3975 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2185 |
- January 2 - Mehmed IV, Ottoman Sultan (died 1693)
- February 18 - Marie Champmeslé, French actress (died 1698)
- April 15 - Suleiman II, Ottoman Sultan (died 1691)
- June 20 - George Hickes, English minister and scholar (died 1715)
- August 14 - Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1723)
- December 6 - Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (died 1703)
- December 25 (O.S.) - Isaac Newton, mathematician and physicist (died 1727)
- December 30 - Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (died 1707)
- See also Category:1642 births.
[edit] Deaths
- January 8 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist (born 1564)
- February 7 - William Bedell, English clergyman (born 1571)
- April 30 - Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (born 1578)
- July 3 - Marie de' Medici, queen of Henry IV of France (born 1573)
- August 18 - Guido Reni, Italian painter (born 1575)
- September 3 - Elisabeth of Nassau, regent of Sedan (born 1577)
- September 12 - Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, French conspirator (born 1620)
- October 24 - Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey Fen drainage adventurer and soldier (born 1583)
- November 1 - Jean Nicolet, French explorer (born 1598)
- November 7 - Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, English politician (born c. 1563)
- December 4 - Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (born 1585)
- See also Category:1642 deaths.
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