1643
Calendar year
February 6: The Taj Mahal (pictured in 2009) is opened to the public.
May 19 : Battle of Rocroi
1643 (MDCXLIII ) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar , the 1643rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 643rd year of the 2nd millennium , the 43rd year of the 17th century , and the 4th year of the 1640s decade. As of the start of 1643, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
Events
January–March
April–June
July–September
October–December
Date unknown
Births
Mary of Jesus de León y Delgado
Louis Moréri
Gilbert Burnet
Bahadur Shah I
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
January–March
January 2 – Eleonora d'Este , Italian princess, later nun (d. 1722 )
January 4 (N.S.) – Sir Isaac Newton , English scientist (d. 1727 )[ 8]
January 7 (O.S.) – Sir Samuel Grimston, 3rd Baronet , English politician (d. 1700 )
January 9 – Eleonoro Pacello , Italian Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pula (1689–1695) (d. 1695 )
January 13 – Axel Wachtmeister, Count of Mälsåker , Swedish field marshal (d. 1699 )
January 25 – John Hayes , English politician (d. 1705 )
January 24 – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset , English poet and courtier (d. 1706 )
January 30 – Sir Francis Blundell, 3rd Baronet , Irish politician (d. 1707 )
February 6
February 15 – García Felipe de Legazpi y Velasco Altamirano y Albornoz , Spanish Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tlaxcala (d. 1706 )
February 25
March 4 – Fran Krsto Frankopan , Croatian baroque poet, nobleman and politician (d. 1671 )
March 6 – Pierre de Langle , French bishop and theologian (d. 1724 )
March 8 – Nabeshima Naoyuki , Japanese daimyō (d. 1725 )
March 17 – Fabrizio Spada , Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1717 )
March 23 – Mary of Jesus de León y Delgado , Spanish Dominican lay sister and mystic (d. 1731 )
March 25 – Louis Moréri , French priest and encyclopaedist (d. 1680 )
March 28 – Anthony Dopping , Anglican Bishop of Meath (d. 1697 )
March 29 – Louis Phélypeaux, comte de Pontchartrain (d. 1727 )
April–June
April 3 – Charles V, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1690 )
April 6 – Nehemiah Jewett , American colonial politician (d. 1720 )
April 30 – Johann Oswald Harms , German Baroque painter (d. 1708 )
May 3 – Georg Franck von Franckenau , German botanist (d. 1704 )
May 7 – Stephanus Van Cortlandt , first native-born mayor of New York City (d. 1700 )
May 8 – George Louis I, Count of Erbach-Erbach (1672–1693) (d. 1693 )
May 9 – Charles Kirkhoven, 1st Earl of Bellomont , Dutch-born Irish peer (d. 1683 )
May 10 – Gabriel Revel , French painter (d. 1712 )
May 29 – Patrick Lyon, 3rd Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne , Scottish peer and the son of John Lyon (d. 1695 )
July–September
July 3 – Johann Ernst von Thun , Tyrolean Catholic bishop (d. 1709 )
July 26 – Burchard de Volder , Dutch mathematician (d. 1709 )
July 28 – Antonio Tarsia , Italian composer (d. 1722 )
July 29 – Henri Jules, Prince of Condé (d. 1709 )
August 3 – Charles de la Rue , French Jesuit, Latin poet (d. 1725 )
August 16 – Mumtaz Shikoh , Mughal Empire emperor (d. 1647 )
August 18 – William Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Harzgerode (1670–1709) (d. 1709 )
August 21 – King Afonso VI of Portugal , King of Portugal and the Algarves (d. 1683 )
August 26 – Cardinal de Bouillon , French Catholic cardinal (d. 1715 )
September 3 – Lorenzo Bellini , Italian physician, anatomist (d. 1704 )
September 5 – Sir William Portman, 6th Baronet , English politician (d. 1690 )
September 6 – François-Joseph de Beaupoil de Sainte-Aulaire , French poet (d. 1742 )
September 14
September 17 – Francis Howard, 5th Baron Howard of Effingham , English peer (d. 1694 )
September 18 – Gilbert Burnet , Scottish philosopher and historian (d. 1715 )
September 27 – Solomon Stoddard , pastor of the Congregationalist Church in Northampton, Massachusetts (d. 1729 )
September 30 – Samuel Hoadly , American-born English schoolmaster, writer of educational books (d. 1705 )
October–December
October 5 – Zinat-un-Nissa , princess of the Mughal Empire (d. 1721 )
October 14 – Bahadur Shah I , Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1712 )
October 25 – Georg Ludwig Agricola , German composer (d. 1676 )
November 1 – John Strype , English historian and biographer (d. 1737 )
November 4 – Asano Nagatomo , Japanese daimyō who ruled the Akō Domain (d. 1675 )
November 16 – Jean Chardin , French jeweller, traveller (d. 1713 )
November 22 – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle , French explorer (d. 1687 )
November 23 – Eberhard von Danckelmann , Prussian politician (d. 1722 )
December 24 – Israel Kolmodin , Swedish hymnwriter and priest (d. 1709 )
December 28 – Salomon van Til , theologian of the Dutch Reformed Church (d. 1713 )
Date unknown
Deaths
Hong Taiji
Claudio Monteverdi
January 14 – John Bois , English scholar (b. 1560 )
January 20 – Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby , English noble (b. 1573 )
February 11 – Countess Palatine Anna Maria of Neuburg , Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg (b. 1575 )
February 15 – Countess Juliane of Nassau-Siegen , Landgravine of Hesse-kassel (b. 1587 )
February 25 – Marco da Gagliano , Italian composer (b. 1582 )
March 1
April 4 – Simon Episcopius , Dutch theologian (b. 1583 )
April 12
April 13 – Margherita Farnese , Benedictine nun (b. 1567 )
April 20 – Christoph Demantius , German composer (b. 1567 )
April 28
May 14 – King Louis XIII of France (b. 1601 )[ 10]
July 12 – François Duquesnoy , Flemish Baroque sculptor in Rome (b. 1597 )
July 25 – Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull , English statesman (b. 1584 )
August – Anne Hutchinson , English Puritan preacher (b. 1591 )
August 7 – Margaret of Brunswick-Lüneburg , German noble (b. 1573 )
August 22
September 15 – Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork , Irish politician (b. 1566 )
September 20 , at the Battle of Newbury:
September 21 – Emperor Hong Taiji of China (b. 1592 )
October 2 – Jean Chalette , French painter (b. 1581 )
October 29 – Brilliana, Lady Harley , English noble, letter writer and war heroine (b. 1598 )
November 3
November 14
November 15 – Tachibana Muneshige , Japanese samurai and soldier (b. 1567 )
November 17 – Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant , Marshal of France (b. 1602 )
November 29
December 8 – John Pym , English statesman (b. 1583 )[ 12]
December 10 – Herman Wrangel , Swedish soldier and politician (b. 1584 /1587 )
December 11
December 30 – Giovanni Baglione , Italian painter and historian of art (b. 1566 )
approx. date – Henry Glapthorne , English dramatist (b. 1610 )
date unknown
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