1643
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This article is about the year 1643.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 16th century – 17th century – 18th century |
| Decades: | 1610s 1620s 1630s – 1640s – 1650s 1660s 1670s |
| Years: | 1640 1641 1642 – 1643 – 1644 1645 1646 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1643 MDCXLIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2396 |
| Armenian calendar | 1092 ԹՎ ՌՂԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6393 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -201–-200 |
| Bengali calendar | 1050 |
| Berber calendar | 2593 |
| English Regnal year | 18 Cha. 1 – 19 Cha. 1 |
| 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 | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 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 |
| Minguo calendar | 269 before ROC 民前269年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2186 |
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Year 1643 (MDCXLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] 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.
- April 1 – Åmål, Sweden is granted its city charter.
- April 28 – Francisco de Lucena, former Portuguese Secretary of State, is beheaded after being charged with treason.
- May 14 – Louis XIV succeeds Louis XIII as King of France at age five. His rule will last until his death at age 77 in 1715, a total of 72 years, which will be the longest reign of any European monarch in recorded history.
- 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.
[edit] 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.
- 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.
- December 25 – Christmas Island is first sighted, by Captain William Mynors of the British East India Company.[1]
[edit] Date unknown
- 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.
- 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.
[edit] Births
- 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 encyclopedist (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 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)
[edit] 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)
- April 28 – Francisco de Lucena, Portuguese Secretary of State (b. 1578?)
- 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)
- approx. date – Henry Glapthorne, English dramatist (b. 1610)
[edit] References
- ^ "Christmas Island history". Australian Government, Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. 2011-11-02. http://www.environment.gov.au/parks/christmas/culture-history/island-history.html. Retrieved 2011-12-09.
