1641

This article is about the year 1641.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1610s  1620s  1630s  – 1640s –  1650s  1660s  1670s
Years:	1638 1639 1640 – 1641 – 1642 1643 1644

1641 by topic:

Arts and Science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1641 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1641 MDCXLI
Ab urbe condita	2394
Armenian calendar	1090 ԹՎ ՌՂ
Assyrian calendar	6391
Bengali calendar	1048
Berber calendar	2591
English Regnal year	16 Cha. 1 – 17 Cha. 1
Buddhist calendar	2185
Burmese calendar	1003
Byzantine calendar	7149–7150
Chinese calendar	庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 4337 or 4277     — to — 辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 4338 or 4278
Coptic calendar	1357–1358
Discordian calendar	2807
Ethiopian calendar	1633–1634
Hebrew calendar	5401–5402
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1697–1698
- Shaka Samvat	1563–1564
- Kali Yuga	4742–4743
Holocene calendar	11641
Igbo calendar	641–642
Iranian calendar	1019–1020
Islamic calendar	1050–1051
Japanese calendar	Kan'ei 18 (寛永１８年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3974
Minguo calendar	271 before ROC 民前271年
Thai solar calendar	2183–2184

1641 (MDCXLI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter F) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday (dominical letter C) of the Julian calendar, the 1641st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 641st year of the 2nd millennium, the 41st year of the 17th century, and the 2nd year of the 1640s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1641 is 10 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

Events

January–June

• January 4 – Major eruption of the stratovolcano Mount Parker (Philippines).
• January 18 – Pau Claris proclaims the Catalan Republic.
• February 16 – King Charles I of England gives his assent to the Triennial Act, reluctantly committing himself to parliamentary sessions of at least fifty days every three years.

July–December

• July 5
  • The Norwegian city of Kristiansand is founded by King Christian IV of Denmark.
  • In England, the Long Parliament abolishes the Court of Star Chamber.
• July 12 – Portugal and the Dutch Republic sign a Treaty of Offensive and Defensive Alliance at The Hague. The treaty is not respected by both parties and as a consequence has no effect in the Portuguese colonies (Brazil and Angola) that are under Dutch rule.
• August 10 – Charles I of England flees London for the north.
• October 23 – Irish Rebellion of 1641 breaks out: Irish Catholic gentry, chiefly in Ulster, revolt against the English administration and Scottish settlers in Ireland.
• October 24 – The Irish rebel Sir Felim O'Neill of Kinard issues the Proclamation of Dungannon.
• November 4 – Battle of Cape St Vincent: A Dutch fleet, with Michiel de Ruyter as third in command, beats back a Spanish-Dunkirker fleet off the coast of Portugal.
• November 22 – The Long Parliament of England passes the Grand Remonstrance, part of a series of legislation designed to contain Charles I's absolutist tendencies.

Date unknown

• The Dutch found a trading colony on Dejima, near Nagasaki, Japan.
• Portugal is ousted from Malacca by the Dutch.
• Moses Amyraut's De l'elevation de la foy et de l'abaissement de la raison en la creance des mysteres de la religion is published.
• René Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy is originally published.
• The Swedish town of Falun is given city rights by Queen Kristina.
• English law makes witchcraft a capital crime.
• A massive epidemic breaks out in northern and central China, just 3 years before the fall of the Ming dynasty. It races south down along the Grand Canal of China and the densely populated settlements there, from the northern terminus at Beijing, to the fertile Jiangnan region. In some local areas and towns it wipes out 90% of the local populace.

