1641

Year 1641 (MDCXLI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1641

January - June

• January 17 - Pau Claris proclaims the Catalan Republic.

July - December

• August 10 - Charles I of England flees London for the north.
• October - Beginning of the Irish Rebellion of 1641: revolt of the Gaelic Irish in Ulster against the English settlers.
• November 4 - A Dutch fleet, with Michiel de Ruyter as third in command, beat back a Spanish-Dunkirker fleet in an action at Cape St Vincent.
• November 22 - The Long Parliament passes the Grand Remonstrance, part of a series of legislation designed to contain Charles I's absolutist tendencies.

Undated

• Commons pass the Triennial Act, which compels the king to summon Parliament every 3 years in England.
• 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.
• René Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy was originally published.
• The Norwegian city of Kristiansand was founded by King Christian IV.
• The Swedish town of Falun was 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 raced 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 wiped out 90% of the local populace.

Births

• 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 Catholic priest (d. 1682)
• 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 - Juan Núñez de la Peña, Spanish historian (d. 1721)
• 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)
• September - Nehemiah Grew, biologist (d. 1712)
• September 7 - Tokugawa Ietsuna, Japanese shogun (d. 1680)
• October 5 - Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, mistress of Louis XIV of France (d. 1707)
• November 23 - Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (d. 1720)
• date unknown
  • Pierre Allix, French Protestant clergyman (d. 1717)
  • Diego Ladrón de Guevara, viceroy of Peru (d. 1718)
  • Dodo von Knyphausen, German nobleman (d. 1698)
  • Empress XiaoHui, consort of the Shunzhi Emperor of China (d. 1717)

Deaths

• January 3 - Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomer (born c. 1618)
• January 11 - Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (born 1583)
• March 8 - Xu Xiake, Chinese adventurer and geographer (born 1587)
• April 13 - Richard Montagu, English clergyman (born 1577)
• April 15 - Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (born 1581)
• April 27 - Wilhelm von Rath, German soldier and scholar (born 1585)
• May 10 - Johan Banér, Swedish soldier (born 1596)
• May 12 - Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, English statesman (born 1593)
• August 9 - Augustine Baker, Welsh Benedictine mystic (born 1575)
• September 10 - Ambrose Barlow, English Catholic martyr (born 1585) (executed)
• October 31 - Cornelis Jol, Dutch naval commander and privateer (born 1597)
• November 9
  • Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, Governor of the Netherlands and Bishop of Toledo (born c.1609)
  • Maren Spliid, Danish alleged witch (born c. 1600) (executed)
• December 9 - Sir Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (born 1599)
• date unknown
  • {[Estêvão de Brito]], Portuguese composer (b. c. 1570)
  • Mukai Shogen Tadakatsu, Japanese admireal (b. 1582)af:1641

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