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1643 (MDCXLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

    1643
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Events

January 21 - Abel Tasman discovers Tonga

February 6 - Abel Tasman discovers the Fiji islands

March 13 - First Battle of Middlewich in the English Civil War. During this battle the Roundheads routed the Cavaliers at Middlewich in Cheshire, England

May 14 - Louis XIV (of France) succeeds Louis XIII

May 19 - Battle of Rocroi: French victory over the Spanish at Rocroi, France

June 30 - Cavaliers (supporters of Charles I in the English Civil War) win the Battle of Adwalton Moor and gain control of Yorkshire

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

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

Claudio Monteverdi's opera l'Incoronazione di Poppea is first performed

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

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Ongoing events

English Civil War (1642-1649)

30 Year's War (1618-1648)

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Births

January 4 (N.S.) - Sir Isaac Newton, mathematician and physicist (died 1727)

February 16 - John Sharp, English Archbishop of Yorkshire (died 1714)

February 25 - Ahmed II, Ottoman Sultan (died 1695)

March 25 - Louis Moréri, French encylopedist (ddied 1680)

April 3 - Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine, general of the Holy Roman Empire (died 1690)

May 7 - Stephanus Van Cortlandt, first native Mayor of New York (died 1700)

August 12 - King Afonso VI of Portugal (died 1683)

September 18 - Gilbert Burnet, Scottish Bishop of Salisbury (died 1715)

September 27 - Solomon Stoddard, American minister (died 1729)

October 14 - Bahadur Shah I, Mughal Emperor of India (died 1712)

November 1 - John Strype, English historian and biographer (died 1737)

November 22 - René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French explorer (died 1687)

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Deaths

February 25 - Marco da Gagliano, Italian composer (b. 1582)

March 1 - Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer (b. 1583)

April 4 - Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (b. 1583)

April 20 - Christoph Demantius, German composer (b. 1567)

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 - Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, English politician and writer

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)

November 29 - Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (b. 1567)

December 8 - John Pym, English statesman (b. 1583)

Giovanni Baglione, Italian painter and historian of art (b. 1566)

Herman Wrangel, Swedish soldier and politician

Emperor Hong Taiji of China (b. 1592)

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