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Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades: 1590s 1600s 1610s 1620s 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s
Years: 1637 1638 1639 1640 1641 - 1642 - 1643 1644 1645 1646 1647
Events
- January 4: Charles I attempts to arrest five leading members of the Long Parliament, but they escape. Beginning of English Civil War.
- March 1: Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine) becomes the first incorporated city in America
- May 17 - Sieur de Maisonneuve[?] founds the Ville Marie de Montréal.
- July: Charles I besiges Hull in an attempt to gain control of its arsenal.
- October: Battle of Edgehill.
- The Dutch drive Spain from Taiwan.
- The first recorded sighting of New Zealand and Tasmania by Abel Tasman.
- Blaise Pascal produces a mechanical adding machine (the "Pascaline").
- Claudio Monteverdi's opera l'Incoronazione di Poppeia is first performed.
- First Battle of Lostwithiel
Births
- December 25: Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician and scientist.
Deaths
- January 8: Galileo Galilei, Italian artist and scientist.
- November 11: Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer.
- December 4: Armand-Jean Duplessis Richelieu, French cardinal and statesman
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dined with an Irishman named Macartney, a physician of the old
talked literature, and spoke a thousand follies against Voltaire,
favourite work of mine, which the cowled idiot refused to attribute
as well have said that a Capuchin created the heavens and the earth.
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