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Calendar year
Millennium:
2nd millennium
Centuries:
16th century
17th century
18th century
Decades:
1620s
1630s
1640s
1650s
1660s
Years:
1639
1640
1641
1642
1643
1644
1645
January 4: King Charles of England attempts to have five leading opponents in Parliament arrested.
1642 by topic
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1642 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar
1642 MDCXLII
Ab urbe condita
2395
Armenian calendar
1091 ԹՎ ՌՂԱ
Assyrian calendar
6392
Balinese saka calendar
1563–1564
Bengali calendar
1049
Berber calendar
2592
English Regnal year
17 Cha. 1 – 18 Cha. 1
Buddhist calendar
2186
Burmese calendar
1004
Byzantine calendar
7150–7151
Chinese calendar
辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 4339 or 4132 — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 4340 or 4133
Coptic calendar
1358–1359
Discordian calendar
2808
Ethiopian calendar
1634–1635
Hebrew calendar
5402–5403
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat
1698–1699
- Shaka Samvat
1563–1564
- Kali Yuga
4742–4743
Holocene calendar
11642
Igbo calendar
642–643
Iranian calendar
1020–1021
Islamic calendar
1051–1052
Japanese calendar
Kan'ei 19 (寛永１９年)
Javanese calendar
1563–1564
Julian calendar
Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar
3975
Minguo calendar
270 before ROC 民前270年
Nanakshahi calendar
174
Thai solar calendar
2184–2185
Tibetan calendar
阴金蛇年 (female Iron-Snake) 1768 or 1387 or 615 — to — 阳水马年 (male Water-Horse) 1769 or 1388 or 616
Rembrandt finishes The Night Watch.October 23: Battle of Edgehill
1642 (MDCXLII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1642nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 642nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 42nd year of the 17th century, and the 3rd year of the 1640s decade. As of the start of 1642, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
1642 (MDCXLII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1642nd...
machinations between Royalists and Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England from 1642 to 1651. Part of the wider 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms, the struggle...
The First English Civil War took place in England and Wales from 1642 to 1646, and forms part of the 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms. An estimated...
On 2 September 1642, just after the First English Civil War had begun, the Long Parliament ordered the closure of all London theatres. The order cited...
1640–1630 BC Ishkibal, King of the Sealand, r. 1657–1642 BC Shushshi, King of the Sealand, r. 1642–1618 BC Shahmiri, Cyrus (2004). "The Elamite Empire"...
The year 1642 in science and technology involved some significant events. Rundetårn astronomical observatory for the University of Copenhagen is completed...
The 1642 Yellow River flood or Kaifeng flood was a man-made disaster in October, 1642, that principally affected Kaifeng and Xuzhou. Kaifeng is located...
Events from the year 1642 in Sweden Monarch – Christina Battle of Schweidnitz. 23 October - Battle of Breitenfeld (1642), the Second Battle of Breitenfeld...
England during the English Civil War, the Interregnum, and the Restoration (1642 – c. 1679). It was later adopted by the Royalists themselves. Although it...
and Scottish parliaments, and helped precipitate his own downfall. From 1642, Charles fought the armies of the English and Scottish parliaments in the...
the Parliamentarian army when the First English Civil War began in August 1642. He quickly demonstrated his military abilities and in 1645 was appointed...
Beggar regulation of 1642 (Swedish: 1642 års tiggareordning) was a Swedish Poor Law which organized the public Poor relief in the Sweden. The regulations...
their merchant marine. Henry IV's son Louis XIII and his minister (1624–1642) Cardinal Richelieu, elaborated a policy against Spain and the Holy Roman...
symbol of Tibetan nationhood for Tibetans both in Tibet and in exile. From 1642 until 1705 and from 1750 to the 1950s, the Dalai Lamas or their regents headed...
child, Titus, who was born in 1641, survived into adulthood. Saskia died in 1642, probably from tuberculosis. Rembrandt's drawings of her on her sick and...
Hobbes witnessed the destruction and brutality of the English Civil War from 1642 to 1651 between Parliamentarians and Royalists, which heavily influenced...
and Elizabethan theatre, refers to the theatre of England between 1558 and 1642. This is the style of the plays of William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe...
Events from the year 1642 in art. Isaack Gilsemans, the artist on Abel Tasman's expedition, produces the first European work of art made in New Zealand...
Sir Isaac Newton FRS (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian...
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