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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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Events of 1641

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1641

January - June

★ January 17 - Pau Claris proclaims the Catalan Republic.

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.

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.

★ The Japanese policy of Sakoku was first implemented.

Births

★ 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)

★ September - Nehemiah Grew, biologist (d. 1712)

★ October 5 - Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, 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)
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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 and geographer (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, Flemish painter (born 1599)
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