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The Long Parliament passes a series of legislation designed to contain Charles I's absolutist tendencies.
August 10 – Charles I of England flees London for the north
Irish Rebellion of 1641 - revolt of the Gaelic Irish in Ulster against the English settlers
The Dutch found a trading colony on Dejima, near Nagasaki, Japan.
Portugal is ousted from Malacca by the Dutch.
Claudio Monteverdi's opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria is first performed.
Moses Amyraut's De l'elevation de la foy et de l'abaissement de la raison en la creance des mysteres de la religion is published.
The Norwegian city of Kristiansand was founded by King Christian IV
Births
March - Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester
August 5 - John Hathorne, magistrate († 1717)
October 5 - Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, mistress of *Louis XIV of France
Pierre Allix, French Protestant clergyman
Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian nobleman and polymath
Deaths
January 3 - Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomer (* c.1619)
May 12 - Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford
December 9 - Sir Anthony van Dyck, painter
Category:1641
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