1643

This article is about the year 1643.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1610s  1620s  1630s  – 1640s –  1650s  1660s  1670s
Years:	1640 1641 1642 – 1643 – 1644 1645 1646

1643 by topic:

Arts and Science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1643 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1643 MDCXLIII
Ab urbe condita	2396
Armenian calendar	1092 ԹՎ ՌՂԲ
Assyrian calendar	6393
Bengali calendar	1050
Berber calendar	2593
English Regnal year	18 Cha. 1 – 19 Cha. 1
Buddhist calendar	2187
Burmese calendar	1005
Byzantine calendar	7151–7152
Chinese calendar	壬午年 (Water Horse) 4339 or 4279     — to — 癸未年 (Water Goat) 4340 or 4280
Coptic calendar	1359–1360
Discordian calendar	2809
Ethiopian calendar	1635–1636
Hebrew calendar	5403–5404
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1699–1700
- Shaka Samvat	1565–1566
- Kali Yuga	4744–4745
Holocene calendar	11643
Igbo calendar	643–644
Iranian calendar	1021–1022
Islamic calendar	1052–1053
Japanese calendar	Kan'ei 20 (寛永２０年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3976
Minguo calendar	269 before ROC 民前269年
Thai solar calendar	2185–2186

1643 (MDCXLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (dominical letter D) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday (dominical letter A) of the Julian calendar, the 1643rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 643rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 43rd year of the 17th century, and the 4th year of the 1640s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1643 is 10 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

Events

January–June

• c. January – Claudio Monteverdi's opera L'incoronazione di Poppea is first performed at the Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice.
• January 21 – Abel Tasman discovers the island of Tonga.
• February 6 – Abel Tasman discovers the Fiji islands.
• March 13 – First English Civil War – First Battle of Middlewich: The Roundheads rout the Cavaliers at Middlewich in Cheshire, England.
• April 1 – Åmål, Sweden is granted its city charter.
• April 28 – Francisco de Lucena, former Portuguese Secretary of State, is beheaded after being charged with treason.
• May 14 – Louis XIV succeeds Louis XIII as King of France at age five. His rule will last until his death at age 77 in 1715, a total of 72 years, which will be the longest reign of any European monarch in recorded history.
• May 19
  • Battle of Rocroi: The French defeat the Spanish at Rocroi, France.
  • The New England Confederation is formed as a military alliance.
• June 30 – First English Civil War – Battle of Adwalton Moor: Cavaliers (supporters of Charles I) gain control of Yorkshire.

July–December

• July 1 – First meeting of the Westminster Assembly of Divines
• July 5 – First English Civil War – Battle of Lansdowne: Royalists and Parliamentarians battle to a draw.
• July 13 – First 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.
• September 20 – First English Civil War – First Battle of Newbury: Royalists withdraw to end further bloodshed.
• September 21 – Hong Taiji, Qing dynasty Emperor of China dies.
• October 8 – The Shunzhi Emperor of China is crowned age 5, having been chosen to succeed his father by the Deliberative Council of Princes and Ministers.
• October 28 – The Dutch corsairs end their occupation of Valdivia in what will become Chile.
• November 14 – Empress Meishō abdicates and Emperor Go-Kōmyō accedes to the throne of Japan.
• November 24 – Battle of Tuttlingen: France is defeated by forces of the Holy Roman Empire.
• December 25 – Christmas Island is first sighted, by Captain William Mynors of the British East India Company on the Royal Mary.

Date unknown

• An Calbhach mac Aedh Ó Conchobhair Donn, The Ó Conchubhair Donn, Chief of the Name of the Clan Ó Conchubhair, is popularly inaugurated as last King of Connacht in Ireland.
• Baden-Baden is pillaged by the French.
• Evangelista Torricelli invents the mercury barometer.
• Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve, places the first Mount Royal Cross atop Mount Royal above Montreal.
• Jean Bolland publishes the first two volumes of the Acta Sanctorum (in Antwerp). This is the beginning of the Bollandists' work.
• Miyamoto Musashi begins to dictate The Book of Five Rings (Go Rin No Sho) to his student, completing it in 1654 just before his death.
• Roger Williams, a co-founder of Rhode Island, publishes A Key into the Language of America.

