1642
Events January 4 - Charles I attempts to arrest five leading members of the Long Parliament, but they escape. Beginning of English Civil War. March 1 - Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine) becomes the first incorporated city in America May 17 - Sieur de Maisonneuve founds the Ville Marie de Montréal. July - Charles I besieges Hull in an attempt to gain control of its arsenal. September 8 - Thomas Granger executed by hanging at Plimouth, Massachusetts for confessing to numerous acts of bestiality. October - Battle of Edgehill. November 24 - Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania). The Dutch drive Spain from Taiwan. Abel Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand. Blaise Pascal produces a mechanical adding machine (the "Pascaline"). Claudio Monteverdi's opera l'Incoronazione di Poppeia is first performed. First Battle of Lostwithiel Jean-Baptiste Tavernier brings Hope diamond to Europe Puritans close all theaters in England Peter Stuyvesant becomes the governor of Curacao
Births April 15 - Suleiman II, Sultan, Ottoman Empire (d. 1691) August 14 - Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1723) December 25 - Isaac Newton, Mathematician (d. 1727)
Deaths January 8 - Galileo Galilei, Tuscan astronomer (b. 1564) June 14 - Saskia van Uylenburg, wife of Rembrandt van Rijn (b. 1612) December 4 - Armand-Jean Duplessis Richelieu, French cardinal and statesman
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