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Year 1641 ( MDCXLI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1641
January - June
July - December
August 10 - Charles I of England flees London for the north.
November 4 - A Dutch fleet, with Michiel de Ruyter as third in command, beat back a Spanish-Dunkirker fleet in an action at Cape St Vincent.
Undated
The Long Parliament passes a series of legislation designed to contain Charles I's absolutist tendencies.
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.
René Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy was originally published.
The Norwegian city of Kristiansand was founded by King Christian IV.
The Swedish town of Falun was given city rights by Queen Kristina.
The Japanese policy of Sakoku was first implemented.
English law makes witchcraft a capital crime.
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)
September - Nehemiah Grew, biologist (d. 1712)
October 5 - Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, mistress of Louis XIV of France (d. 1707)
November 23 - Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (d. 1720)
date unknown - Pierre Allix, French Protestant clergyman (d. 1717)
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Deaths
January 3 - Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomer (born c. 1618)
January 11 - Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (born 1583)
March 8 - Xu Xiake, Chinese adventurer and geographer (born 1587)
April 13 - Richard Montagu, English clergyman (born 1577)
April 15 - Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (born 1581)
May 10 - Johan Banér, Swedish soldier (born 1596)
May 12 - Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, English statesman (born 1593)
October 31 - Cornelis Jol, Dutch naval commander and privateer (born 1597)
November 9 - Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, Governor of the Netherlands and Bishop of Toledo (born c.1609)
December 9 - Sir Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (born 1599)
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