Year in Review |
16th century - 17th century - 18th century |
1641 - 1642 - 1643 - decade 1640s - 17th century Births |
Decades:1600s,1610s,1620s,1630s,1640s,1650s?,1660s,1670s?,1680s,1690s |
1637 1638 1639 1640 1641 1642 1643 1644 1645? 1646 1647? |
Deaths * January 8 - Galileo. |
1642 - decade 1640s - 17th century |
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* Dutch drive Spanish from Taiwan. * Beginning of the English Civil War |
*January 4: Charles I attempts to arrest five leading members of the Long Parliament, but they escape. Beginning of the English Civil War. *The Dutch drive Spain from Taiwan. *The first recorded sighting of New Zealand and Tasmania by Abel Tasman. *Blaise Pascal produces a mechanical adding machine. *Claudio Monteverdi's opera l'Incoronazione di Poppeia is first performed. *First Battle of Lostwithiel? Births *December 25: Isaac Newton, English scientist. Deaths *January 8: Galileo, Italian artist and scientist. |
Decades:1600s,1610s,1620s,1630s,1640s,1650s?,1660s,1670s?,1680s,1690s
1637 1638 1639 1640 1641 1642 1643 1644 1645? 1646 1647?
1642 - decade 1640s - 17th century
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