1642

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 ).

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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