1643 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1643?
- January 21, 1643 – Abel Tasman becomes the first European to reach Tonga.
- May 14, 1643 – Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
- May 19, 1643 – Thirty Years’ War: French forces under the duc d'Enghien decisively defeat Spanish forces at the Battle of Rocroi, marking the symbolic end of Spain as a dominant land power.
- July 13, 1643 – English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down – In England, Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, heavily defeats the Parliamentarian forces led by Sir William Waller.
- December 13, 1643 – English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in Hampshire.
- December 25, 1643 – Christmas Island found and named by Captain William Mynors of the East India Company vessel, the Royal Mary.
Who Were Born In The Year 1643?
- February 6, 1643 – Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg, first Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1712)
- February 16, 1643 – John Sharp, English Archbishop of York (d. 1714)
- February 25, 1643 – Ahmed II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1695)
- March 25, 1643 – Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist (d. 1680)
- April 3, 1643 – Charles V, Duke of Lorraine, general of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1690)
- May 7, 1643 – Stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician (d. 1700)
- August 21, 1643 – King Afonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683)
- September 18, 1643 – Gilbert Burnet, Scottish Bishop of Salisbury (d. 1715)
- September 27, 1643 – Solomon Stoddard, American Puritan clergyman
- October 14, 1643 – Emperor Bahadur Shah I of India (d. 1712)
- November 1, 1643 – John Strype, English historian and biographer (d. 1737)
- November 16, 1643 – Jean Chardin, French explorer (d. 1703)
- November 21, 1643 – René-Robert Cavelier de LaSalle French explorer (d. 1687)
- November 22, 1643 – Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French explorer (d. 1687)
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