Events

• January 4 - Charles I attempts to arrest five leading members of the Long Parliament, but they escape. A precursor to English Civil War.
• March 1 - Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine) becomes the first incorporated city in America
• March 19 - the citizens of Galway seize an English naval ship, close the town gates and declare support for Confederate Ireland.
• May 17 - Sieur de Maisonneuve founds the Ville Marie de Montréal.
• July - Charles I besieges Hull in an attempt to gain control of its arsenal.
• August 4 - Lord Forbes relieves Forthill and besieges Galway.
• August 22 - King Charles I raised the royal battle standard over Nottingham Castle, so declaring war on his own Parliament.
• September 7 - Lord Forbes raises his unsuccessful siege of Galway.
• September 8 - Thomas Granger executed by hanging at Plymouth, Massachusetts for confessing to numerous acts of bestiality.
• October 23 - Battle of Edgehill the first pitched battle of the First English Civil War.
• November 24 - Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).
• The Dutch drive Spain from Taiwan.
• Abel Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.
• Blaise Pascal produces a mechanical adding machine (the "Pascaline").
• First Battle of Lostwithiel
• Jean-Baptiste Tavernier brings Hope diamond to Europe
• Puritans close all theaters in England
• Peter Stuyvesant becomes the governor of Curaçao
• Bro/broo in Sweden is granted the city rights for the second time and takes the name Kristinehamn
• Rembrandt Harmenzoon van Rijn finishes his painting "The Night Watch".

Births

• January 2 - Mehmed IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1693)
• February 18 - Marie Champmeslé, French actress (d. 1698)
• April 15 - Suleiman II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1691)
• June 20 - George Hickes, English minister and scholar (d. 1715)
• August 14 - Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1723)
• December 6 - Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (d. 1703)
• December 25 (O.S.) - Isaac Newton, English mathematician and physicist (d. 1727)
• December 30 - Vicenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (d. 1707)

See also Category:1642 births.

Deaths

• January 8 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist (b. 1564)
• February 7 - William Bedell, English clergyman (b. 1571)
• April 30 - Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (b. 1578)
• July 3 - Marie de' Medici, queen of Henry IV of France (b. 1573)
• August 18 - Guido Reni, Italian painter (b. 1575)
• September 12 - Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, French conspirator (b. 1620)
• October 24 - Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey Fen drainage adventurer and soldier (b. 1583)
• November 1 - Jean Nicolet, French explorer (b. 1598)
• November 7 - Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, English politician
• December 4 - Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (b. 1585)

See also Category:1642 deaths.

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