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

Decades: 1590s 1600s 1610s 1620s 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s

Years: 1638 1639 1640 1641 1642 - 1643 - 1644 1645 1646 1647 1648


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  • January 21 - Abel Tasman discovers Tonga
  • February 6 - Abel Tasman discovers the Fiji islands.
  • May 19 - Battle of Rocroi: French victory over the Spanish at Rocroi, France.
  • July 13 - English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down - In England, Lord Henry Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, wins a crushing victory over the Parliamentarian Sir William Waller.
  • An Calbhach mac Aodha O Conchobhair Donn inaugurated as the last king of Connacht
  • Austro-Bavarian army defeats French at Duttlingen.
  • The Royalist forces supporting Charles I in the English Civil War win the Battle of Adwalton Moor and gain control of Yorkshire.
  • End of the reign of Empress Meisho of Japan
  • Emperor Go-Komyo ascends to the throne of Japan
  • Evangelista Torricelli invents the mercury barometer
  • New England Confederation is formed
  • Battle of Tüttlingen fought
  • Baden-Baden pillaged by the French
  • John Colgan published the first two volumes of the Acta Sanctorum
  • Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve places the first cross atop Mount Royal
  • Åmål is granted its city charter
  • Miyamoto Musashi dictates The Book of Five Rings (Go Rin No Sho) to his student, completing it in 1654 just before his death
  • Hong Taiji, Emperor of the Qing Dynasty of the Manchu dies and is succeeded by his five year-old son, the later Shunzhi Emperor of China.
  • Roger Williams, a co-founder of Rhode Island, publishes A Key Into the Language of America
  • Evangelista Torricelli invented the Barometer.

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