1643 Calendar
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1643 Historical Event(s)
January 21, 1643
– Abel Tasman becomes the first European to reach Tonga.
May 14, 1643
– Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
May 19, 1643
– Thirty Years’ War: French forces under the duc d'Enghien decisively defeat Spanish forces at the Battle of Rocroi, marking the symbolic end of Spain as a dominant land power.
July 13, 1643
– English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down – In England, Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, heavily defeats the Parliamentarian forces led by Sir William Waller.
December 13, 1643
– English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in Hampshire.
December 25, 1643
– Christmas Island found and named by Captain William Mynors of the East India Company vessel, the Royal Mary.
Who Were Born On 1643?
February 6, 1643
– Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg, first Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1712)
February 16, 1643
– John Sharp, English Archbishop of York (d. 1714)
March 25, 1643
– Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist (d. 1680)
April 3, 1643
– Charles V, Duke of Lorraine, general of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1690)
May 7, 1643
– Stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician (d. 1700)
September 18, 1643
– Gilbert Burnet, Scottish Bishop of Salisbury (d. 1715)
September 27, 1643
– Solomon Stoddard, American Puritan clergyman
November 1, 1643
– John Strype, English historian and biographer (d. 1737)
November 16, 1643
– Jean Chardin, French explorer (d. 1703)
November 21, 1643
– René-Robert Cavelier de LaSalle French explorer (d. 1687)