1640s

The 1640s decade ran from January 1, 1640, to December 31, 1649.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century 17th century 18th century
Decades:	1620s 1630s 1640s 1650s 1660s
Years:	1640 1641 1642 1643 1644 1645 1646 1647 1648 1649
Categories:	Births Deaths By country By topic Establishments Disestablishments

Events

1640

January–June

• February 9 – Ibrahim I (1640–1648) succeeds Murad IV (1623–1640) as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
• March 8–13 – Siege of Galle: Dutch troops take the strategic fortress at Galle, Sri Lanka from the Portuguese.
• April 13 – The Short Parliament assembles, as King Charles I of England attempts to fund the second of the Bishops' Wars.
• May 5 – The Short Parliament is dissolved.
• May 22 – The Catalan Revolt (Guerra dels Segadors) breaks out in Catalonia.

July–December

• July 9 – John Punch, a servant of Virginia planter Hugh Gwyn, is sentenced to a life of servitude after attempting to escape, making him the "first official slave in the English colonies" [1]
• August 9 – Forty-one Spanish delegates to Japan at Nagasaki are beheaded.
• August 20 – Second Bishops' War: A Scottish Covenanter army invades Northumberland in England.[2]
• August 28 – Second Bishops' War – Battle of Newburn: The Scottish Covenanter army led by Alexander Leslie defeats the English army near Newburn in England.[2]
• September – Sebastien Manrique reaches Dhaka.
• October 26 – The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between the Scottish Covenanters and Charles I of England.[2]
• November 3 – The English Long Parliament is summoned;[2] it will not be dissolved for 20 years.
• December 1
  • End of the Iberian Union: A revolution organized by the nobility and bourgeoisie causes John IV of Portugal to be acclaimed as king, thus ending 60 years of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain, and the rule of the House of Habsburg (also called the Philippine Dynasty). The Spanish Habsburgs do not recognize Portugal's new dynasty, the House of Braganza, until the end of the Portuguese Restoration War in 1668.
  • Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg begins to rule.

Date unknown

• The first university in Finland, the Academy of Åbo, is founded in Turku.
• The first book to be printed in North America (the Bay Psalm Book) is published.
• The first known European coffeehouse opens in Venice.[3]

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References

1. Coates (2003). "Law and the Cultural Production of Race and Racialized Systems of Oppression" (PDF). American Behavioral Scientist. 47 (3).
2. "British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate 1638-60".
3. Elliott Horowitz (1989). "Coffee, Coffeehouses, and the Nocturnal Rituals of Early Modern Jewry". AJS Review. Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Association for Jewish Studies. 14 (1): 38. JSTOR 1486283.