1641
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| Centuries: | 16th century - 17th century - 18th century |
| Decades: | 1610s 1620s 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s |
| Years: | 1638 1639 1640 - 1641 - 1642 1643 1644 |
| 1641 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
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).
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[edit] Events of 1641
[edit] January - June
- January 17 - Pau Claris proclaims the Catalan Republic.
[edit] July - December
- August 10 - Charles I of England flees London for the north.
- 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.
[edit] Undated
- The Long Parliament passes a series of legislation designed to contain Charles I's absolutist tendencies.
- 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.
- 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.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1641 MDCXLI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2394 |
| Armenian calendar | 1090 ԹՎ ՌՂ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -203 – -202 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2185 |
| Chinese calendar | 4277/4337-11-20 (庚辰年十一月二十日) — to —
4278/4338-11-29(辛巳年十一月廿九日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1633 – 1634 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5401 – 5402 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1696 – 1697 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1563 – 1564 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4742 – 4743 |
| Holocene calendar | 11641 |
| Iranian calendar | 1019 – 1020 |
| Islamic calendar | 1050 – 1051 |
| Japanese calendar | Kan'ei 18 (寛永18年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2301 (皇紀2301年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 11641 |
| Julian calendar | 1686 |
| Korean calendar | 3974 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2184 |
- January 18 - François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (d. 1691)
- 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 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)
- October 5 - Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, mistress of Louis XIV of France (d. 1707)
- November 23 - Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (d. 1720)
[edit] Unknown dates
- Pierre Allix, French Protestant clergyman (d. 1717)
- Nehemiah Grew, biologist (d. 1712)
- See also Category:1641 births.
[edit] 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 (born 1587)
- April 13 - Richard Montagu, English clergyman (born 1577)
- April 15 - Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (born 1581)
- May 10 - Johan Banér, Swedish soldier (born 1596)
- May 12 - Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, English statesman (born 1593)
- 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)
- December 9 - Sir Anthony van Dyck, Dutch painter (born 1599)
[edit] Unknown dates
- (none)
- See also Category:1641 deaths.
