1641

align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1638 1639 1640 - 1641 - 1642 1643 1644

align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1610s 1620s 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s

align="center" | Centuries:
16th century - 17th century - 18th century

Events

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

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