1643

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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).

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Events of 1643

January - June

July - December

Undated

Ongoing events

Births

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 Battle of Middlewich in the English Civil War. During this battle the Roundheads routed the Cavaliers at Middlewich in Cheshire, England

★ May 14 - Louis XIV (of France) succeeds Louis XIII.

★ May 19 - Battle of Rocroi: French victory over the Spanish at Rocroi, France.

★ 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

★ July 5 - English Civil War: The Battle of Lansdowne is indecisive.

★ 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.

★ September 20 - Royalists withdraw to end further bloodshed after the First Battle of Newbury.

★ October 28 - The Dutch corsairs end their occupation of Valdivia.

★ November 14 - Empress Meishō abdicates and Emperor Go-Kōmyō accedes to the throne of Japan.

★ 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.

★ Austro-Bavarian army defeats French at Duttlingen.

★ Evangelista Torricelli invents the mercury barometer.

★ New England Confederation is formed.

★ Baden-Baden pillaged by the French.

★ John Colgan published the first two volumes of the ''Acta Sanctorum''.

★ 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 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

★ English Civil War (1642-1649)

★ 30 Year's War (1618-1648)

Births

★ January 4 (N.S.) - Sir Isaac Newton, mathematician and physicist (died 1727)

★ February 16 - John Sharp, English Archbishop of Yorkshire (died 1714)

★ February 25 - Ahmed II, Ottoman Sultan (died 1695)

★ March 25 - Louis Moréri, French encylopedist (died 1680)

★ April 3 - Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine, general of the Holy Roman Empire (died 1690)

★ May 7 - Stephanus Van Cortlandt, first native Mayor of New York (died 1700)

★ August 12 - King Afonso VI of Portugal (died 1683)

★ September 18 - Gilbert Burnet, Scottish Bishop of Salisbury (died 1715)

★ September 27 - Solomon Stoddard, American minister (died 1729)

★ October 14 - Bahadur Shah I, Mughal Emperor of India (died 1712)

★ November 1 - John Strype, English historian and biographer (died 1737)

★ November 22 - René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French explorer (died 1687)
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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:

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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

★ 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

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★ William Cartwright, English dramatist (b. 1611)

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★ 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)
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