What happened in 1642?
60 recorded events in 1642, including 28 in wars & conflicts, 10 in people and 8 in architecture & engineering.
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Major Events 1
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English Civil War begins
King Charles I raises his standard, beginning a conflict between Royalists and Parliamentarians.
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Wars & Conflicts 28
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English Civil War
Series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists
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Battle of Edgehill
1642 battle during the English Civil War
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Battle of Breitenfeld
Battle of the Thirty Years' War in 1642
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Battle of Honnecourt
1642 battle of the Franco-Spanish War of 1635–1659
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Battle of Turnham Green
1642 battle of the First English Civil War
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Battle of Lleida
Battle fought on October 7, 1642
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Battle of Brentford
Battle of 1642
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Battle of Powick Bridge
1642 first major cavalry engagement of the English Civil War
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Battle of Kempen
1642 battle of the thirty years' war
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Battle of Liscarroll
1642 battle
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Battle of Montmeló
1642 battle
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Battle of Kilrush
1642 battle
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Final Battle of San Salvador
1642 military assault
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Siege of Hull
1642 first major action of the English Civil War
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Siege of Plymouth
1646 battle of the English Civil War
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Battle of Aylesbury
Battle in 1643 during the First English Civil War
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Siege of Limerick
1642 English Protestants surrendered to Confederate Catholics
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Siege of Portsmouth
1642 siege during the English Civil War
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Siege of Reading
Eleven-day blockade of Reading, Berkshire 1643
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Battle of Babylon Hill
1642 a skirmish of First English Civil War
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Battle of Kings Norton
1642 battle
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Siege of Chichester
1642 siege
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Battle of Tadcaster
1642 battle of the First English Civil War
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Battle of Piercebridge
1642 battle of the First English Civil War
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Siege of Exeter
1642 siege during the First English Civil War
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Battle of Marshall's Elm
1642 skirmish in Somerset prior to the English Civil War
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Sieges of Bradford
Civil War skirmishes in Bradford, England
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Dano-Mughal War
Danish colonial conflict against the Mughal Empire
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People 10
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Galileo Galilei died
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
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Jean Nicolet died
French explorer & independent fur-trader (Born: C.E.1598—Demised: C.E.1642)
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Martine Bertereau died
French scientist (c. 1590 - after 1642)
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António Fernandes died
Portuguese Jesuit missionary
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Johann Daniel Mylius died
Alchemist and composer
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Giovanni Battista Buonamente died
Italian composer (1595–1642)
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Shitao born
Born in Guilin. Chinese painter and poet (1642-1707).
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Ihara Saikaku born
Born in Nakatsu. Japanese writer.
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Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany born
Born in Florence. Grand Prince of Tuscany (1642-1723).
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Zheng Jing born
Born in Nan'an. Son of Koxinga (1642-1681).
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Science & Technology 1
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Bicêtre Hospital
Hospital in Paris, France
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Religion & Belief Systems 5
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Synod of Jassy
Synod (25 Sept.–27 Oct. 1642) convened in Iași by Patriarch Parthenius I of Constantinople to counter the Protestant Reformation; condemned teachings ascribed to Cyril Lucaris; ratified Peter Mogila's Expositio fidei
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Slonim Synagogue
Building in Slonim, Belarus
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Tykocin Synagogue
Former synagogue in Tykocin, Poland
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Mariä Namen
Church building in Weiterskirchen, Germany
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Heilig Kreuz
Filial church in Gronsdorf, Haar (bei München), Germany
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Economy & Trade 1
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Barker's Farm
American farm and orchard in North Andover, Massachusetts
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Architecture & Engineering 8
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Krupa monastery
Serbian Orthodox monastery in Croatia
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Brühl Palace, Warsaw
Building
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Wooden church of Hirișeni
Wooden church relocated to Chișinău from Hirișeni
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Chapelle Sainte-Ursule de la Sorbonne
Chapel located in Paris, in France
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Church of Our Lady of Loreto
Church building in Warsaw, Poland
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church of Saint Andrew, Madrid
Church and cultural property in Madrid, Spain
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Troitsky Markov Monastery
Men's Orthodox monastery in Vitebsk
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Santa Teresa, Turin
Church in Italy
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Empires & Countries 6
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Kingdom of Sikkim founded
Kingdom of Sikkim was founded.
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Confederate Ireland founded
Confederate Ireland was founded, with its capital at Kilkenny.
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Kazikumukh Khanate founded
Kazikumukh Khanate was founded, with its capital at Kumukh.
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Kazikumukh Shamkhalate dissolved
Kazikumukh Shamkhalate ceased to exist, having been centered at Kumukh.
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Principality of Sedan dissolved
Principality of Sedan ceased to exist, having been centered at Sedan.
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Jath State founded
Jath State was founded.
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