1641

Millennium:	2nd millennium
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).

Contents 1 Events of 1641 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events of 1641

January–June

• January 18 – Pau Claris proclaims the Catalan Republic.

July–December

• July 12 – Portugal and the Dutch Republic sign a Treaty of Offensive and Defensive Alliance. The treaty is not respected by both parties and as a consequence it has no effect in the Portuguese colonies (Brazil and Angola) that are under Dutch rule.
• August 10 – Charles I of England flees London for the north.
• October – Irish Rebellion of 1641: The Gaelic Irish in Ulster revolt against the English settlers.
• November 4 – A Dutch fleet, with Michiel de Ruyter as third in command, beats 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

• The English House of Commons pass the Triennial Act, which compels the king to summon Parliament every three 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 is originally published.
• The Norwegian city of Kristiansand is founded by King Christian IV.
• The Swedish town of Falun is given city rights by Queen Kristina.
• English law makes witchcraft a capital crime.
• A massive epidemic breaks out in northern and central China, just 3 years before the fall of the Ming Dynasty. It races 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 wipes out 90% of the local populace.

Births

1641 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1641 MDCXLI
Ab urbe condita	2394
Armenian calendar	1090 ԹՎ ՌՂ
Bahá'í calendar	-203 – -202
Bengali calendar	1048
Berber calendar	2591
Buddhist calendar	2185
Burmese calendar	1003
Byzantine calendar	7149 – 7150
Chinese calendar	庚辰年十一月二十日 (4277/4337-11-20) — to — 辛巳年十一月廿九日 (4278/4338-11-29)
Coptic calendar	1357 – 1358
Ethiopian calendar	1633 – 1634
Hebrew calendar	5401 – 5402
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1697 – 1698
- 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)
Korean calendar	3974
Thai solar calendar	2184

• 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 de Rochechouart de Mortemart, 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 (b. c. 1618)
• January 11 – Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (b. 1583)
• March 8 – Xu Xiake, Chinese adventurer and geographer (b. 1587)
• April 13 – Richard Montagu, English clergyman (b. 1577)
• April 15 – Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (b. 1581)
• April 27 – Wilhelm von Rath, German soldier and scholar (b. 1585)
• May 10 – Johan Banér, Swedish soldier (b. 1596)
• May 12 – Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, English statesman (b. 1593)
• August 9 – Augustine Baker, Welsh Benedictine mystic (b. 1575)
• September 10 – Ambrose Barlow, English Catholic martyr (b. 1585) (executed)
• October 31 – Cornelis Jol, Dutch naval commander and privateer (b. 1597)
• November 9
  • Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, Governor of the Netherlands and Bishop of Toledo (b. c.1609)
  • Maren Spliid, Danish alleged witch (b. c. 1600) (executed)
• December 9 – Shaun Drennan, warrior in Irish Plantations, (b. 1608)
• December 9 – Sir Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (b. 1599)
• date unknown
  • Estêvão de Brito, Portuguese composer (b. c. 1570)
  • Mukai Shogen Tadakatsu, Japanese admiral (b. 1582)