Historical Events
- Jan 23 Sir Thomas Fairfax takes Leeds for Parliamentarians in English Civil War
- Feb 25 Pavonia Massacre: Dutch US colonists kill 120 Algonquin Native Americans at Communipaw (New Jersey)
- Apr 27 Tirso de Molina's "Bellaco Sois, Gomez" premieres in Madrid
- May 10 Essex County, Massachusetts is founded, which contains the town of Salem in which the notorious witch-trials will occur in 1692
- May 13 Battle of Grantham: English parliamentary armies beat royalists
- May 13 Heavy earthquake strikes Santiago Chile; kills 1/3 of population
- May 14 Louis XIV becomes King of France aged 4
- May 19 Battle at Rocroi/Allersheim: French army destroys Spanish army
- May 19 Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut and New Harbor form the United Colonies of New England
- Jun 15 Able Tasman returns to Batavia after discovering Tasmania
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Famous People Born in 1643
- Feb 16 John Sharp, English Archbishop of York (1691-1714), born in Bradford, England (d. 1714)
- Feb 25 Ahmed II, 21st Sultan of Turkey (1691-95), born in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire (d. 1695) [or born Aug 1, 1642]
- Mar 25 Louis Moréri, French encylopedist (d. 1680)
- Mar 28 Jose Solana, Spanish composer and organist, born in Sieso, Huesca province (d. 1712)
- Apr 1 Christian Demelius, composer
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