Events 1642

1 events

1.1 january–june
1.2 july–december
1.3 date unknown

events

december 13: abel tasman sights new zealand.

january–june

january 4 – first english civil war: charles attempts arrest 6 leading members of long parliament, escape.
march 1 – georgeana, massachusetts (now known york, maine) becomes first incorporated city in america.
march 19 – citizens of galway seize english naval ship, close town gates, , declare support confederate ireland.
april 8 – george spencer executed new haven colony, alleged bestiality.
may 1 – honours granted charles i, date onward, retrospectively annulled parliament.
may 17 – ville-marie (later montreal) founded permanent settlement.

july–december

july – first english civil war: charles besieges hull, in attempt gain control of arsenal.
august 4 – lord forbes relieves forthill, , besieges galway.
august 22 – king charles raises royal battle standard on nottingham castle, declaring war on own parliament.
september 2 – parliament orders theatres of london closed, ending era of english renaissance theatre.
september 6 - england s long parliament suppresses stages plays in theatres.
september 7 – lord forbes raises unsuccessful siege of galway.
september 8 – thomas granger executed hanging @ plymouth, massachusetts, confessing numerous acts of bestiality.
october 23 – first english civil war – battle of edgehill: royalists , parliamentarians battle draw.
november 13 – first english civil war – battle of turnham green: royalist forces withdraw in face of parliamentarian army, , fail take london.
november 24 – abel tasman becomes first european discover island van diemen s land (later renamed tasmania).
december 13 – abel tasman first recorded european sight new zealand.
december 25 – birth of british polymath, isaac newton.

date unknown

the dutch drive spain taiwan.
the village of bro (broo), sweden granted city rights second time, , takes name kristinehamn (literally christina s port ) after swedish monarch, queen christina.
rembrandt finishes painting, night watch.
the manchu, under leader hong taiji, raid ming chinese province of shandong base in manchuria. 2 years later beijing falls rebels, chongzhen emperor commits suicide, , shunzhi emperor becomes first qing emperor rule on china proper.
1642 yellow river flood: 300,000 people die, when ming dynasty army in china intentionally breaks dams , dykes of yellow river, break siege large rebel force of li zicheng.
isaac aboab da fonseca appointed rabbi in pernambuco, brazil, becoming first rabbi of americas.