Today in History for Year 1642

Months in Year 1642: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 21 of 21

Jan 4th - King Charles I with 400 soldiers attacks the English parliament
Jan 10th - King Charles I & family flee London for Oxford
Mar 1st - Georgeana (York) Maine became the 1st incorporated American city
Mar 9th - English Queen Henriette Mary arrives in Hellevoetsluis Neth
Mar 12th - Abel Tasman is 1st European in New Zealand
Mar 27th - The sixth Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Joseph takes office.
May 6th - Ville Marie (Montreal) forms
May 18th - Montreal Canada founded
May 30th - From this date all honours granted by Charles I are retrospectively annulled by Parliament
Jun 14th - 1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts
Aug 13th - Christiaan Huygens discovers Martian south polar cap
Aug 14th - Able Tasmans ships Heemskerck/Zeehaen depart out of Batavia
Aug 22nd - Civil War in England began between Royalists & Parliament
Sep 19th - Perpignan surrenders to French troops
Sep 23rd - Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass, 1st commencement
Oct 23rd - Battle at Edgeville (Warwick): King Charles I vs English parliament
Nov 2nd - 2nd battle at Breitenfeld Saksen: Sweden beat Ferdinand III
Nov 13th - Battle at Turnham Green, London: King Charles I vs English parliament
Nov 24th - Abel Janzoon Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania)
King of England King Charles I Dec 13th - New Zealand discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman
Dec 22nd - Pope Urbanus VIII publishes degree In eminente

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 15 of 15

Jan 2nd - Mehmed IV, sultan (Turkey)
Feb 18th - Marie Champmeslé, French actress (d. 1698)
Mar 21st - Georg Schmezer, composer
Apr 8th - Gerard Callenbach, Dutch admiral
Jun 20th - George Hickes, English linguistic (Old German Philology)
Jul 22nd - Johann Quirsfeld, composer
Aug 1st - Ahmed II, 21st sultan of Turkey (1691-95) [or Feb 25, 1643]
Aug 14th - Cosimo III de' Medici, monarch of Florence (1670-1723)
Aug 21st - Johann Friedrich Treiber, composer
Sep 23rd - Giovanni Maria Bononcini, composer
Nov 16th - Cornelis Evertsen the Younger, Dutch buccaneer/lt admiral of Zeeland
Nov 24th - Anne Hilarion de Cotentin, earl of Tourville/knight/admiral/marshal
Dec 6th - Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (d. 1703)
Dec 25th - Isaac Newton, Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, England, physicist, mathematician; astronomer (Gravity, Laws of Motion), (d.1727)
Dec 30th - Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (d. 1707)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 14 of 14

Jan 8th - Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist/astronomer, dies at 77 in Italy
Feb 7th - William Bedell, English clergyman (b. 1571)
Feb 24th - Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer, dies at about 66
Apr 30th - Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (b. 1578)
May 6th - Frans Francken, the Younger, Flemish painter, dies on 61st birthday
Jul 3rd - Maria de' Medici, French queen-mother, dies at about 69
Jul 18th - Willem earl of Nassau-Siegen, gov of Ft Emmerik/Heusden, dies
Aug 18th - Guido Reni, Italian painter (b. 1575)
Sep 3rd - Elisabeth of Nassau, daughter of Willem I/Charlotte, dies at 65
Sep 12th - Cinq Mars, French plotter, executed
Sep 29th - René Goupil, French Catholic missionary, one of Canadian Martyrs (b. 1608)
Nov 1st - Jean Nicolet, French explorer (b. 1598)
Nov 7th - Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, English politician
Dec 4th - Armand-Jean Duplessis Richelieu, bishop of Lucon, dies at about 57