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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).
Events of 1643
January - June
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January 21 -
Abel Tasman discovers the island of
Tonga.
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February 6 -
Abel Tasman discovers the
Fiji islands.
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March 13 -
First Battle of Middlewich in the
English Civil War. During this battle the
Roundheads routed the
Cavaliers at
Middlewich in
Cheshire,
England
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May 14 -
Louis XIV (of France) succeeds
Louis XIII.
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May 19 -
Battle of Rocroi:
French victory over the
Spanish at
Rocroi,
France.
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June 30 - Cavaliers (supporters of
Charles I in the English Civil War) win the
Battle of Adwalton Moor and gain control of
Yorkshire.
July - December
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July 5 - English Civil War: The
Battle of Lansdowne is indecisive.
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July 13 - 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.
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September 20 - Royalists withdraw to end further bloodshed after the
First Battle of Newbury.
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October 28 - The
Dutch corsairs end their occupation of
Valdivia.
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November 14 -
Empress MeishÅ abdicates and
Emperor Go-KÅmyÅ accedes to the throne of
Japan.
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November 24 - The
Battle of Tuttlingen results in the defeat of
France by forces of the
Holy Roman Empire.
Undated
★ An Calbhach mac Aodha O Conchobhair Donn inaugurated as the last king of
Connacht.
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Austro-Bavarian army defeats
French at
Duttlingen.
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Evangelista Torricelli invents the
mercury barometer.
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New England Confederation is formed.
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Baden-Baden pillaged by the
French.
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John Colgan published the first two volumes of the ''
Acta Sanctorum''.
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Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve places the first cross atop
Mount Royal.
★
Åmål is granted its city charter.
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Miyamoto Musashi dictates ''
The Book of Five Rings''. (''
Go Rin No Sho'') to his student, completing it in 1654 just before his death.
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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 five 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''.
NOvember 29, "Claudio Monteverdi dies."
Ongoing events
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English Civil War (
1642-
1649)
★
30 Year's War (
1618-
1648)
Births
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January 4 (N.S.) -
Sir Isaac Newton, mathematician and physicist (died
1727)
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February 16 -
John Sharp, English Archbishop of Yorkshire (died
1714)
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February 25 -
Ahmed II,
Ottoman Sultan (died
1695)
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March 25 -
Louis Moréri, French encylopedist (died
1680)
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April 3 -
Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine, general of the Holy Roman Empire (died
1690)
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May 7 -
Stephanus Van Cortlandt, first native Mayor of New York (died
1700)
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August 12 - King
Afonso VI of Portugal (died
1683)
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September 18 -
Gilbert Burnet, Scottish Bishop of Salisbury (died
1715)
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September 27 - Solomon Stoddard, American minister (died
1729)
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October 14 -
Bahadur Shah I,
Mughal Emperor of India (died
1712)
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November 1 -
John Strype, English historian and biographer (died
1737)
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November 22 -
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French explorer (died
1687)
: ''See also .''
Deaths
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February 25 -
Marco da Gagliano, Italian composer (b.
1582)
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March 1 -
Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer (b.
1583)
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April 4 -
Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (b.
1583)
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April 20 -
Christoph Demantius, German composer (b.
1567)
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May 14 - King
Louis XIII of France (b.
1601)
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July 25 -
Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, English statesman (b.
1584)
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August 20 -
Anne Hutchinson, English Puritan preacher (b.
1591)
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September 15 -
Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician (b.
1566)
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September 20, at the Battle of Newbury:
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★
Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, English politician and writer
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Robert Dormer, 1st Earl of Carnarvon
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★
Henry Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland
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September 21 - Emperor
Hong Taiji of China (b.
1592)
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November 3 -
John Bainbridge, English astronomer (b.
1583)
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November 3 -
Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (b.
1577)
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November 16 -
Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, Marshal of France (b.
1602)
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November 29
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★
William Cartwright, English dramatist (b.
1611)
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★
Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (b.
1567)
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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 .''
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