1641

Calendar year
Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
  • 16th century
  • 17th century
  • 18th century
Decades:
  • 1620s
  • 1630s
  • 1640s
  • 1650s
  • 1660s
Years:
  • 1638
  • 1639
  • 1640
  • 1641
  • 1642
  • 1643
  • 1644
May 12: The Earl of Strafford is executed in London.
1641 by topic
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1641 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1641
MDCXLI
Ab urbe condita2394
Armenian calendar1090
ԹՎ ՌՂ
Assyrian calendar6391
Balinese saka calendar1562–1563
Bengali calendar1048
Berber calendar2591
English Regnal year16 Cha. 1 – 17 Cha. 1
Buddhist calendar2185
Burmese calendar1003
Byzantine calendar7149–7150
Chinese calendar庚辰年 (Metal Dragon)
4338 or 4131
    — to —
辛巳年 (Metal Snake)
4339 or 4132
Coptic calendar1357–1358
Discordian calendar2807
Ethiopian calendar1633–1634
Hebrew calendar5401–5402
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1697–1698
 - Shaka Samvat1562–1563
 - Kali Yuga4741–4742
Holocene calendar11641
Igbo calendar641–642
Iranian calendar1019–1020
Islamic calendar1050–1051
Japanese calendarKan'ei 18
(寛永18年)
Javanese calendar1562–1563
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3974
Minguo calendar271 before ROC
民前271年
Nanakshahi calendar173
Thai solar calendar2183–2184
Tibetan calendar阳金龙年
(male Iron-Dragon)
1767 or 1386 or 614
    — to —
阴金蛇年
(female Iron-Snake)
1768 or 1387 or 615
November 4: Battle of Cape St. Vincent

1641 (MDCXLI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday 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. As of the start of 1641, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Calendar year

Events

January–March

April–June

  • April 7 – The deadline for Catholic priests to leave England expires. Among those who refuse to leave, Ambrose Barlow and William Ward become martyrs. Barlow surrenders on Easter Sunday, April 25, and is hanged on September 10; he will be canonized as a saint in 1970. Ward is caught on July 15 and executed on July 26.
  • April 15Aegidius Ursinus de Vivere is appointed by Pope Urban VIII to be the Roman Catholic Church's Patriarch of Jerusalem.
  • April 21 – England's House of Commons votes 204 to 59 in favor of the conviction for treason and the execution of the Earl of Strafford, and the House of Lords acquiesces.[2] King Charles refuses to give the necessary royal assent.
  • April 25 – The Battle of Songjin begins in the modern-day North Korean city of Kimch'aek, at the time part of the Chinese Empire controlled by the Ming dynasty. The Ming, led by General Wu Sangui, defeat the Qing rebels.
  • April 30 – In Morocco, rebel leader and secessionist Sidi al-Ayachi is assassinated.[3]
  • May 3 – The Protestation of 1641 is passed by England's Parliament, requiring all officeholders to swear an oath of allegiance to King Charles I and to the Church of England.
  • May 7 – England's House of Lords votes, 51 to 9, in favor of the execution of the Earl of Strafford for treason. In fear for his own safety, King Charles I signs Strafford's death warrant on May 10.
  • May 11 – The Long Parliament in England passes the "Act against Dissolving Parliament without its own Consent".
  • May 12Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, former director of England's Council of the North, is publicly beheaded in London in front of a crowd of thousands of people.
  • May 24Providence Island in the Caribbean, settled by English Puritans and a haven for English pirates off the coast of modern-day Colombia, is captured in a joint operation of the Spanish Navy in an attack led by Don Francisco Díaz Pimienta, and the Portuguese Navy lead by the Count of Castel-Melhor Sousa. The expedition takes 770 prisoners, 380 slaves and a fortune in plundered gold and silver.[4]
  • June 1 – In Paris, representatives of Portugal and France sign a treaty of alliance.
  • June 2 – Bavarian and Spanish troops capture the town of Bad Kreuznach during the Thirty Years' War, 17 months after it had been taken in a French and Saxon attack.
  • June 12
  • June 29 – The Battle of Wolfenbüttel takes place between a combined Swedish and French force against the Holy Roman Empire, with the Swedish-French Army driving back an Imperial assault.

July–September

October–December

  • October 2 – Scottish politician John Campbell takes office as Lord Chancellor of Scotland and is given the title of the Earl of Loudoun by Charles I in his capacity as King of Scotland.
  • October 23Irish 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 – By a vote of 159 to 148, the Long Parliament of England passes the Grand Remonstrance, with 204 specific objections to King Charles I's absolutist tendencies, and calling for the King to expel all Anglican bishops from the House of Lords.
  • December 1 – The English Parliament presents the Grand Remonstrance to King Charles, who makes no response to it until Parliament has the document published and released to the general public.
  • December 7 – The bill for the Militia Ordinance is introduced by Arthur Haselrig, an anti-monarchist member of the House of Commons, proposing for the first time to allow Parliament to appoint its own military commanders without royal approval. King Charles, concerned that the legislation would allow parliament to create its own army, orders Haselrig arrested for treason. Parliament passes the Militia Ordinance on March 15.
  • December 16Pope Urban VIII announces the creation of 12 new cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • December 23 – King Charles replies to the Grand Remonstrance and refuses the demand for the removal of bishops from the House of Lords. Rioting breaks out in Westminster after the King's refusal is announced, and the 12 Anglican bishops stop attending meetings of the Lords.
  • December 27 – According to a journalist who witnesses the events, John Rushworth, the term "roundhead" is first used to describe supporters of the English Parliament who have challenged the authority of the monarchy. Rushworth writes later that during a riot on the 27th, one of the rioters, David Hide, draws his sword and, describing the short haircuts of the anti-monarchists, says that he would "cut the throat of those round-headed dogs that bawled against bishops."
  • December 30 – At the request of King Charles, John Williams, the Anglican Archbishop of York joins with 11 other bishops in disputing the legality of any legislation passed by the House of Lords during the time that the bishops were excluded. The House of Commons passes a resolution to have the 12 bishops arrested. King Charles, in turn, issues an order on January 3 to have five members of the House of Commons arrested for treason.

Date unknown

Births

Robert Sibbald
Regnier de Graaf
Henri Arnaud
Empress Xiaohuizhang

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Deaths

Anthony van Dyck
Francis van Aarssens

Date unknown

References

  1. ^ Fritze, Ronald (1996). Historical dictionary of Stuart England, 1603-1689. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 311. ISBN 9780313283918.
  2. ^ David L. Smith, The Stuart Parliaments 1603–1689 (Arnold Press, 1999) p. 123
  3. ^ Roger Coindreau, Les corsaires de Salé (Eddif, 2006) p. 52
  4. ^ Jon Latimer, Buccaneers of the Caribbean: How Piracy Forged an Empire (Harvard University Press, 2009) p.84.
  5. ^ BBC History, July 2011, p. 12.
  6. ^ "The Ship of Gold: The '£1 Billion' Lost Treasure of the Merchant Royal", Sky Network/History Channel.
  7. ^ "The Salem Witch Trials: Legal Resources". University of Chicago Library. Retrieved December 23, 2022.
  8. ^ Eduardo, Leigh (2005). Mistresses : true stories of seduction, power and ambition. London: Michael O'Mara. p. 46. ISBN 9781843171416.
  9. ^ Sarra Copia Sulam (November 15, 2009). Jewish Poet and Intellectual in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Works of Sarra Copia Sulam in Verse and Prose. University of Chicago Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-226-77987-4.
  10. ^ "Anthony van Dyck". Netherlands Institute of Art. Retrieved March 20, 2021.