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

Years: 1639 1640 1641 1642 1643 - 1644 - 1645 1646 1647 1648 1649

Table of contents

1 Events 1.1 Ongoing events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

• July 2 - Battle of Marston Moor, a crushing victory for the Parliamentary side of the English Civil War ends Charles I's hold on the north of England.
• September 2 - Second Battle of Lostwithiel, the last major victory for Charles I and the Royalist side in the English Civil War.
• Pope Innocent X is elected to the Papacy, in Rome.
• November 23 - Areopagitica by John Milton is published.
• A peasant revolt brings an end to the Ming Dynasty in China. They are succeeded by the Qing Dynasty, sometimes known as the Manchu Emperors.
• The opera Ormindo is first performed in Venice. Music by Francesco Cavalli and libretto by Giovanni Faustini.

• English Civil War (1642-1649)

• 1644 in literature
• 1644 in science

• June 16 - Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland and later Duchess of Orleans.
• September 25 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer.

• July 29 - Pope Urban VIII