Births

• January 7 – Sir Samuel Grimston, 3rd Baronet, English politician (d. 1700)
• January 13 – Axel Wachtmeister, Count of Mälsåker, Swedish field marshal (d. 1699)
• January 25 – John Hayes (1643–1705), English politician (d. 1705)
• January 30 – Sir Francis Blundell, 3rd Baronet (d. 1707)
• February 6 – Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg, Prussian politician (d. 1712)
• February 16 – John Sharp, English Archbishop of York (d. 1714)
• February 25 – Ahmed II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1695)
• February 25 – Christian Franz Paullini, German physician (d. 1712)
• March 4 – Fran Krsto Frankopan, Croatian baroque poet, nobleman and politician (d. 1671)
• March 8 – Nabeshima Naoyuki, Daimyo (d. 1725)
• March 17 – Fabrizio Spada, Catholic cardinal (d. 1717)
• March 23 – Mary of Jesus de León y Delgado, Spanish nun and mystic (d. 1731)
• March 25 – Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist (d. 1680)
• March 28 – Anthony Dopping, Anglican Bishop of Meath (d. 1697)
• April 3 – Charles V, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1690)
• April 6 – Nehemiah Jewett, politician (d. 1720)
• May 3 – Georg Franck von Franckenau (d. 1704)
• May 7 – Stephanus Van Cortlandt, first native Mayor of New York (d. 1700)
• May 9 – Charles Kirkhoven, 1st Earl of Bellomont, Dutch-born Irish peer (d. 1683)
• May 10 – Gabriel Revel, French painter (d. 1712)
• May 29 – Patrick Lyon, 3rd Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, Scottish earl (d. 1695)
• June 26 – Burchard de Volder, Dutch mathematician (d. 1709)
• July 3 – Johann Ernst von Thun, Catholic bishop (d. 1709)
• July 28 – Antonio Tarsia (composer), Composer (d. 1722)
• July 29 – Henri Jules, Prince of Condé (d. 1709)
• August 3 – Charles de la Rue, Latin poet (d. 1725)
• August 12 – King Afonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683)
• August 16 – Mumtaz Shikoh, Mughal Empire emperor (d. 1647)
• August 18 – William Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Harzgerode (d. 1709)
• August 21 – Afonso VI of Portugal, King of Portugal and the Algarves (d. 1683)
• August 26 – Cardinal de Bouillon, Catholic cardinal (d. 1715)
• September 3 – Lorenzo Bellini (d. 1704)
• September 5 – Sir William Portman, 6th Baronet, English politician (d. 1690)
• September 6 – François-Joseph de Beaupoil de Sainte-Aulaire, French poet (d. 1742)
• September 14 – Jeremiah Dummer (silversmith), American silversmith (d. 1718)
• September 14 – Joseph de Jouvancy, French historian (d. 1719)
• September 17 – Francis Howard, 5th Baron Howard of Effingham (d. 1694)
• September 18 – Gilbert Burnet, Scottish Bishop of Salisbury (d. 1715)
• September 27 – Solomon Stoddard, American Colonial pastor (d. 1729)
• September 30 – Samuel Hoadly, Schoolmaster and writer of educational books (d. 1705)
• October 5 – Zinat-un-Nissa, Imperial princess of the Mughal Empire (d. 1721)
• October 14 – Bahadur Shah I, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1712)
• November 1 – John Strype, English historian and biographer (d. 1737)
• November 4 – Asano Nagatomo, Daimyo who ruled the Akō Domain (d. 1675)
• November 16 – Jean Chardin (d. 1713)
• November 21 – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French explorer (d. 1687)
• November 23 – Eberhard von Danckelmann, Prussian politician (d. 1722)

Deaths

• February 25 – Marco da Gagliano, Italian composer (b. 1582)
• March 1 – Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer (b. 1583)
• March 1 – Rustam Khan, Georgian-Iranian soldier (b. c. 1588)
• April 4 – Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (b. 1583)
• April 20 – Christoph Demantius, German composer (b. 1567)
• April 28 – Francisco de Lucena, Portuguese Secretary of State (b. 1578?)
• May 14 – King Louis XIII of France (b. 1601)
• July 25 – Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, English statesman (b. 1584)
• August 20 – Anne Hutchinson, English Puritan preacher (b. 1591)
• September 15 – Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician (b. 1566)
• September 20, at the Battle of Newbury:
  • Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, English politician and writer
  • Robert Dormer, 1st Earl of Carnarvon
  • Henry Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland
• September 21 – Emperor Hong Taiji of China (b. 1592)
• November 3 – John Bainbridge, English astronomer (b. 1583)
• November 3 – Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (b. 1577)
• November 16 – Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, Marshal of France (b. 1602)
• November 29
  • William Cartwright, English dramatist (b. 1611)
  • Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (b. 1567)
• December 8 – John Pym, English statesman (b. 1583)
• December 11 – Herman Wrangel, Swedish soldier and politician
• December 30 – Giovanni Baglione, Italian painter and historian of art (b. 1566)
• approx. date – Henry Glapthorne, English dramatist (b. 1610)