Events in History in 1640

May 12 Revolt of Catalonia begins, an uprising against the Spanish King Philip IV in eastern Spain

Aug 28 Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn

Aug 29 English King Charles I signs a peace treaty with Scotland
Nov 3 English Long Parliament forms
Nov 11 Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, impeached by the House of Lords on the evidence of John Pym, and imprisoned in the Tower of London; he was later executed.
Dec 1 Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule following a revolution by Portuguese nobility; the Portuguese Restoration War begins and lasts until 1668 with recognition by Spain of the country's independence
Dec 9 Settler Hugh Bewitt banished from Mass colony when he declares himself to be free of original sin
Dec 15 Duke of Braganca crowned King Johan IV of Portugal
Dec 25 Pierre de Fermat writes to Marin Mersenne about Fermat's church thesis