This page relates to the year 1643 Gregorian Calendrier.
Events
Africa
Americas
Asia
- the Dutchmen (Maarten Gerritszoon de Vries) discover the Kouriles.
- Russian Forwarding of Vassili Poiarkov, sent by the voïévode of Yakoutsk, Pierre Golodine. It goes up the Aldan, discovers the course of the Amour to its mouth and follows the littoral until the site of Okhotsk.
- Famine in India.
Oceania
Europe
- January 14th: Government of Shine of Haro in Spain (fine in 1661).
- Olivares is banished because of the interior disorders caused by its policy of oppressive taxation. Its nephew gift Luis Méndez de Haro succeeds to him.
- Creation of the Council of Overseas to the Portugal.
- Construction of the Zeughaus to Graz in Austria. It was the vastest deposit of weapons of the world.
- the squadron of De Witt ensures the freedom of passage of the Sund the Dutch ships.
- Azov is destroyed and evacuated by the Cosaques of the Don. The Russia deprives of the access to the Black Sea.
France
See also: 1643 in France
British Isles
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September: Signature of the Solemn League and Covenant with Westminster, alliance of the English Parliament and the covenantaires Scottish against king Charles Ier, in exchange of the promise to establish a system presbytérien in England (1643 - 1648).
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the parliamentary opposition loses its principal leaders with the death of John Hampden (May 24th), of John Pym (December 8th) and of Lord Brooke (Robert Greville). The center of gravity of the Communes slips towards the most intransigent elements, which claim a total freedom of conscience, a decentralized Church, without bishops nor royal supervision, on the principle of the total independence of each parish.
Religion
- January 15th: Bubble In Eminent . The pope Urbain VIII prohibits any debate on the Grâce. Proscription of the Augustinus by the pope.
- March 25th: Saint Jean Eudes founds with Caen the congregation of Jesus-and-Marie (Eudistes).
- Correspondence of Philippe IV of Spain with the nun Marie de Agreda.
- Relatione beyond large monarcha della Cina , of the Jesuit Portuguese Alvaro Semado, published in Rome. It indexes 54 persecutions of the Christians in China since 1583.
- Of the frequent communion , Antoine Arnauld.
Arts & culture
- Redécouverte by the Icelandic bishop Brynjólfur Sveinsson of a collection of old poetic texts known under the name of Edda, written during second half of the 13th century. It is about a heteroclite collection of about thirty poems writes as from the 8th century or 9th century by various authors. They tell account mythological (the Hávamal , the Völuspá , the Rêve of Baldr , the Chant of Thrymr , the Dit of Grimnir , the Dit of Vafthrudnir ) or heroic (the Dit of Sígdrifa , the Prédiction of Gripir , the epopee of Sigurdhr ), which refer to the age migrations (exploits of the Huns, Goths or Francs).
- Deutschgesinnte Gesellschaft , literary company organized with Hamburg by Philippe von Zesen (1617 - 1689), with an aim of purifying the orthography and of eliminating the terms from low-German.
- Mazarin opens its library of 35 000 volumes with the public (the first in France).
- Bossuet sermon with the Hotel of Rambouillet.
See also: 1643 with the theater
- May 19th: André Ours receives from Louis XIV the patent of draftsman of the royal gardens .
- Smoke den or the body of guard fabric of Louis the Dwarf.
Sciences, technology & discovered
Economy & company
- Creation of the Company of the East by the France.
- Mazarin increases the budget of the French State to 1000 tons of money equivalent. It carries the non-recurring expenses and of war to 123 million books on average between 1642 and 1647.
- the Livre tournaments remains stable under Mazarin.
- Creation of a direct tax on the land and buildings in England (Land tax).
Births in 1643
(this date corresponds to the Gregorian Calendrier then of use in France. In England where it was not applied yet, its birth coincides with the December 25th 1642)
Death in 1643
- February 25th: Marco da Gagliano (v. 1575-1643), official type-setter of the Médicis.
- March 1st: Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian type-setter .
- April 9th: Benedetto Castelli, Mathematician Italy N, disciple of Galileo. (° 1577).
- May 14th: Louis XIII, king de France.
- September 21st: Abaqaï, Manchu emperor .
- November 29th: Claudio Monteverdi, Italian type-setter .
- December 8th: Antoine Boësset, type-setter French.
- October 11th: Jean Duvergier de Hauranne, abbot of Saint-Cyran, theologist Jansenist (born close to Bayonne in 1581). It left little before Vincennes where it remained nearly five years.
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