1640

This page relates to the year 1640 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

America

  • January 9th: naval Action of Gurupá in the state of the Pará, with the Brazil,
  • August 31st: The French François Vasseur, sent by Poincy, removes the island of the Tortoise to the English of the company of Providence.

  • First employers' Strike of the American history to the shipyards of Gloucester (Virginia).

Africa

  • the bey Murad, Minister for Finance, seizes the power in Tunisia and founds the Dynastie muradite (fine in 1704).

Asia

  • Epidemics in China.
  • the Russians reach the Amour (river) and the Kolyma.

Central Asia

  • the Mongolian Emperor Güshi Khan of the tribe of Qoshot (Khoshuud or Kalmouks) invades the Tibet and overcomes King de Tsang.
  • the emperor of Dzoungarie, Erdeni-Baatour-kongtaïdji, convenes the Mongolian representatives of the 44 khanats to the Tarbagataï in order to fight against the expansion Mandchou E. The decisions of the meeting of Dzoungarie are recorded in a code, the Tsadjin bitchigh , which regulates the relations of the Mongolian khanats and the feudal fields. This code threatens of a heavy sorrow the field which does not go to the help of another threatened field. It reinforces the capacity of the leading class on the arates (sorrows incurred for nonthe restitution of fugitive), regulates the organization and the recruitment of the army and confirms the hegemony and the privileges of the lamaïque Church.
  • the diplomacy Mandchou E endeavors to cancel the decisions of the meeting of Dzoungarie. The Manchu emperor obliges the Khalkha to divide their country into two parts, the khanat touchetou and the khanat dzasaktou , of the name of the rival dignitaries who direct them.
  • Arrived of the first Russian colonists at the east of the Lake Baïkal. The Mongols sell horses, camels and sheep to buy corn and articles manufactured with the Russian tradesmen.

The Middle East

Europe

  • March 26th: Foundation of the royal Academy of Åbo by Swedish Per Brahe the young person.
  • September 23rd: Opening of the diet of Ratisbon. Its deliberations will last ten months.
  • February 1st: Frederic Guillaume Ier de Brandebourg becomes duke of Prussia (fine in 1688)
  • Réaction of the General states of the United Provinces against the tendencies monarchical of the stadhouder Frederic-Henri of Orange-Nassau. They take again in hand the foreign politics and prevent the stadhoudérat Frise from falling to him.

British Isles

  • Plague with London. 30  000 victims.

  • January 12th: Thomas Wentworth becomes count of Strafford. It creates a standing army, recruited mainly in Ireland.
  • April 13rd: Opening of the Parliament, which opposes the policy of the king, who dissolves it the May 5th (“Short Parliament”).
  • August: Second “War of the bishops” in Scotland. The English are beaten with Newburn the August 28th. The covenantaires Scottish invade the England. With Newcastle, Charles Ier of England must repurchase their withdrawal.
  • September 15th: The castle of Edinburgh capitulates to the covenantaires.
  • October 26th: By the treated of Ripon, Charles commits itself joining together a new Parliament.
  • December 2nd: After the rout in Scotland, with London the “Long Parliament opens”, dominated by the personality of John Pym, which succeeds in translating Strafford into charge in front of the Lords. A majority of members of Parliament wishes to limit the political rights of the king, in particular the right to name and revoke the ministers and that to control the Private Council Decisions.
  • December: The petition “of the Root and the Branch” ( Roots and Branch Petition ), which claims the removal of the episcopate, collects 15  000 signatures.

Iberian peninsula

  • interior Revolts due to the policy of centralization of Olivares and to the lifting of troops: Insurrection of the Biscay, the Catalonia (May) and of the Portugal ( December).

  • January 7th: Salses is taken again with French.
  • May: Beginning of the Rising of Catalonia: Guerra dels Segadors . With Barcelona, the army of the segadores (harvesters), risen against the military requisitions, breaks on the city.
  • June 7th: The count of Santa-Colonna, viceroy of Catalogne is killed.
  • 22 - July 23rd: French naval Victoire on Spain with the Battle of Cadiz.
  • December 16th: Alliance of the Catalan insurrectionists with the France.
  • February 1st: the Portugal is raised and separated from the Spain thanks to the assistance of Richelieu. A handle of entreated seizes the governmental palate, oblige the Spanish viceroy, Marguerite de Mantoue and advisers to withdraw itself.
  • December 15th: Jean de Bragance becomes king de Portugal under the name of Jean IV ( João IV , end of reign in 1656).
  • December 24th: New riots with Barcelona.

France

  • Series of cold and wet summers (1639 - 1643, 1646 - 1650). Late grape harvest.

  • the Netherlands renew their alliance with the France with the beginning of the year.

  • Court of Gaston of Orleans.
  • Investigation into the usurpations of nobility.
  • With Paris, Wild Nicolas with the idea to rent Fits with body S with its customers. As it rented a house Rue Saint-Anthony which had a painted image of Saint Hackney carriage, the name remained for fit with body horse-drawn.

Science & technology

Religion

  • posthumous Publication of the Augustinus , of the bishop of Ypres Cornelius Jansen says Jansénius, founding document of the Jansénisme.
  • Returns of the Recluses to Port-Royal-of-Fields.
  • the métropolite of Kiev, the theologist Pierre Moghila, refutes the theses of Lukaris by publishing a Confessio fidei orthodoxiae influenced by the catholic Pierre Canisius. It makes of Kiev the center of the orthodoxe Counter-Reformation, which will influence the Moscovie later.

Art & culture

  • Foundation of royal printing works to the Louvre by Richelieu and Sublet de Noyers. It specializes in the typography of the Eastern characters and the production of pious works and traditional Latin.
  • the Society of Jesus account 521 colleges in Europe, accommodating approximately 150  000 pupils.

  • the Policy , treated Baltasar Gracián there Morals.
  • Elements of the natural and political right , Thomas Hobbes.

See also: 1640 with the theater

  • Holy Martin dividing his coat , fabric of Karel Skréta (1640 - 1650).
  • Living room of Venus of the Pitti palate of Florence, decorated by Pietro de Cortone (fine in 1647).
  • Construction of the Hotel Lambert (1640) and of the hotel Lauzun (1650-1660) in the Saint-Louis island in Paris, by Louis Vau.
  • Construction of the Abbey-with-Wood in Paris.

Births in 1640

Death in 1640

Easter Day

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