- 1642
Year 1642 (MDCXLII) was a
common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of theGregorian calendar (or acommon year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slowerJulian calendar ).Events of 1642
January - June
*January 4 -First English Civil War : Charles I attempts to arrest 5 leading members of theLong Parliament , but they escape.
*March 1 - Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known asYork, Maine ) becomes the first incorporated city in America.
*March 19 - The citizens ofGalway seize an English naval ship, close the town gates and declare support forConfederate Ireland .
*May 17 -Sieur de Maisonneuve founds the Ville Marie deMontreal .
*May 30 - All honours granted by Charles I from this date onward are retrospectively annulled by Parliament.July - December
*July -First English Civil War : Charles I besieges Hull in an attempt to gain control of its arsenal.
*August 4 - Lord Forbes relieves Forthill and besiegesGalway .
*August 21 - FirstBattle of Lostwithiel .
*August 22 - King Charles I raises the royal battle standard overNottingham Castle , so declaring war on his own Parliament.
*September 2 - Parliament orders the theatres of London closed, effectively ending the era ofEnglish Renaissance theatre .
*September 7 - Lord Forbes raises his unsuccessful siege ofGalway .
*September 8 -Thomas Granger is executed by hanging at Plymouth, Massachusetts for confessing to numerous acts of bestiality.
*October 23 -First English Civil War -Battle of Edgehill : Royalists andParliamentarians battle to a draw.
*November 13 -First English Civil War -Battle of Turnham Green : The Royalist forces withdraw in face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to takeLondon .
*November 24 -Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the islandVan Diemen's Land (later renamedTasmania ).
*December 13 -Abel Tasman is the first recorded European to sightNew Zealand .Undated
* The Dutch drive
Spain fromTaiwan .
* Bro/broo inSweden is granted the city rights for the second time and takes the nameKristinehamn .
*Rembrandt Harmenzoon van Rijn finishes his painting "The Night Watch".
* TheManchu under their leaderHuang Taiji raid the Ming Chinese province ofShandong from their base inManchuria . Two years laterBeijing falls to rebels, theChongzhen Emperor commits suicide, and theShunzhi Emperor becomes the first Qing Emperor to rule overChina proper .
* A juvenile is executed for the first time in America, for the crime of bestiality with a cow and a horse. [cite book |last=Samaha |first=Joel |title=Criminal Law |accessyear=2007 |accessmonth=November |edition=Ninth |publisher=Thomas/Watson |isbn=0-495-095939-7 |pages=60 |chapter=2 ]
*Kaifeng flood of 1642 : Some 300,000 people die when theMing Dynasty army inChina intentionally breaks the dams and dykes of theYellow River to drown the large rebel force ofLi Zicheng .
*Isaac Aboab da Fonseca is appointed rabbi inPernambuco ,Brazil , thus becoming the first rabbi of the Americas.Births
*January 2 -Mehmed IV ,Ottoman Sultan (d.1693 )
*January 11 -Mary Carleton , impostor (d.1673 )
*February 18 -Marie Champmeslé , French actress (d.1698 )
*April 15 -Suleiman II ,Ottoman Sultan (d.1691 )
*June 20 -George Hickes , English minister and scholar (d.1715 )
*August 14 -Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d.1723 )
*November 11 -André Charles Boulle , French cabinet-maker (d.1732 )
*December 6 -Johann Christoph Bach , German composer (d.1703 )
*December 25 (O.S.) -Isaac Newton , mathematician and physicist (d.1727 )
*December 30 -Vincenzo da Filicaja , Italian poet (d.1707 )
*"date unknown"
**John Archdale , British colonial governor (d.1717 )
**Abdul-Qader Bedil , Persian Sufi poet (d.1720 )
**Bonaventure Giffard , English Catholic priest (d.1734 )
**Josep Romaguera , Catalan author (d.1723 )
**Albert Janse Ryckman , Mayor of Albany, Prominent Brewermaster (d.1737 )Deaths
*January 8 -Galileo Galilei , Italian astronomer and physicist (b.1564 )
*February 7 -William Bedell , English clergyman (b.1571 )
*April 30 -Dmitry Pozharsky , Russian prince (b.1578 )
*July 3 -Marie de' Medici , queen ofHenry IV of France (b.1573 )
*August 18 -Guido Reni , Italian painter (b.1575 )
*September 3 -Elisabeth of Nassau , regent of Sedan (b.1577 )
*September 12 -Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars , French conspirator (b.1620 )
*September 29 -Rene Goupil , the first of theCanadian Martyrs (b.1608 )
*October 24 -Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey Fen drainage adventurer and soldier (b.1583 )
*November 1 -Jean Nicolet , French explorer (b.1598 )
*November 7 -Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester , English politician (b. c.1563 )
*December 4 -Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu , French statesman (b.1585 )References
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