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December 1 - Portugal regains its independence from Spain and Joćo IV of Portugal becomes king. Spain does not recognize the indepedence before 1668
Charles I summons and rapidly dismisses the Short Parliament in an attempt to fund the second of the Bishops Wars.
November: The English Long Parliament is summoned.
Change of Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from Murat IV (1623-1640) to Ibrahim I (1640-1648)
First book printed in North America, the Bay Psalm Book
First known European coffee house opens in Venice
Births
June 9 - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor
Deaths
May 30 - Peter Paul Rubens, painter
Uriel Acosta, Portuguese Jewish philosopher, suicide
Category:1640
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