1640 Events January–June February 9 - Ibrahim I succeeds Murad IV as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire . March 8-13 - Siege of Galle: Dutch troops take the strategic fortress at Galle , Sri Lanka from the Portuguese. April 13 - The Short Parliament assembles, as King Charles I of England attempts to fund the second of the Bishops' Wars . May 5 - The Short Parliament is dissolved. May 22 - The Catalan Revolt breaks out in Catalonia .July–December July 9 - John Punch , a servant of Virginia planter Hugh Gwyn, is sentenced to a life of servitude after attempting to escape, making him the "first official slave in the English colonies" August 9 - Forty-one Spanish delegates to Japan at Nagasaki are beheaded. August 20 - Second Bishops' War: A Scottish Covenanter army invades Northumberland in England. August 28 - Second Bishops' War - Battle of Newburn: The Scottish Covenanter army led by Alexander Leslie defeats the English army near Newburn in England. September - Sebastien Manrique reaches Dhaka . October 26 - The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between the Scottish Covenanters and Charles I of England . November 3 - The English Long Parliament is summoned; it will not be dissolved for 20 years. December 1 * End of the Iberian Union: A revolution organized by the nobility and bourgeoisie causes John IV of Portugal to be 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. The Spanish Habsburgs do not recognize Portugal's new dynasty, the House of Braganza , until the end of the Portuguese Restoration War in 1668 . * Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg begins to rule.Date unknown The first university in Finland, the Academy of Åbo , is founded in Turku . The first book to be printed in North America is published. The first known European coffeehouse opens in Venice . In Media January–March January 5 - Paolo Lorenzani , Italian composer January 8 * Joaquín Canaves , Spanish Catholic bishop * Elisabeth Dorothea of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg , German princess January 10 - Élie Benoist , French Protestant minister January 11 - Sir Robert Burdett, 3rd Baronet , English politician January 17 - Jonathan Singletary Dunham , prominent early American settler of Woodbridge Township January 23 - Philipp von Hörnigk , German economist January 25 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire , English soldier and statesman January 31 - Samuel Willard , American theologian February 6 - William Campion , English politician February 13 - Richard Edgcumbe , English politician February 14 - Countess Palatine Anna Magdalena of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler , Countess of Hanau-Lichtenberg February 17 - Olivier Morel de La Durantaye , French military officer February 20 - Pierre II Mignard , French architect and painter February 24 * Charles-René d'Hozier , French historical commentator * Michiel ten Hove , interim Grand Pensionary of Holland February 29 * Elisabeth Charlotte, Countess of Holzappel * Benjamin Keach , English Particular Baptist preacher March 6 - Marcantonio Barbarigo , Italian Catholic cardinal March 7 - Maria Theresa van Thielen , Flemish Baroque painter March 9 - Jacques d'Agar , French painter March 18 - Philippe de La Hire , French mathematician and astronomerApril–June April 1 * Sigismund Casimir , Crown Prince of Poland * Georg Mohr , Danish mathematician April 4 - Gaspar Sanz , Spanish composer, musician, priest April 6 - Thomas Lloyd , Quaker preacher of provincial Pennsylvania April 7 - Ludmilla Elisabeth of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt , German Countess and hymn poet April 18 - Étienne Chauvin , French Protestant divine April 22 - Mariana Alcoforado , Portuguese nun April 23 - Wolfgang William Romer , Dutch military engineer April 26 - Frederick, Count of Nassau-Weilburg , ruling Count of Nassau-Weilburg April 30 - Nicolas Letourneux , French preacher, ascetical writer May 31 - Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki , King of Poland June 5 - Pu Songling , Qing Dynasty Chinese writer June 9 - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor June 15 - Bernard Lamy , French Oratorian mathematician and theologian June 16 - Jacques Ozanam , French mathematician June 19 - Thomas Widdrington , English politician June 21 - Abraham Mignon , Dutch golden age painter June 29 - Elizabeth Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield , second wife of Philip StanhopeJuly–September July 8 - Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester , son of Charles I July 20 - Johannes Bohn , German physician August 2 - Gérard Audran , French engraver August 8 - Amalia Catharina , German poet and musician September 7 - Johann Jacob Schütz , German lawyer September 8 - Jérôme de Gonnelieu , French Jesuit theologian September 21 - Philippe I, Duke of Orléans , younger son of Louis XIII of France and his wife September 23 - Date Tsunamune , Japanese daimyō of Sendai han September 29 - Antoine Coysevox , French sculptorOctober–December October 11 - Louis Henry, Count Palatine of Simmern-Kaiserslautern , German noble October 12 - Sir Roger Twisden, 2nd Baronet of England October 18 - William Stanley , English Member of Parliament October 20 * Gérard Edelinck , Flemish engraver * Pieter Cornelisz van Slingelandt , Dutch Golden Age painter October 23 - Elisabeth Pepys , English wife of Samuel Pepys October 25 - Johann Ludwig Hannemann , German chemist October 28 - Streynsham Master , English colonial administrator November 1 - Francisco de Benavides , Spanish viceroy November 4 - Carlo Mannelli , Italian violinist, castrato and composer November 5 - John Verney, 1st Viscount Fermanagh , British politician November 14 - Jonathan Corwin , American judge of the Salem witch trials November 15 - Nicolaus Adam Strungk , German composer and violinist November 18 - George Hooper , Bishop of St Asaph November 25 - Juan Domingo de Zuñiga y Fonseca , Spanish Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands November 27 - Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland December 1 - Ercole Antonio Mattioli , Italian politician December 6 - Claude Fleury , French ecclesiastical historian December 13 - Robert Plot , English naturalist December 14 - Aphra Behn , English author December 20 - Pierre Cureau de La Chambre , French churchman December 22 - Inaba Masamichi , Japanese daimyō December 25 - Julius Micrander , Swedish theologian December 29 - William Feilding, 3rd Earl of Denbigh Date unknown Marguerite de la Sablière , French salonist and polymath Catherine Monvoisin , French fortune teller and poisonerDeaths January 1 - Johann Wilhelm Baur , German artist January 14 - Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry , English lawyer and judge January 25 - Robert Burton , English scholar January 26 - Jindřich Matyáš Thurn , Swedish general February 2 - Jeanne de Lestonnac , French saint February 9 - Murad IV, Ottoman Sultan March 13 - Isaac Manasses de Pas, Marquis de Feuquieres , French soldier March 17 - Philip Massinger , English dramatist March 20 - Michael Reyniersz Pauw , Dutch businessman April - Uriel da Costa , Portuguese philosopher April 2 - Paul Fleming , German physician and poet April 5 - Petrus Kirstenius , German physician and orientalist April 7 - Wilhelm Kettler , Duke of Courland April 10 - Agostino Agazzari , Italian composer April 16 - Countess Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau May 29 - Elisabet Juliana Banér , Swedish noble May 30 - Peter Paul Rubens , Flemish painter May 31 - Zeynab Begum , Safavid princess June 3 - Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk , English politician July 13 - Henry Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz , Stadtholder of Groningen , Friesland and Drenthe July 25 - Fabio Colonna , Italian scientist August 30 - Thomas Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Haddington , Scottish noble September 10 - Anthony Abdy , English merchant September 25 - Philippe-Charles, 3rd Count of Arenberg September 30 * Charles, Duke of Guise * Jacopo da Empoli , Italian painter October 1 - Claudio Achillini , Italian philosopher, theologian, mathematician, poet, jurist October 6 * Wolrad IV, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg * Christian Ulrik Gyldenløve , Danish diplomat and military officer October 7 - Lord William Howard , English nobleman October 19 - Aubert Miraeus , Belgian historian October 20 - John Ball , English Puritan clergyman November 5 - Anne of England , daughter of King Charles I November 19 - Krzysztof Radziwiłł , Polish nobleman November 22 - Mario Minniti , Italian artist November 27 - Gabriel Gustafsson Oxenstierna , Swedish statesman December 1 * Pieter van den Broecke , Dutch merchant * George William, Elector of Brandenburg December 3 - Christopher Wandesford , English administrator and politician December 15 - Willem Baudartius , Dutch theologian December 22 - Claude de Bullion , French Minister of Finance December 30 - John Francis Regis , French saint December 31 - Ernest Christopher, Count of Rietberg date unknown * Bombogor , Evenk chief * Adriana Basile , Italian composer possible - John Ford , English dramatist
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