Events

• The Long Parliament passes a series of legislation designed to contain Charles I's absolutist tendencies.
• January 17 – Pau Claris proclaims the Catalan Republic.
• August 10 – Charles I of England flees London for the north
• Irish Rebellion of 1641 – revolt of the Gaelic Irish in Ulster against the English settlers
• The Dutch found a trading colony on Dejima, near Nagasaki, Japan.
• Portugal is ousted from Malacca by the Dutch.
• Claudio Monteverdi's opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria is first performed.
• 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.
• The Norwegian city of Kristiansand was founded by King Christian IV
• The Swedish city of Falun was founded by Queen Kristina

Births

• January 18 - François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (d. 1691)
• March - Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester (d. 1711)
• April 8 - Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English statesman (d. 1704)
• April 15 - Robert Sibbald, Scottish physician and antiquarian (d. 1722)
• May 10 - Dudley North, English economist (d. 1691)
• May 28 - Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian polymath (d. 1693)
• June 30 - Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Irish general (d. 1719)
• July 30 - Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1673)
• August 5 - John Hathorne, American magistrate (d. 1717)
• October 5 - Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, mistress of Louis XIV of France (d. 1707)
• November 23 - Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (d. 1720)
• Pierre Allix, French protestant clergyman (d. 1717)

See also Category:1641 births.

Deaths

• January 3 - Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomer
• January 11 - Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (b. 1583)
• March 8 - Xu Xiake, Chinese adventurer (b. 1587)
• April 13 - Richard Montagu, English clergyman (b. 1577)
• April 15 - Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (b. 1581)
• May 10 - Johan Banér, Swedish soldier (b. 1596)
• May 12 - Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, English statesman (b. 1593)
• November 9 - Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, Governor of the Netherlands and Bishop of Toledo
• December 9 - Sir Anthony van Dyck, Dutch painter (b. 1599)

See also Category:1641 deaths.

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