1642

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Year '1642' ('MDCXLII') was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1642

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1642

January - June

★ January 4 - Charles I attempts to arrest five leading members of the Long Parliament, but they escape. A precursor to English Civil War.

★ March 1 - Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine) becomes the first incorporated city in America

★ March 19 - the citizens of Galway seize an English naval ship, close the town gates and declare support for Confederate Ireland.

★ May 17 - Sieur de Maisonneuve founds the Ville Marie de Montréal.

July - December

★ July - Charles I besieges Hull in an attempt to gain control of its arsenal.

★ August 4 - Lord Forbes relieves Forthill and besieges Galway.

★ August 22 - King Charles I raised the royal battle standard over Nottingham Castle, so declaring war on his own Parliament.

★ September 2 - Parliament orders the theatres of London closed, effectively ending the era of English Renaissance theatre.

★ September 7 - Lord Forbes raises his unsuccessful siege of Galway.

★ September 8 - Thomas Granger executed by hanging at Plymouth, Massachusetts for confessing to numerous acts of bestiality.

★ September 29 - Rene Goupil the first of the Canadian Martyrs died in 1642 .

★ October 23 - Battle of Edgehill the first pitched battle of the First English Civil War.

★ November 13 - At the Battle of Turnham Green of the First English Civil War the Royalist forces withdrew in face of the Parliamentarian army and failed to take London.

★ November 24 - Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).

Undated

★ The Dutch drive Spain from Taiwan.

★ Abel Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.

★ Blaise Pascal produces a mechanical adding machine (the "Pascaline").

★ First Battle of Lostwithiel.

★ Jean-Baptiste Tavernier brings the Hope diamond to Europe.

★ Peter Stuyvesant becomes the governor of Curaçao

★ Bro/broo in Sweden is granted the city rights for the second time and takes the name Kristinehamn.

★ Rembrandt Harmenzoon van Rijn finishes his painting "The Night Watch".

Births

★ January 2 - Mehmed IV, Ottoman Sultan (died 1693)

★ February 18 - Marie Champmeslé, French actress (died 1698)

★ April 15 - Suleiman II, Ottoman Sultan (died 1691)

★ June 20 - George Hickes, English minister and scholar (died 1715)

★ August 14 - Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1723)

★ December 6 - Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (died 1703)

★ December 25 (O.S.) - Isaac Newton, mathematician and physicist (died 1727)

★ December 30 - Vicenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (died 1707)
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Deaths

★ January 8 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist (born 1564)

★ February 7 - William Bedell, English clergyman (born 1571)

★ April 30 - Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (born 1578)

★ July 3 - Marie de' Medici, queen of Henry IV of France (born 1573)

★ August 18 - Guido Reni, Italian painter (born 1575)

★ September 3 - Elisabeth of Nassau, regent of Sedan (born 1577)

★ September 12 - Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, French conspirator (born 1620)

★ October 24 - Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey Fen drainage adventurer and soldier (born 1583)

★ November 1 - Jean Nicolet, French explorer (born 1598)

★ November 7 - Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, English politician (born c. 1563)

★ December 4 - Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (born 1585)
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