1640 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1640?
- May 5, 1640 – King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.
- August 28, 1640 – Second Bishop’s War: King Charles I’s English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn.
- October 26, 1640 – The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Scotland and Charles I of England.
- December 1, 1640 – End of the Iberian Union: Portugal acclaims as King João IV of Portugal, ending 60 years of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain and the end of the rule of the House of Habsburg (also called the Philippine Dynasty).
Who Were Born In The Year 1640?
- January 25, 1640 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman (d. 1707)
- March 18, 1640 – Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1719)
- March 30, 1640 – John Trenchard, English politician (d. 1695)
- April 1, 1640 – Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (d. 1697)
- May 31, 1640 – Michael of Poland (d. 1673)
- June 5, 1640 – Pu Songling, Chinese writer (d. 1715)
- June 9, 1640 – Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1705)
- June 15, 1640 – Bernard Lamy, French mathematician (d. 1715)
- September 29, 1640 – Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (d. 1720)
- November 28, 1640 – Willem de Vlamingh, Flemish sea captain
- December 6, 1640 – Claude Fleury, French historian (d. 1723)
- December 13, 1640 – Robert Plot, English naturalist (d. 1696)
- December 14, 1640 – (baptism date) – Aphra Behn, English playwright and novelist (d. 1689)
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