1641

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  • The Long Parliament passes a series of legislation designed to contain Charles I's absolutist tendencies.
  • August 10Charles I of England flees London for the north
  • Irish Rebellion of 1641 - revolt of the Gaelic Irish in Ulster against the English settlers
  • The Dutch found a trading colony on Dejima, near Nagasaki, Japan.
  • Portugal is ousted from Malacca by the Dutch.
  • Claudio Monteverdi's opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria is first performed.
  • Moses Amyraut's De l'elevation de la foy et de l'abaissement de la raison en la creance des mysteres de la religion is published.
  • The Norwegian city of Kristiansand was founded by King Christian IV

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