1640

Years:
1637 1638 1639 - 1640 - 1641 1642 1643

Decades:
1610s 1620s 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s

Centuries:
16th century - 17th century - 18th century

1640 by topic:
Arts and Science
Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science
Lists of leaders
Colonial governors - State leaders
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Works category
Works

1640 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events

Charles I summons the Short Parliament in an attempt to fund the second of the Bishops Wars.
May 5 - King Charles I of England disbands the Short Parliament.
October 26 - The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Scotland and Charles I of England.
November: The English Long Parliament is summoned.
December 1 - Portugal regains its independence from Spain and João IV of Portugal becomes king. Spain does not recognize the Independence until 1668.
Change of Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from Murat IV (1623-1640) to Ibrahim I (1640-1648).
First book printed in North America, the Bay Psalm Book.
First known European coffee house opens in Venice.
Henry Glapthorne flourishes.

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 - Michał Wiśniowiecki, King of Poland (d. 1673)
June 9 - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1705)
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)

See also Category:1640 births.

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 10 - Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer (b. 1578)
May 30 - Peter Paul Rubens, German painter (b. 1577)
June 3 - John Aylmer, English political theorist (b. 1521)
June 3 - Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (b. 1584)
October 20 - John Ball, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1585)
December 30 - John Regis, French saint (b. 1597)
Uriel Acosta, Portuguese philosopher (suicide) (b. 1585)

See also Category:1640 deaths.

The play Cyrano by Edmond Rostand takes place in the year 1640.

Category: 1640