Today in History for Year 1640

Months in Year 1640: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 15 of 15

Mar 9th - Pierre Corneilles "Horace," premieres in Paris
Apr 13th - English Short Parliament forms (- May 5)
May 3rd - English Upper house accept Act of Attainder
May 5th - English Short Parliament unites
May 12th - Uprising against Spanish king Philip IV
Aug 3rd - 2,000 men VOC-army surrounds the city of Malakka
Aug 3rd - Zorilla's "Bire el Ojo," premieres in Toledo
Aug 28th - Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn
Aug 29th - English King Charles I signed a peace treaty with Scotland
Nov 3rd - English Long Parliament forms
Nov 11th - John Pym, earl of Strafford locked in Tower of London
Dec 1st - Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule
Dec 9th - Settler Hugh Bewitt banished from Mass colony when he declares himself to be free of original sin
Dec 15th - Duke of Braganca crowned King Johan IV of Portugal
Dec 25th - Pierre de Fermat writes to Marin Mersenne about Fermat's church thesis

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 18 of 18

Jan 25th - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman (d. 1707)
Mar 18th - Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1719)
Mar 30th - John Trenchard, English politician (d. 1695)
Apr 1st - Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (d. 1697)
Apr 22nd - Mariana Alcoforado, Portugal, nun
May 31st - Michał Wiśniowiecki, King of Poland (d. 1673)
Jun 5th - Pu Songling, Chinese writer (d. 1715)
Jun 9th - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (1658-1705)
Jun 15th - Bernard Lamy, French mathematician (d. 1715)
Jun 21st - Abraham Mignon, still life painter
Sep 29th - Antoine Coyzevox, French sculptor, baptized
Nov 4th - Carlo Mannelli, composer
Nov 15th - Nicolaus Adam Strungk, composer
Nov 26th - Carl Rosier, composer
Nov 28th - Willem de Vlamingh, Flemish sea captain (c. 1648)
Dec 6th - Claude Fleury, French historian (d. 1723)
Dec 13th - Robert Plot, English naturalist (d. 1696)
Dec 14th - (baptism date) - Aphra Behn, English playwright and novelist (d. 1689)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 20 of 20

Jan 14th - Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, English lawyer and judge (b. 1578)
Jan 22nd - Erasmus Quellinus I, Flemish wood carver, dies at about 55
Jan 25th - Robert Burton, author (Anatomy of Melancholy), dies
Feb 4th - Hendrick C Vroom, Dutch seascape painter, dies
Feb 9th - Murad IV, sultan of Turkey (1623-40), dies in Baghdad at 27
Mar 8th - Guillaume van Messaus, composer, dies at 50
Mar 17th - Philip Massinger, dramatist, dies
Apr 2nd - Matthias C Sarbiewski, [Sarbievius], Polish jesuit/poet, dies at 45
Apr 10th - Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer, dies at 61
Apr 10th - Charlotte Flandrina van Nassau, daughter of Willem I, dies at 60
May 30th - Andre Duchesne, French historian/genealogy, dies
May 30th - Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter, dies at 62
Jun 3rd - Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (b. 1584)
Jul 12th - Henry Casimir I, count of Nassau-Dietz, dies
Oct 20th - John Ball, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1585)
Oct 26th - Pietro Tacca, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 63
Nov 25th - Giles Farnaby, composer, dies
Dec 6th - Matthijs Elsevier, Flemish/Dutch book publisher/merchant, dies at 75
Dec 9th - Pierre Fourier, Roman Catholic saint and French priest (b.1565)
Dec 30th - John Francis Regis, French saint (b. 1597)