Births

• January 13 – Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of Marchmont, Scottish statesman (d. 1724)
• January 18 – François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (d. 1691)
• February 2 – Claude de la Colombière, French Jesuit priest and saint (d. 1682)
• February 3 – Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1695)
• February 4 – Jerolim Kavanjin, Croatian poet (d. 1714)
• February 8 – Richard Jones, 1st Earl of Ranelagh, Irish politician (d. 1712)
• February 8 – Robert Knox, English sea captain in the British East India Company (d. 1720)
• February 24 – Gabriel Tammelin, Lutheran clergyman (d. 1695)
• March 15 – Hyeonjong of Joseon, 18th monarch of the Korean Joseon Dynasty (d. 1675)
• March 19 – Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Muslim scholar (d. 1731)
• April 4 – Sir James Oxenden, 2nd Baronet, politician (d. 1708)
• April 8
  • Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English statesman (d. 1704)
  • (bapt.) – William Wycherley, English playwright (d. 1716)
• April 15 – Robert Sibbald, Scottish physician and antiquarian (d. 1722)
• May – Juan Núñez de la Peña, Spanish historian (d. 1721)
• May 8 – Nicolaes Witsen, Mayor of Amsterdam (d. 1717)
• May 16 – Dudley North, English economist, merchant and politician (d. 1691)
• May 18 – Olimpia Giustiniani, Italian noblewoman (d. 1729)
• May 28 – Johann Weikhard von Valvasor, Slovenian polymath (d. 1693)
• May 31 – Patriarch Dositheos II of Jerusalem, Greek Orthodox Patriarch (d. 1707)
• June 15 – Bernard de la Monnoye, French lawyer (d. 1728)
• June 19 – Jan Claus, leading Quaker in Amsterdam (d. 1729)
• June 28 – Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien (d. 1716)
• June 29 – Pierre Cholonec, French Jesuit missionary and biographer in New France (d. 1723)
• June 30 – Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, English general (d. 1719)
• July 9 – Jan Jansen Bleecker, Mayor of Albany, New York (d. 1732)
• July 14 – William Boynton, English politician (d. 1689)
• July 29 – Sir William Thomas, 1st Baronet, Member of the English Parliament (d. 1706)
• July 30 – Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1673)
• August 2 – Jacob Bobart the Younger, English Botanist (d. 1719)
• August 3 – Hildebrand Alington, 5th Baron Alington, Irish peer (d. 1723)
• August 5 – John Hathorne, American magistrate (d. 1717)
• August 28 – Henry, Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg (d. 1701)
• September – Nehemiah Grew, biologist (d. 1712)
• September 1 – Jean Barbier d'Aucour, French lawyer and satirist (d. 1694)
• September 5 – Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, English diplomat (d. 1702)
• September 7 – Tokugawa Ietsuna, Tokugawa shogun (d. 1680)
• September 16 – Julius Francis, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1689)
• September 20 – Henri Arnaud, pastor of the Waldensians in Piedmont (d. 1721)
• September 22 – Titus van Rijn, Dutch art dealer (d. 1668)
• September 26 – Nehemiah Grew, English plant anatomist and physiologist (d. 1712)
• October 1 – Hans Adam von Schöning, German general (d. 1696)
• October 5 – Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, mistress of Louis XIV of France (d. 1707)
• October 6 – Sir William Maynard, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1685)
• October 10 – Wolfgang Printz, German composer (d. 1717)
• October 14 – Joachim Tielke, German musical instrument maker (d. 1719)
• October 14 – Dorothea Maria of Saxe-Weimar, Duchess of Saxe-Zeitz (d. 1675)
• November 5 – Empress Xiaohuizhang, Qing Dynasty empress and consort of the Shunzhi Emperor of China (d. 1717)
• November 10 – Edward Lake, English churchman (d. 1704)
• November 14 – Albert Anton, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (d. 1710)
• November 17 – André, marquis de Nesmond, French naval commander (d. 1702)
• November 23 – Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (d. 1720)
• December 7 – Louis, Count of Armagnac, French noble (d. 1718)
• December 11 – Jean-Louis Bergeret, holder of the 8th seat of the Académie française (d. 1694)
• December 20 – Urban Hjärne, Scholar (d. 1724)
• date unknown
  • Pierre Allix, French Protestant clergyman (d. 1717)
  • Diego Ladrón de Guevara, viceroy of Peru (d. 1718)
  • Dodo von Knyphausen, German nobleman (d. 1698)

Deaths

• January 3 – Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomer (b. c. 1618)
• January 11 – Juan de Jáuregui, Spanish poet and painter (b. 1583)
• March 8 – Xu Xiake, Chinese adventurer and geographer (b. 1587)
• April 13 – Richard Montagu, English clergyman (b. 1577)
• April 15 – Domenico Zampieri (Domenichino), Italian painter (b. 1581)
• April 27 – Wilhelm von Rath, German soldier and scholar (b. 1585)
• May 10 – Johan Banér, Swedish soldier (b. 1596)
• May 12 – Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, English statesman (b. 1593)
• July 4 – Pedro Teixeira, Portuguese explorer
• August 9 – Augustine Baker, Welsh Benedictine mystic (b. 1575)
• August 16 – Thomas Heywood, English playwright (b. c. 1573)
• September 10 – Ambrose Barlow, English Catholic martyr (b. 1585) (executed)
• October 31 – Cornelis Jol, Dutch naval commander and privateer (b. 1597)
• November 9
  • Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria, Governor of the Netherlands and Bishop of Toledo (b. c. 1609)
  • Maren Spliid, Danish alleged witch (b. c. 1600) (executed)
• December 9 – Sir Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (b. 1599)
• date unknown
  • Estêvão de Brito, Portuguese composer (b. c. 1570)
  • Arthur Johnston, Scottish physician and poet (b. c. 1579)
  • Mukai Shogen Tadakatsu, Japanese admiral (b. 1582)
  • Harjol, concubine of Hong Taiji (b. 1609)