This article is about the year 1640.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 16th century – 17th century – 18th century |
Decades: | 1610s 1620s 1630s – 1640s – 1650s 1660s 1670s |
Years: | 1637 1638 1639 – 1640 – 1641 1642 1643 |
1640 by topic: | |
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Gregorian calendar | 1640 MDCXL |
Ab urbe condita | 2393 |
Armenian calendar | 1089 ԹՎ ՌՁԹ |
Assyrian calendar | 6390 |
Bahá'í calendar | -204–-203 |
Bengali calendar | 1047 |
Berber calendar | 2590 |
English Regnal year | 15 Cha. 1 – 16 Cha. 1 |
Buddhist calendar | 2184 |
Burmese calendar | 1002 |
Byzantine calendar | 7148–7149 |
Chinese calendar | 己卯年十二月初九日 (4276/4336-12-9) — to —
庚辰年十一月十九日(4277/4337-11-19) |
Coptic calendar | 1356–1357 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1632–1633 |
Hebrew calendar | 5400–5401 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1696–1697 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1562–1563 |
- Kali Yuga | 4741–4742 |
Holocene calendar | 11640 |
Iranian calendar | 1018–1019 |
Islamic calendar | 1049–1050 |
Japanese calendar | Kan'ei 17 (寛永17年) |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
Korean calendar | 3973 |
Minguo calendar | 272 before ROC 民前272年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2183 |
Year 1640 (MDCXL) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- February 9 – Ibrahim I (1640–1648) succeeds Murat IV (1623–1640) as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
- April 13 – King Charles I of England summons the Short Parliament in an attempt to fund the second of the Bishops' Wars.
- May 5 – The Short Parliament is dispersed.
- May 22 – The Guerra dels Segadors breaks out in Catalonia.
July–December
- August 9 – Forty-one Spanish delegates to Japan at Nagasaki are beheaded.
- October 26 – The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Scotland and Charles I of Scotland, England and Ireland.
- November 3 – The English Long Parliament is summoned.
- December 1
- End of the Iberian Union: João IV of Portugal is acclaimed as king, thus ending 60 years of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain, and the rule of the House of Habsburg (also called the Philippine Dynasty). The Spanish Habsburgs do not recognize Portugal's new dynasty, the House of Braganza, until 1668.
- Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg starts to rule.
Date unknown
- The first university in Finland, the Academy of Åbo, is founded in Turku.
- The first book (the Bay Psalm Book) to be printed in North America is published.
- The first known European coffee house opens in Venice.
Births
- January 25 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman (d. 1707)
- March 18 – Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1719)
- March 30 – John Trenchard, English statesman (d. 1695)
- April 1 – Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (d. 1697)
- May 31 – Michael of Poland (d. 1673)
- June 9 – Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1705)
- July 10 – Aphra Behn, English author (d. 1689)
- September 29 – Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (d. 1720)
- November 28 – Willem de Vlamingh, Flemish sea captain
- December 6 – Claude Fleury, French historian (d. 1723)
- December 13 – Robert Plot, British naturalist (d. 1696)
Deaths
- January 14 – Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, English lawyer and judge (b. 1578)
- January 25 – Robert Burton, English scholar (b. 1577)
- February 9 – Murad IV, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1612)
- March 17 – Philip Massinger, English dramatist (b. 1583)
- April – Uriel da Costa, Portuguese philosopher (suicide) (b. 1585)
- April 10 – Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer (b. 1578)
- May 30 – Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (b. 1577)
- June 3
- John Aylmer, English political theorist (b. 1521)
- Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (b. 1584)
- September 30 – Charles, Duke of Guise (b. 1571)
- October 20 – John Ball, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1585)
- December 30 – John Francis Regis, French saint (b. 1597)
- date unknown – Pedro Teixeira, Portuguese explorer
- date unknown – Bombogor, Evenk Chief
- probable – John Ford, dramatist (b. 1586)
In fiction
- The play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand takes place in this year.