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Year 1642 (MDCXLII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1642

January - June

• January 4 - Charles I attempts to arrest five leading members of the Long Parliament, but they escape. A precursor to English Civil War.
• March 1 - Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine) becomes the first incorporated city in America.
• March 19 - The citizens of Galway seize an English naval ship, close the town gates and declare support for Confederate Ireland.
• May 17 - Sieur de Maisonneuve founds the Ville Marie de Montreal.
• May 30 - All honours granted by Charles I from this date onward are retrospectively annulled by Parliament.

July - December

• July - Charles I besieges Hull in an attempt to gain control of its arsenal.
• August 4 - Lord Forbes relieves Forthill and besieges Galway.
• August 21 - First Battle of Lostwithiel.
• August 22 - King Charles I raised the royal battle standard over Nottingham Castle, so declaring war on his own Parliament.
• September 2 - Parliament orders the theatres of London closed, effectively ending the era of English Renaissance theatre.
• September 7 - Lord Forbes raises his unsuccessful siege of Galway.
• September 8 - Thomas Granger executed by hanging at Plymouth, Massachusetts for confessing to numerous acts of bestiality.
• September 29 - Rene Goupil the first of the Canadian Martyrs died in 1642 .
• October 23 - Battle of Edgehill the first pitched battle of the First English Civil War.
• November 13 - At the Battle of Turnham Green of the First English Civil War the Royalist forces withdrew in face of the Parliamentarian army and failed to take London.
• November 24 - Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).
• December 13 - Abel Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand.

Undated

• The Dutch drive Spain from Taiwan.
• Bro/broo in Sweden is granted the city rights for the second time and takes the name Kristinehamn.
• Rembrandt Harmenzoon van Rijn finishes his painting "The Night Watch".
• The Manchu under their leader Huang Taiji raid the Ming Chinese province of Shandong from their base in Manchuria. Two years later Beijing would fall to rebels, the Chongzhen Emperor would commit suicide, and the Shunzhi Emperor would become the first Qing Emperor to rule over China proper.
• A juvenile is executed for the first time in America, for the crime of bestiality with a cow and a horse.^[1]
• The Kaifeng flood of 1642 - some 300,000 people die when the Ming Dynasty army in China intentionally breaks the dams and dykes of the Yellow River to drown the large rebel force of Li Zicheng.

Births

• January 2 - Mehmed IV, Ottoman Sultan (died 1693)
• January 11 - Mary Carleton, impostor (died 1673)
• February 18 - Marie Champmeslé, French actress (died 1698)
• April 15 - Suleiman II, Ottoman Sultan (died 1691)
• June 20 - George Hickes, English minister and scholar (died 1715)
• August 14 - Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1723)
• November 11 - André Charles Boulle, French cabinet-maker (died 1732)
• December 6 - Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (died 1703)
• December 25 (O.S.) - Isaac Newton, mathematician and physicist (died 1727)
• December 30 - Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (died 1707)
• date unknown
  • John Archdale, British colonial governor (died 1717)
  • Abdul-Qader Bedil, Persian poet and Sufi (died 1720)
  • Bonaventure Giffard, English Catholic priest (died 1734)
  • Josep Romaguera, Catalan author (died 1723)

Deaths

• January 8 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist, age 77 (born 1564)
• February 7 - William Bedell, English clergyman (born 1571)
• April 30 - Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (born 1578)
• July 3 - Marie de' Medici, queen of Henry IV of France (born 1573)
• August 18 - Guido Reni, Italian painter (born 1575)
• September 3 - Elisabeth of Nassau, regent of Sedan (born 1577)
• September 12 - Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, French conspirator (born 1620)
• October 24 - Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey Fen drainage adventurer and soldier (born 1583)
• November 1 - Jean Nicolet, French explorer (born 1598)
• November 7 - Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, English politician (born c. 1563)
• December 4 - Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (born 1585)

References

1. ^ Samaha, Joel. "2", Criminal Law, Ninth, Thomas/Watson, 60. ISBN 0-495-095939-7. 

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