1643

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1610s  1620s  1630s  – 1640s –  1650s  1660s  1670s
Years:	1640 1641 1642 – 1643 – 1644 1645 1646

1643 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1643 (MDCXLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1643 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 1.4 Ongoing events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events of 1643

January–June

• January 21 – Abel Tasman discovers the island of Tonga.
• February 6 – Abel Tasman discovers the Fiji islands.
• March 13 – First English Civil War – First Battle of Middlewich: The Roundheads rout the Cavaliers at Middlewich in Cheshire, England.
• May 14 – Louis XIV (of France) succeeds Louis XIII.
• May 19 – Battle of Rocroi: The French defeat the Spanish at Rocroi, France.
• June 30 – First English Civil War – Battle of Adwalton Moor: Cavaliers (supporters of Charles I) gain control of Yorkshire.

July–December

• July 5 – First English Civil War – Battle of Lansdowne: Royalists and Parliamentarians battle to a draw.
• July 13 – First English Civil War – Battle of Roundway Down: In England, Lord Henry Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, wins a crushing victory over the Parliamentarian Sir William Waller.
• September 20 – First English Civil War – First Battle of Newbury: Royalists withdraw to end further bloodshed.
• September 21 Huang Taiji dies.
• October 28 – The Dutch corsairs end their occupation of Valdivia in what is now Chile.
• November 14 – Empress Meishō abdicates and Emperor Go-Kōmyō accedes to the throne of Japan.
• November 24 – Battle of Tuttlingen: France is defeated by forces of the Holy Roman Empire.

Undated

• An Calbhach mac Aodha O Conchobhair Donn is inaugurated as the last king of Connacht.
• Evangelista Torricelli invents the mercury barometer.
• The New England Confederation is formed.
• Baden-Baden is pillaged by the French.
• Jean Bolland publishes the first two volumes of the Acta Sanctorum (in Antwerp). This is the beginning of the Bollandists' work.
• Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve places the first cross atop Mount Royal.
• Åmål is granted its city charter.
• Miyamoto Musashi dictates The Book of Five Rings (Go Rin No Sho) to his student, completing it in 1654 just before his death.
• Claudio Monteverdi's opera l'Incoronazione di Poppea is first performed.
• Hong Taiji, Emperor of the Qing Dynasty of the Manchu dies and is succeeded by his 5-year-old son, the later Shunzhi Emperor of China.
• Roger Williams, a co-founder of Rhode Island, publishes A Key into the Language of America.

Ongoing events

• English Civil War (1642–1649)
• Thirty Years' War (1618–1648)

Births

1643 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1643 MDCXLIII
Ab urbe condita	2396
Armenian calendar	1092 ԹՎ ՌՂԲ
Bahá'í calendar	-201 – -200
Bengali calendar	1050
Berber calendar	2593
Buddhist calendar	2187
Burmese calendar	1005
Byzantine calendar	7151 – 7152
Chinese calendar	壬午年閏十一月十一日 (4279/4339-intercalary 11-11) — to — 癸未年十一月廿一日 (4280/4340-11-21)
Coptic calendar	1359 – 1360
Ethiopian calendar	1635 – 1636
Hebrew calendar	5403 – 5404
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1699 – 1700
- Shaka Samvat	1565 – 1566
- Kali Yuga	4744 – 4745
Holocene calendar	11643
Iranian calendar	1021 – 1022
Islamic calendar	1052 – 1053
Japanese calendar	Kan'ei 20 (寛永20年)
Korean calendar	3976
Thai solar calendar	2186

• January 4 – Isaac Newton, English astronomer, mathematician and physicist (d. 1727)
• February 16 – John Sharp, English Archbishop of Yorkshire (d. 1714)
• February 25 – Ahmed II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1695)
• March 25 – Louis Moréri, French encylopedist (d. 1680)
• April 3 – Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine, general of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1690)
• May 7 – Stephanus Van Cortlandt, first native Mayor of New York (d. 1700)
• August 6 – James Thomas Chapman 1st Duke of Kidderminster, Reported finder of the Fountain of Youth (d. Unknown)
• August 12 – King Afonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683)
• September 18 – Gilbert Burnet, Scottish Bishop of Salisbury (d. 1715)
• September 27 – Solomon Stoddard, American minister (d. 1729)
• October 14 – Bahadur Shah I, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1712)
• November 1 – John Strype, English historian and biographer (d. 1737)
• November 22 – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French explorer (d. 1687)

See also Category: 1643 births.

Deaths

• February 25 – Marco da Gagliano, Italian composer (b. 1582)
• March 1 – Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer (b. 1583)
• April 4 – Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (b. 1583)
• April 20 – Christoph Demantius, German composer (b. 1567)
• May 14 – King Louis XIII of France (b. 1601)
• July 25 – Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, English statesman (b. 1584)
• August 20 – Anne Hutchinson, English Puritan preacher (b. 1591)
• September 15 – Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician (b. 1566)
• September 20, at the Battle of Newbury:
  • Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, English politician and writer
  • Robert Dormer, 1st Earl of Carnarvon
  • Henry Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland
• September 21 – Emperor Hong Taiji of China (b. 1592)
• November 3 – John Bainbridge, English astronomer (b. 1583)
• November 3 – Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (b. 1577)
• November 16 – Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, Marshal of France (b. 1602)
• November 29
  • William Cartwright, English dramatist (b. 1611)
  • Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (b. 1567)
• December 8 – John Pym, English statesman (b. 1583)
• December 11 – Herman Wrangel, Swedish soldier and politician
• December 30 – Giovanni Baglione, Italian painter and historian of art (b. 1566)

See also Category:1643 deaths.