1641

1641 was a common year.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1610s  1620s  1630s  – 1640s –  1650s  1660s  1670s
Years:	1638 1639 1640 – 1641 – 1642 1643 1644

Events

• The Long Parliament passes a series of laws written to help keep Charles I's absolutist policies.
• August 10 – Charles I of England runs from London to 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