1641
| Years: 1638 1639 1640 – 1641 – 1642 1643 1644 | |
| Decades: 1610s 1620s 1630s – 1640s – 1650s 1660s 1670s | |
| Centuries: 16th century – 17th century – 18th century 1641 in topic: | |
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
Births
- March – Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester (d. 1711)
- August 5 – John Hathorne, American magistrate (d. 1717)
- October 5 – Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, mistress of Louis XIV of France (d. 1707)
- Pierre Allix, French protestant clergyman (d. 1717)
- Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian nobleman and polymath (d. 1693)
Deaths
- January 3 – Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomer
- May 12 – Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford (b. 1593)
- December 9 – Sir Anthony van Dyck, Dutch painter (b. 1599)
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