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

Events of 1643

January - June

January 4 - Isaac Newton is born
January 21 - Abel Tasman discovers the island of 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 - December

July 5 - English Civil War: The Battle of Lansdowne is indecisive.

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.

September 20 - Royalists withdraw to end further bloodshed after the First Battle of Newbury.

October 28 - The Dutch corsairs end their occupation of Valdivia in what is now Chile.

November 14 - Empress Meishō abdicates and Emperor Go-Kōmyō accedes to the throne of Japan.

November 24 - The Battle of Tuttlingen results in the defeat of France by forces of the Holy Roman Empire.

Undated

An Calbhach mac Aodha O Conchobhair Donn inaugurated as the last king of Connacht.

Austro-Bavarian army defeats French at Duttlingen.

Evangelista Torricelli invents the mercury barometer.

New England Confederation is formed.

Baden-Baden pillaged by the French.

Jean Bolland published the first two volumes of the Acta Sanctorum (in Antwerp). This is the beginning of the Bollandists' work.

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.

Ongoing events

English Civil War (1642-1649)

30 Year's War (1618-1648)

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 (died 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) � See also .

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, 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) � See also .

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