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Calendar overview 1643
Map with all linked sites: | 1643 | |
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 Louis XIII. dies after 33 years of reign. |
 opens the Torstensson War against Denmark . |
 , Spain suffers the worst defeat in its history. |
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| 1643 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 1091/92 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1635/36 (September 11-12) |
| Bengali solar calendar | 1048/49 (beginning of April 14th or 15th) |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 1699/1700 (April) |
| Buddhist calendar | 2186/87 (southern Buddhism); 2185/86 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 72nd (73rd) cycle
Year of the water sheep癸未 ( at the beginning of the year water horse 壬午) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 1005/06 (turn of the year April) |
| Dangun era (Korea) | 3976/77 (October 2/3) |
| Iranian calendar | 1021/22 (around March 21) |
| Islamic calendar | 1052/53 (March 21/22) |
| Jewish calendar | 5403/04 (September 13-14) |
| Coptic calendar | 1359/60 (September 11-12) |
| Malayalam calendar | 818/819 |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1953/54 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 1954/55 (turn of the year October) |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 1699/1700 (April) |
Events
Politics and world events
France / Spain
- May 14 : At the age of four, the future Sun King Louis XIV comes to the royal throne in France . For the time being, his mother Anna of Austria is in charge of state affairs as regent .
- May 18th : After the death of her husband Ludwig XIII. appoints the French regent Anna of Austria Cardinal Jules Mazarin as Prime Minister in France. In doing so, it implements a decision made by the deceased who appointed the chosen one to succeed Cardinal Richelieu, who died on December 4, 1642, to take care of the affairs of state.
- May 19 : The Battle of Rocroi in the Franco-Spanish War ends with the worst defeat the Spanish army has ever suffered. The victory of the French under Louis II. De Bourbon, prince de Condé , over the Spanish troops led by Francisco de Melo marks the rise of France to a European hegemonic power .
- May to September: With the Cabale des Importants , a group of aristocrats around François de Bourbon-Vendôme, duc de Beaufort and Marie de Rohan-Montbazon, duchesse de Chevreuse tried in vain to overthrow the partisans Richelieu and Mazarins.
Thirty Years' War
- November 24th : During the Thirty Years War , the French armed forces under Josias Rantzau are attacked by Bavarian and imperial troops on their winter quarters. In the battle near Tuttlingen , the opposing military leaders Franz von Mercy , Melchior von Hatzfeldt , Johann von Werth and Duke Charles IV of Lorraine win .
- December 12th : Thirty Years War : The Torstensson War breaks out between Denmark and Sweden . Swedish troops led by Lennart Torstensson unexpectedly attack Danish areas in Holstein .
England and Ireland
- March 18 : At the Battle of New Ross , the English army under James Butler defeats the Irish Confederation forces under Thomas Preston .
- March 19 : Both sides claim victory at the Battle of Hopton Heath in the English Civil War .
- August 17 : The English Parliament concludes with the Scottish Covenanters the solemn league and covenant .
- September 5th : A battle near Gloucester between Oliver Cromwell's parliamentary troops and royalist units under King Charles I ends in a draw.
- October 11 : Parliamentary troops prevail against royal units in the Battle of Winceby .
America
- February 25 : The Pavonia massacre by Dutch soldiers from Nieuw Nederland in a peaceful Wappinger village leads to the Wappinger War .
- Petrus Stuyvesant is appointed governor of Curaçao , Aruba and Bonaire by the Dutch West India Company .
- The New England Confederation is founded.
Voyages of discovery
- January 6th : The Dutch navigator Abel Tasman gives the discovered Three Kings Islands their name.
- February 5 : The Dutch navigator Abel Tasman is the first European to sight the Fiji island of Taveuni . The 180th degree of longitude runs over them . In the next few days he will see other islands in the archipelago. Tasman also enters the Tonga Islands on the same trip .
- December 25 : Captain William Mynors discovered in the Indian Ocean located Christmas Island .
economy
- The Würzburger Hofbräu is founded.
science and technology
- Evangelista Torricelli and Otto von Guericke prove the existence of static pressure (imprint). Torricelli uses a mercury tub and invents the mercury barometer with it , Guericke works with vacuum hemispheres .
Culture
- June 30th : Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, who soon called himself Molière , founds the acting company L'Illustre Théâtre by contract with nine other people .
