January 6 – The
Siege of Salses ends almost six months after it had started on June 9, 1639, with the French defenders surrendering to the Spanish attackers.
June 13 – The eruption of the
Mount Komagatake volcano takes place in Japan. Although the eruption causes few direct injuries, the heavy ashfall poisons local crops and causes the
Kan'ei Great Famine that causes more than 50,000 deaths from starvation.
July–September
July 9 –
John Punch, a servant of
Virginia planter Hugh Gwyn, is sentenced to a life of servitude after attempting to escape, making him the "first official slave in the English colonies" [2]
September 20 – The
Siege of Turin ends in Italy after almost four months with a victory by French and Piedmontese after having started on May 22, and the city is recaptured from Spain.
The end of the
Iberian Union of Spain and Portugal begins, as a revolution organized by the nobility and bourgeoisie causes
John IV of Portugal to be acclaimed as king, thus ending 60 years of
personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain, and the rule of the
House of Habsburg (also called the Philippine Dynasty). The Spanish Habsburgs do not recognize Portugal's new dynasty, the
House of Braganza, until the end of the
Portuguese Restoration War in
1668.
^Travels of Fray Sebastien Manrique 1629-1643: A Translation of the Itinerario de Las Missiones Orientales, Volume I: Arakan (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
^Elliott Horowitz (1989). "Coffee, Coffeehouses, and the Nocturnal Rituals of Early Modern Jewry". AJS Review. 14 (1). Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Association for Jewish Studies: 38.
JSTOR1486283.
^MacLeod, Catharine (2001). Painted ladies : women at the court of Charles II. London: National Portrait Gallery.
ISBN9781855143210.
^John William Robertson Scott (1949). The Countryman's Breakfast Poser and Townsman's Rural Remembrancer. Oxford University Press. p. 51.
January 6 – The
Siege of Salses ends almost six months after it had started on June 9, 1639, with the French defenders surrendering to the Spanish attackers.
June 13 – The eruption of the
Mount Komagatake volcano takes place in Japan. Although the eruption causes few direct injuries, the heavy ashfall poisons local crops and causes the
Kan'ei Great Famine that causes more than 50,000 deaths from starvation.
July–September
July 9 –
John Punch, a servant of
Virginia planter Hugh Gwyn, is sentenced to a life of servitude after attempting to escape, making him the "first official slave in the English colonies" [2]
September 20 – The
Siege of Turin ends in Italy after almost four months with a victory by French and Piedmontese after having started on May 22, and the city is recaptured from Spain.
The end of the
Iberian Union of Spain and Portugal begins, as a revolution organized by the nobility and bourgeoisie causes
John IV of Portugal to be acclaimed as king, thus ending 60 years of
personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain, and the rule of the
House of Habsburg (also called the Philippine Dynasty). The Spanish Habsburgs do not recognize Portugal's new dynasty, the
House of Braganza, until the end of the
Portuguese Restoration War in
1668.
^Travels of Fray Sebastien Manrique 1629-1643: A Translation of the Itinerario de Las Missiones Orientales, Volume I: Arakan (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
^Elliott Horowitz (1989). "Coffee, Coffeehouses, and the Nocturnal Rituals of Early Modern Jewry". AJS Review. 14 (1). Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Association for Jewish Studies: 38.
JSTOR1486283.
^MacLeod, Catharine (2001). Painted ladies : women at the court of Charles II. London: National Portrait Gallery.
ISBN9781855143210.
^John William Robertson Scott (1949). The Countryman's Breakfast Poser and Townsman's Rural Remembrancer. Oxford University Press. p. 51.