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Events
The
Long Parliament
passes a series of legislation designed to contain
Charles I
's absolutist tendencies.
August 10
–
Charles I of England
flees London for the north
Irish Rebellion of 1641
- revolt of the Gaelic Irish in
Ulster
against the English settlers
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.
The
Norwegian
city of
Kristiansand
was founded by
King Christian IV
Births
March -
Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester
August 5
-
John Hathorne
, magistrate (†
1717
)
October 5
-
Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan
, mistress of *
Louis XIV of France
Pierre Allix
, French Protestant clergyman
Janez Vajkard Valvasor
, Slovenian nobleman and polymath
Deaths
January 3
-
Jeremiah Horrocks
, English astronomer (* c.
1619
)
May 12
-
Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford
December 9
- Sir
Anthony van Dyck
, painter
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