- Rembrandt van Rijn : The landscape with the three trees
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini completes the Triton Fountain in Piazza Barberini in Rome. The client is Pope Urban VIII , who comes from the House of Barberini .
religion
- Ngawang Lobsang Gyatsho writes the Chronicle of the Fifth Dalai Lama .
Born
First half of the year
- January 4 : Isaac Newton , English scientist and administrator († 1727 )
- February 6 : Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg , Prussian minister († 1712 )
- February 11 : Wolfgang Christoph Truchsess von Waldburg , Major General of Brandenburg († 1688 )
- February 13 : Jacobus Sackmann , German Protestant theologian († 1718 )
- February 17 : Johann Friedrich Bachoff von Echt , German lawyer, court official and statesman († 1726 )
- March 4 : Fran Krsto Frankopan , Croatian politician and writer († 1671 )
- March 25 : Louis Moréri , French encyclopedia († 1680 )
- April 3 : Charles V , Duke of Lorraine and imperial general († 1690 )
- May 14 : Giacomo Amato , Italian architect († 1732 )
Second half of the year
- July 15 : Henri Arnaud , French pastor and Waldensian leader († 1721 )
- July 29 : Henri Jules de Bourbon , Prince of Condé († 1709 )
- August 21 : Alfonso VI. , King of Portugal from the House of Braganza († 1683 )
- October 18 : Johann Eisenhart , German legal scholar († 1707 )
- October 25 : Georg Ludwig Agricola , German musician († 1676 )
- November 22 : René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle , French explorer († 1687 )
- November 23 : Eberhard von Danckelman , Upper President of Brandenburg († 1722 )
- November 24 : Johann Bernhard Friese , German legal scholar († 1726 )
- November 26th : Jean Chardin , French explorer († 1713 )
- December 26 : Ernest Alexandre Dominique d'Arenberg , Prince of Chimay († 1686 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Christine von Ahlefeldt , Chief Chamberlain and Minister of the Electress of Electoral Saxony († 1691 )
- Marx Augustin , German banter, bagpiper and impromptu poet († 1685 )
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier , French composer († 1704 )
- Euthymios Saifi , bishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church and founder of the order († 1723 )
Died
First half of the year
- January 7th : Günther XLII. , Count of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (* 1570 )
- February 5 : Johannes Steuber , German Hebraist and theologian (* 1590 )
- February 11 : Anna Maria , Countess Palatine of Neuburg and Duchess of Saxe-Weimar (* 1575 )
- February 15 : Juliane von Nassau-Dillenburg , Countess of Hessen-Kassel (* 1587 )
- March 1 : Girolamo Frescobaldi , Italian Baroque composer and organist (* 1583 )
- March 19 : Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton , English military, politician and peer (* 1601 )
- April 12 : Nikolaus Hunnius , German Lutheran theologian (* 1585 )
- April 20 : Christoph Demantius , German composer (* 1567 )
- May 14 : Ludwig XIII. , King of France (* 1601 )
- May 17 : Giovanni Picchi , Italian lutenist, organist and composer (* around 1571 )
- June 9 : Bengt Bengtsson Oxenstierna , Swedish Governor General of Ingermanland and Livonia (* 1591 )
Second half of the year
- July 12 : François Duquesnoy , Flemish sculptor (* 1597 )
- July 13 : Johannes Kromayer , German Lutheran theologian and school reformer of Thuringia in the age of Lutheran Orthodoxy (* 1576 )
- August 7 : Hendrik Brouwer , navigator and governor-general of the Dutch East Indies (* around 1581 )
- September 21 : Huang Taiji , Emperor of China (* 1592 )
- November 3 : Paul Guldin , astronomer and professor of mathematics in Graz and Vienna (* 1577 )
- November 14th : Georg Aribert von Anhalt-Dessau , Anhalt regent (* 1606 )
- November 29th : Tobias Adami , Prussian civil servant, philosopher and member of the Fruitful Society (* 1581 )
- November 29 : Claudio Monteverdi , Italian composer (* 1567 )
- December 8th : Antoine de Boësset , French composer (* 1587 )
- December 8th : John Pym , lawyer and spokesman for the parliamentary party in the English lower house at the time of Charles I of England (* 1584 )
- December 11th : Hermann von Wrangel , Swedish field marshal and governor of Livonia (* 1587 )
- December 16 : Hermann Samson , German-Baltic clergyman and educator (* 1579 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Frang Bardhi , Bishop of the Diocese of Sapa and Sardis (* 1606 )
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